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President Donald Trump is trying to jump-start efforts in Congress to overhaul the U.S. prison system and help more former inmates successfully re-enter society.

President Donald Trump surprised Robert Wilkie Friday by announcing he would nominate the acting secretary of Veterans Affairs to lead the agency.

A five-year $867 billion farm bill backed by the Trump administration was rejected in the U.S. House after GOP leaders were unable to quell a rebellion by a group of conservatives who are demanding

U.S. lawmakers urged the Trump administration not to walk away from talks on a new Nafta.

House Speaker Paul Ryan’s power is eroding just weeks after announcing he won’t seek re-election, threatening his ability keep the chamber’s restive Republicans united.

Justin Trudeau’s pipeline nightmare may be only getting started.

Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza for the entire Muslim holy month of Ramadan, President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi announced on Twitter.

Judge Aaron Persky says he has no regrets.

Cambridge Analytica, overwhelmed by a scandal over how it harvested data from Facebook to influence the last U.S. election, filed for bankruptcy in New York.

Kushner Cos. is nearing a deal with a unit of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. to salvage its investment in an over-leveraged office tower, according to two people familiar with the talks.

Croatia’s government should bring in more immigrants to staunch a plunge in the Adriatic nation’s population and tackle a "huge problem" for economic growth, the governor of the central bank said.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir lambasted his nation’s soldiers and police for robbing and killing civilians during a crime wave in the war-torn country that’s facing economic collapse.

Five Star leader Luigi Di Maio said Italy’s populist parties have yet to agree on a candidate for prime minister though most of the outstanding issues for his coalition pact with the League have been

Conservative lawmaker Kenneth Clarke, a pro-European rebel, said if lawmakers defeat Prime Minister Theresa May on Brexit it shouldn’t prompt an election.

The U.S. ambassador to Moscow is no longer scheduled to make a speech at Russia’s premier economic forum next week where he was to give welcoming remarks at a panel including billionaire Viktor

Economic cooperation has become competition, and companies are caught in the middle.

Italy’s populist parties say they have virtually completed a government program which has dropped a request for a 250-billion-euro writeoff from the European Central Bank and pledges tax cuts, pension

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The U.K. hasn’t put forward a plausible plan to prevent the emergence of a hard Irish border after Brexit, risking the country crashing out of the European Union without a deal, Irish Prime Minister