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Governor Phil Murphy, who once called his predecessor’s back-channel financing of New Jersey’s $300 million statehouse renovation “an insult and an exercise in arrogance,” now says the project is

Washington (AP) -- Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, met with a Russian oligarch and discussed U.S.-Russia relations just 11 days before Trump was inaugurated as president, according to a

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he aims to see out the rest of his four-year term after the opposition called a vote of no-confidence in his scandal-plagued administration. Bloomberg's Maria

President Donald Trump pivoted from Thursday's cancellation of a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying the meeting still may happen. Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli reports on

The world’s largest oil exporter just made quite a policy swerve. Within six weeks, Saudi Arabia has gone from advocating higher prices to trying to stop the rally at $80 a barrel.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government released interim results for the 2017 fiscal year that it says shows are “broadly” in line with its deficit projections.

President Donald Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claim that an FBI informant who contacted advisers to his 2016 campaign was a political “spy,” a day after Justice Department officials briefed

Terry Haines, head of political analysis at Evercore ISI, discusses the foreign policy implications of the cancelled meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. He

President Vladimir Putin scored a major victory by luring leaders from China, Japan and France to his annual economic showcase. But even with the most powerful lineup ever, the conversation kept

President Donald Trump says his June historic summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un may be back on and could be extended following “very productive” talks between the two countries.

George Mitchell, former U.S. Senate majority leader and special envoy, discusses the cancellation of a scheduled meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the

When a European Union official, summing up the state of Brexit talks on Thursday, described many of the U.K.’s ideas as “fantasy,” it maintained a strategy of dismissing Britain’s approach that hasn’t

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is taking to social media to defend his economic record, denying his administration manipulated national debt levels and warning the new government against

The world’s top oil trader said it will be near impossible to avoid U.S. sanctions on Iran, suggesting Donald Trump’s attack on OPEC’s third-largest producer may have a bigger impact on the global

With just a month until elections, shopkeepers at Turkey’s biggest bazaar say they’re seeing a jump in demand for gold coins.

Ciudadanos, the centrist party that holds the balance of power in the Spanish Parliament, said it’s ready to back a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy unless he calls a snap

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The number of white-collar prosecutions is on track to hit a 20-year low under President Donald Trump, after reaching a high in 2011 during the Barack Obama administration, according to a nonprofit

After championing the cause for staying in the European Union, Scotland’s nationalists are reigniting their effort to leave the U.K. with plans for a new currency, economic regime and an open door for