It was quick and easy for President Trump to fulfill his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. With a stroke of his new presidential pen, he buried the massive Pacific free-trade agreement that the Obama administration had ...

Syria's government envoy and a rebel leader traded barbs as talks between the Mideast country's warring sides got underway in Kazakhstan on Monday in the first face-to-face meeting between the Damascus government and rebel factions fighting to ...

The chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court, who was presiding over the sweeping corruption case that ensnarled politicians and movers and shakers from across the country, died Thursday when the small plane he was traveling in crashed off the coast of ...

The chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court, who was presiding over the sweeping corruption case that ensnarled politicians and movers and shakers from across the country, died Thursday when the small plane he was traveling in crashed off the coast of ...

Nearly three years after Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over the Indian Ocean, Australia, China and Malaysia on Tuesday called off the underwater search, saying “no new information has been discovered” to solve what has become one of ...

A Turkish cargo plane crashed Monday in a residential area just outside the main airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 37 people on the ground and in the plane, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. The Boeing 747 crashed on approach to the Manas airport ...

Michelle Obama's farewell tour is coming to a close. The first lady made her final late-night TV appearance on "The Tonight Show" on Wednesday. While there was no "mom dancing" this time, there was plenty of gratitude as well as discussions of Obama's ...

A mentally disabled man attacked on a Facebook Live video was able to escape after a neighbor in the West Side apartment building threatened to call police because of the noise, authorities said Thursday as hate crime charges were filed. Two of the ...

The new Congress opened with a stumble Tuesday after the Republican majority's plan for gutting an independent ethics office drew a firestorm of criticism — including tweets of displeasure from President-elect Donald Trump — that forced lawmakers to ...

The new Congress opened with a stumble Tuesday after the Republican majority's plan for gutting an independent ethics office drew a firestorm of criticism — including tweets of displeasure from President-elect Donald Trump — that forced lawmakers to ...

House Republicans reversed course Tuesday amid a firestorm of criticism over their plans to gut a congressional ethics office. Republicans backed off the proposal that drew the ire of President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to "drain ...

They convened amidst unusual scrutiny, widespread protests and rafts of speculation about efforts to alter the outcome, but, in the end, the nation's 538 presidential electors mostly stuck to the script Monday, formally sealing Donald Trump's victory ...

Meeting for the first time since the U.S. presidential election, European Union members agreed Thursday to increase their spending on defense. President-elect Donald Trump's friendly overtures to an expansionist Russia and his statements casting doubt ...

As chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp., Rex Tillerson has led a vast energy juggernaut, roaming the globe in search of multibillion-dollar deals, working with despots as well as democrats. The brash Texas oilman has helped forge or supervise ...

China on Monday issued its strongest condemnation yet of President-elect Donald Trump, after he hinted his administration might toss aside four decades of U.S. policy recognizing Taiwan as part of one China. China's foreign ministry warned that any ...

Tensions between Donald Trump and U.S. intelligence officials boiled over Saturday as Trump's transition team mockingly compared a secret CIA assessment that Russia tried to sway the U.S. election in Trump's favor to the agency's historic misjudgments ...

Ever since he was sidelined by illness from his role as Cuba's leader in 2006, Fidel Castro loomed like a historical shadow. El barbudo (the bearded one), as he was known, was present in the occasional staged photograph or rambling newspaper editorial, ...

For Amalia Cortes, a loyal member of Cuba's “revolutionary” generation, there is no question that Fidel Castro helped transform the country for the better. “Of course I will be in the Plaza de la Revolución to say goodbye to our comandante,” said ...

The death of Fidel Castro at age 90 prompted an outpouring of grief in his Cuban homeland on Saturday while touching off joyful celebrations among exiled Cubans in Florida, dramatizing the polarizing legacy of the late revolutionary icon and political ...

Resisting calls by President Obama to accept Donald Trump's victory, tens of thousands of protesters — some too young to vote — took to the streets in cities across the country to protest that Trump “is not my president.'' During a second night of ...