Politics

Austria’s government coalition talks fell apart Friday after one of the three centrist parties involved quit the negotiations, undermining an alliance to block the rise of the far right. The...

WASHINGTON — The new Congress will begin Friday, ushering in a tiny House Republican majority to tackle enormous tasks in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term, from keeping...

LONDON — A British minister said Friday that Elon Musk should focus on American politics rather than repeatedly criticizing the Labour government. The X owner and key Donald Trump ally...

WASHINGTON — On Feb. 15, 1951, Pvt. Bruno R. Orig was returning from a mission when he found his fellow soldiers under attack in what’s now known as the Battle...

France and Germany’s top diplomats will travel to Syria on Friday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced, and meet with the leader of rebel group HTS. The trip to Damascus...

60 years after Black Americans gained the right to vote in the United States through the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Senator Tim Scott has made history, becoming the longest-serving...

PARIS  —  For France’s moderate left, it looks like now or never. The Socialist party — less extreme than the rest of the fragile left-wing alliance that was cobbled together...

The State Department reportedly notified Congress last month that it plans to shuffle staffers and money from the controversial and now-shuttered Global Engagement Center to a new office aimed at...

President-elect Trump announced several appointments to his administration Thursday, including the team that will work with his nominee for the U.S. Treasury, Scott Bessent. In a post on Truth Social,...

A federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a blow to President Biden’s Federal Communications Commission, striking down the agency’s hard-fought and long-debated open internet rules. The FCC had sought to...