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President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget proposal will again call for eliminating funding for the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, according to a senior government official familiar with the plan.

House and Senate staff are working on a stopgap funding bill that would keep the government operating through March 23, though Republican leaders haven’t yet made a final decision on the plan,

As Syria’s seven-year civil war drags on, no medical or food supplies have reached besieged populations in the country since November, according to a top UN official.

Sergei Naryshkin visited the U.S. last week for discussions on the fight against terrorism, according to the Russian embassy in Washington.

Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli reports on the latest from the Republican retreat in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. He speaks with Bloomberg's Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Markets: European Close."

A classified memo becomes the focus of Republican efforts to undermine the Mueller investigation.

The Republican lawmaker central to passing an infrastructure bill said the key may be getting his GOP colleagues to set aside years of opposition and embrace raising the tax on gasoline.

President Donald Trump isn’t sure whether he needed the help of Republican party leaders to win the presidency.

Prime Minister Theresa May backed Brexit Minister Steve Baker after he cast doubt on the professionalism of civil servants for the second time in a week, sparking a backlash from lawmakers.

Tanzanian President John Magufuli said the country’s judiciary needs to reform as he accused some judges and other law enforcement agency officials of being corrupt.

Washington (AP) -- The Trump administration on Thursday accused Syrian President Bashar Assad's government of producing and using "new kinds of weapons" to deliver deadly chemicals despite committing

President Donald Trump extolled his own performance in a speech to Republican lawmakers on Thursday and suggested he could have won office without the party’s leaders.

Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos, the longtime frontrunner to become the next vice president of the European Central Bank, is facing some resistance to his candidacy in the European

The Harvard-educated historian and economist who’ll run Nafta negotiations for Mexico if Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins in July said that the deal is a valuable part of the nation’s economy and she

So that’s what was in the box.

President Donald Trump on Friday accused top leaders at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department of politicizing investigations ahead of the release of a Republican memo that argues

Brazilian policy makers this week got another stark reminder of how pension spending is bleeding public accounts on the eve of a vote aimed at curbing those layouts.

U.S. politics are in turmoil over “the memo,” a document few have read.

An armed group in the Central African Republic said it will allow some state officials to return to the territory it controls in the northeast.