By AFPUS President Joe Biden on Monday joined Threads, Meta's social media rival to Elon Musk's X, just days after the White House blasted the tech baron for pushing anti-Semitism."Folks, it's President Biden," said his first post, which he made on h...

By AFPUS President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed at their first summit in a year on Wednesday to restore military communications between the two countries, even as Biden went off script by saying he still considered Xi a "dictator...

Stocks rose Friday after data showed US job growth cooled in October, easing concerns about further interest rate hikes.Oil prices fell on profit taking despite a softer dollar, which usually boosts demand for crude. Gold prices climbed.While the 150...

Talks are being held on a "very significant" pause in the Middle East conflict to win the release of dozens of hostages taken by Palestinian militant group Hamas, a senior White House official said Friday."It is something that is under a very serious...

The US economy is contending with a wave of union activism unseen in decades as organized labor seizes a rare opportunity to play hardball in a tight employment market.Sectors experiencing unrest include automobiles, health care, restaurants, defense...

Brazil's president announced on Friday that he will partially veto a bill restricting Indigenous groups' claims to ancestral lands, overriding Congress's recent approval of the legislation.President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will veto a core stipulat...

China's top diplomat Wang Yi said Saturday that Washington should "play a constructive and responsible role" in the Israel-Gaza conflict, during a phone call with his US counterpart Antony Blinken."The United States should practically play a construc...

The European Union on Saturday "unequivocally" condemned attacks by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israel and called for an immediate stop to the violence.It came after a barrage of rockets was fired and fighters from the Palestinian enclave infiltra...

By AFPLawmakers screamed and bickered in a raucous session Tuesday that eventually yielded to a stunned silence: for the first time in US history the House of Representatives had removed its own speaker.Kevin McCarthy fell victim to a rebellion by a...

By AFPMigrants were stranded in northern Mexico's harsh desert after the freight train they were riding on halted for 24 hours, though they were trundling toward the border again on Saturday.Around 1,800 people, mostly Venezuelans and Central America...

Federal prosecutors charged powerful US Senator Robert Menendez on Friday with bribery and extortion, saying gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash had been found at the high-ranking Democrat's home.In one of several allegations, the...

The US state of California sued five of the world's largest oil companies on Friday, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and misled the public by minimizing the risks from fossil fuels, The New York Times reported.It follows nume...