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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s July summit in Helsinki was largely dominated by discussion of the crisis in Syria and Iran’s role in the conflict, according to a U.S.

Imran Khan won a lawmaker vote on Friday to secure Pakistan’s premiership, promising to probe the nation’s soaring debt and start a “ruthless accountability” program.

Jurors at the fraud trial of Paul Manafort ended their first day of deliberations by asking the judge the central question at the heart of every criminal trial -- what is reasonable doubt?

President Donald Trump said Thursday that American farmers are starting to prosper. But recent data tell a different story.

The percentage of women running in Brazil’s October election is the smallest in eight years, and barely above what’s required by law.

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced the creation of a group responsible for ramping up economic and political pressure on Iran now that President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the 2015

The Trump administration is pushing in court for unfettered public access to blueprints for making guns with 3-D printers even after the president tweeted that they don’t "seem to make much sense."

Right-wing provocateur Alex Jones has had programming knocked off Facebook, Google and other online platforms after it was deemed hate speech. Now the operators of a Texas radio station in his Texas

In another example of the unpredictable nature of Brazil’s presidential race, a senator who describes herself as a center-right liberal is the vice-presidential pick of a left-winger who sends shivers

The Republican-led Senate unanimously adopted a resolution saying the press “is not the enemy of the people” and instead plays a “vital and indispensable” role to inform the electorate, an indirect

Lawrence Kudlow, White House economic adviser, comments on the state of the U.S. economy during a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump. (Source: Bloomberg)

(AP) -- Aretha Franklin, who was born and rose to fame during the segregation era and went on to sing at the inauguration of the first black president, often used her talent, fortune and platform to

Senators of both parties on Thursday accused the Trump administration of losing track of some migrant children taken into the government’s custody, rejecting U.S. officials’ denials.

President Donald Trump prodded China to offer more at the bargaining table as the two countries prepared for their first major negotiation in more than two months in an effort to head off an all-out

Arne Duncan, former U.S. Education Secretary under President Obama and author of "How Schools Work," discusses his concerns about education in America. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: Balance of

Bill Gavin, former FBI assistant director, comments on President Donald Trump revoking former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin and Shery Ahn on

The Trump administration said it’s willing to send migrant children separated from their parents during a border crossing crackdown back to their native countries, but doesn’t want parents who’ve been

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump offered former aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman $15,000 a month to work for the president’s 2020 campaign after she was fired from the White House, according to

The fate of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, is in the hands of 12 jurors in Alexandria, Virginia. After a trial that began July 31, the jury began deliberating