Trump says US military action against Iran not necessary 'at this point'
President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters that military action by the United States against Iran did not currently seem necessary.
November 09, 2026President Donald Trump on Monday told reporters that military action by the United States against Iran did not currently seem necessary.
November 09, 2026President Donald Trump's approval rating held near the lowest level of his political career, depressed by national concerns over rising prices that tanked
November 09, 2026How impeachment of a Cabinet secretary like Hegseth works
November 09, 2026Surprising midterm elections that create new majorities on Capitol Hill look to be revolutions in the days after they occur. Years later, they often appear to be more complex – and less significant.
November 09, 2026The White House aims to use talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials to persuade Moscow to agree to broader negotiations involving European officials
November 09, 2026Former U_S_ President Joe Biden writes in his White House memoir that Donald Trump has deeply damaged the country and world with an administration determined to “tear down institutions and inflame hatreds.”
November 09, 2026Congress returns to a changed Washington after Democrats trounced Republicans in the midterm elections
November 09, 2026Joe Biden says cancer will limit him from promoting his upcoming memoir
November 09, 2026China is willing to pursue stronger ties with Iran, China's special envoy to the Middle East Zhai Jun said in talks with Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran's
November 09, 2026Saudi Arabia has intercepted missiles targeting its capital and other regions
November 08, 2026President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was "only kidding" when he suggested UFC CEO Dana White could become his next White
November 08, 2026Schumer faces skepticism among some Democrats over majority leader role
November 07, 2026President Donald Trump's decision to elevate loyalist Stephen Miller to run his White House
November 08, 2026Qiulae Wong has been a politician for less than a year, but the 38-year-old could hold the balance of power in New Zealand's parliament after initial
November 08, 2026New Zealanders faced weeks of uncertainty on Sunday over who will govern the country after their general election, with the current
November 07, 2026Israeli President Isaac Herzog says he's giving opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition following elections on Oct. 27
November 07, 2026Building on a months-long naval blockade on Iran, the US military said on Saturday it is launching a task force to
November 07, 2026The U.S. midterm rout of President Donald Trump's stewardship doesn't mean the world trusts America again
November 07, 2026Washington made Moscow a pariah. Now a tanker of Russian diesel is headed for US shores
November 07, 2026US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has moved to tighten control over the State Department, telling senior officials in
November 07, 2026President Donald Trump says Stephen Miller is replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections
November 06, 2026President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that intelligence showed that Russian forces were planning new strikes against key targets and the Ukrainian military was braced for a
November 06, 2026Two top officials at the US Department of Justice resigned on Friday, accelerating an exodus of senior figures from the department following the
November 06, 2026Protesters have broken into a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam
November 06, 2026China's top legislature on Friday appointed 12 former provincial-level party chiefs and governors to the leadership ranks of the country's parliament and confirmed the
November 06, 2026Jason Reding Quiñones, who oversaw probes into past criminal investigations of US President Donald Trump as the top federal prosecutor in Miami,
November 06, 2026Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook's lawyer has asked the White House to address fairness and process concerns before she agrees to
November 05, 2026President Donald Trump has transformed the Supreme Court with a conservative supermajority but now faces a Democratic-led Senate ready to challenge his judicial picks
November 06, 2026Malaysia's attorney general has temporarily blocked former Prime Minister Najib Razak's transfer from prison to house arrest
November 06, 2026Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa says she is building a bipartisan administration after her stunning upset in the midterm elections
November 06, 2026Paraguayan President Santiago Peña resigned on Thursday following the collapse of a prominent digital lender to which he had former
November 05, 2026A Democrat has won a western Iowa legislative district despite suspending his campaign two months ago due to health issues
November 05, 2026‘Like a bolt from the blue’: Israel’s president shocked by Trump announcing end of aid
November 05, 2026Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has unveiled a budget aimed at making Canada less dependent on the United States as President Donald Trump’s trade war reshapes the allies’ economic relationship
November 05, 2026The Canadian government released its proposed budget on Thursday, the second by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
November 05, 2026Global stocks fell sharply on Thursday, weighed down by a deep selloff in semiconductor shares after weak earnings from Qualcomm and concerns that a
November 05, 2026Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is vowing that Democrats will not allow President Donald Trump to put “a right-winger” on the Supreme Court once they take power, raising the possibility that his party could block a presidential nominee if there were a vacancy in the next two years
November 05, 2026The Democratic midterm sweep cemented a new front in the battle for media audiences: livestreaming, where left-leaning
November 05, 2026Arabs around the world are celebrating Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's win of a U.S. Senate seat and delighting in his introduction of Arabic words and phrases to the American political lexicon
November 05, 2026Democrats made sweeping gains in state governments in the midterm elections, taking control of several legislatures and shifting the balance of power across battleground and historically Republican-leaning states
November 04, 2026Several major central banks have raised interest rates this week, though they appear at very different stages of the tightening
November 05, 2026Germany is proposing to set aside an extra €100 million ($113 million) to help restore Ukrainian water, energy and transport infrastructure and bolster resilience against
November 05, 2026With the US midterms over, Democrats are turning to what could become one of their most crowded and unpredictable presidential primaries in decades, a 2028
November 05, 2026President Donald Trump was publicly humbled by inflation in the midterm elections, as public anger over rising prices caused a blistering set of losses for Republicans
November 05, 2026Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told The Associated Press that she remains committed to returning to Bangladesh from exile in India in December
November 05, 2026President Donald Trump acknowledges the Iran war impacted the midterm elections but says he's not considering replacing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth despite voter dissatisfaction with it
November 04, 2026Europe's far-right politicians have begun to distance themselves from Donald Trump following the Democrats’
November 04, 2026From tariffs to oil prices, deregulation to health policy and the freight-train expansion of artificial intelligence, Democratic control of Congress
November 04, 2026New Zealanders vote on November 7 in an election dominated by the cost of living, housing, jobs, public services and how to deal with a more uncertain world.
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