South Korea’s ruling party has selected former labor minister Kim Moon-soo as its presidential candidate to take on opposition nominee Lee Jae-myung, who is leading opinion polls ahead of next month’s election.

The race to become the People Power Party’s candidate had narrowed down to Kim and former PPP leader Han Dong-hoon. Ex-acting ...Read more

The Little Leaguers warming up in a Union Park outfield craned their necks between practice swings Saturday morning to listen to the message shouted by a nearby crowd.

What they heard — the protest chants of an anti-Trump movement trying to grow its ranks in Chicago — was aimed not only at the White House, but anyone frustrated by the ...Read more

For the second time in a week, voters in a prominent U.S. ally angered by President Donald Trump punished conservatives and reelected a left-leaning incumbent.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was poised to win the largest victory for his center-left Labor Party since 1946, both in terms of two-party preferred and overall seat count....Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Five years ago, Heidy Sánchez Tejeda crossed the U.S. southern border.

Last week, she was deported to Cuba after she was arrested during an immigration interview in Tampa, separating her from her husband, Carlos Yuniel Valle, and their 1-year-old daughter, Kailyn.

On Friday, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., met privately with ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff feud with China is threatening to upend the lives of young Americans who have grown accustomed to fast fashion, TikTok videos and playing XBox.

Those perks were the result of close trade relations between the world’s two largest economies and now threaten a perfect storm for young consumers already...Read more

Singapore’s ruling party was on track to secure a convincing victory in Saturday’s election as voters worried about rising costs and a worsening global economic climate rallied behind incumbent Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in his first electoral test since taking office a year ago.

Official results from the nation’s elections department ...Read more

Donald Trump has gone from the presidency to the papacy.

With just days left before the start of the papal conclave — where a new leader of the Catholic Church will be selected — Trump took to his Truth Social platform to share an AI-generated image of himself dressed up as the pope. It shows him adorned in the traditional attire, complete...Read more

A jolt of staff upheaval this week made Marco Rubio the first person in 50 years to hold the top two national security jobs in the U.S. government, the culmination of a journey from his role as Donald Trump’s rival for the presidency to one of his most prominent aides.

Rubio’s ascent to both secretary of state and interim national security ...Read more

“The United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest ally and partner. … At the same time, they’re talking about working positively with Russia (and) appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying murderous dictator. … Make that make sense.”

I have thought a lot about what then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House made official Friday that President Donald Trump wants the first ever $1 trillion defense budget.

Yet Trump will not be able to increase defense spending at all above current levels — in fact it would decrease after accounting for inflation — unless a narrowly divided Congress sends him a reconciliation bill ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday called for cutting discretionary health spending by about 26% in fiscal 2026 and slashing medical research, public health and support service programs.

The White House’s “skinny budget” request, released by the Office of Management and Budget, seeks $93.8 billion for the Department of ...Read more

President Donald Trump issued a late-night executive order Thursday calling for an end to government dollars for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the taxpayer-backed entity that provides funding to public media outlets the president described as "left wing propaganda."

But Trump's ongoing effort to cut federal funding of public media ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Four Democratic members of Congress removed their names as original co-sponsors of the articles of impeachment that Michigan U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced this week targeting President Donald Trump.

The lawmakers' offices indicated that Thanedar's staff had not followed up with their bosses to confirm that they wanted to be ...Read more

President Donald Trump has set his sights on the pharmaceutical industry to shoulder part of the cost of his tax cuts, pressing congressional Republicans to force drugmakers to accept lower prices on prescriptions covered by Medicaid.

Trump asked House Republicans to mandate the government health program for low-income and disabled Americans ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is proposing steep cuts to domestic and foreign aid spending for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 coupled with hefty increases for defense and border security, with the help of GOP lawmakers already writing separate legislation outside of the annual appropriations process.

The “skinny” version of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget looks to end the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and Gateway space station central to NASA’s existing Artemis program — but only after a successful moon landing as the nation remains in a race with China.

A preliminary overview of the White House’s planned 2026 discretionary budget ...Read more

South Korea’s former opposition leader Lee Jae-myung still remains the frontrunner for now in a presidential election that will struggle to heal the political divide in a nation racked by leadership chaos in recent months.

As the dust settles on a flurry of resignations, leadership changes and court rulings this week, Lee likely continues to ...Read more