The U.S. has sanctioned Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian Supreme Court justice in charge of the criminal case of the right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of attempting a coup ...

In the U.K., a high court has ruled that the co-founder of the direct action group Palestine Action can challenge the home secretary’s decision to ban the group as a terrorist organization. Under the ...

Israel has released U.S. labor activist Chris Smalls and the Tunisian activist Hatem Aouini. They had been detained on Saturday with 19 others with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition when Israeli forces ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has admitted a new Trump plan to create savings accounts for newborns is actually a backdoor way to privatize Social Security. Bessent made the comment on Wednesday ...

President Trump has announced 25% tariffs on India and new penalties against India for purchasing Russian oil. Trump also announced a new trade deal with South Korea, setting the tariff rate at 15%.

Ukrainian officials say that Russian drones and missiles struck the capital Kyiv overnight, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens of others, including a 6-year-old boy. Russia’s attack ...

A Senate committee has advanced a bill banning stock trading by members of Congress, the president and the vice president. President Trump slammed the lone Republican who voted for the bill, Missouri ...

Harvard is prepared to pay up to a half-billion dollars to settle two federal lawsuits brought by the Trump administration. That’s according to The New York Times, which reports the emerging deal ...

On Capitol Hill, more than half of the Democratic caucus voted Wednesday to block $675 million in U.S. arms sales to Israel. Senator Bernie Sanders had introduced the measure, which ended up being ...

In California, immigration officials at San Francisco International Airport have detained a South Korean-born researcher and longtime permanent resident for the past week without explanation — and ...

The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to hold interest rates steady, defying pressure from President Trump, who visited the Fed last week to personally lobby for lower rates. In a rare move, two ...

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to rearrest Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil while the government appeals his release on bail.