U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns about the result of an agreement intended to end the war with Iran.
The U.S. government has slapped additional sanctions on Cuban companies that are expected to spook foreign investors and deepen a severe economic crisis.
Vice President JD Vance says peace talks with Iran created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” to end the war that began at the end of February.
Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a state of emergency to empower the military to remove road blockades.
Observers are calling Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul on the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution while the grandson of former President Raúl Castro says in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward.
President Donald Trump believes that winning a second term in 2024 instead of 2020 has allowed him to return to the White House even more emboldened.
Vice President JD Vance has embraced the role of being the chief defender of the agreement he and President Donald Trump signed with Iran over the weekend.
Taiwan's top diplomat in the U.S. says the island needs American weapons to bolster its self-defense against the growing threat from China.
The mother of Cape Verde star goalkeeper Vozinha has been granted a visa to enter the United States in time for her 40-year-old son’s next World Cup match.
The Trump administration is pushing back on complaints from Iran’s national team that it was forced to leave the U.S. immediately after its first World Cup match instead of having a day to recover in a hotel, saying that was the plan for the team all along.
The tanker disabled by the American military while trying to run the U.S. blockade of Iran had dismissed nearly 60 verbal warnings as well as other shows of force before being fired upon.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. is close to signing a deal with Iran to wind down the war, with a memorandum of understanding to be signed in Europe as soon as this weekend.
The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people from Ebola-hit countries in Africa.
Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba.
The U.S. military says it has carried out strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.
Senators are warning that a key U.S. surveillance authority could expire this week after bipartisan opposition to President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence community derailed an extension effort.
Cuba’s government says it is open to offering the management of the island's hotels to Cubans at home and abroad.
President Donald Trump is keeping open the possibility of speaking directly with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te— even after Beijing has publicly urged him not to.
President Donald Trump insists he's comfortable with the current holding pattern in the Iran war.
The House approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to seek to end the war.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is still in discussions with several countries to resettle more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has taken a turn in the White House briefing room.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face more questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's optimistic about the potential for a resumption in nuclear talks with Iran despite a shaky ceasefire in the war that's looking increasingly in doubt.
The State Department plans to slash the number of U.S. embassies and consulates in Africa that can process visas for foreigners seeking to come to the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump says Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after he talked with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with the Lebanon-militant group through mediators.
Hundreds of youths in the Kenyan town of Nanyuki have demonstrated against an Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base.
The top U.S. commander in Latin America has met with Cuban military leaders in a “brief exchange on operational security matters” near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay.
Israeli troops have entered a southern Lebanese village, pushing deeper into the country amid ongoing conflict.
A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing it for major renovations.
A court in Kenya has suspended a U.S. plan to establish a quarantine facility for Americans exposed to a rare Ebola virus in northeastern Congo.
President Vladimir Putin is facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians and appears ready to change the narrative around the conflict.
The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics.
U.S. forces have carried out new defensive strikes on an Iran military facility after downing Iranian attack drones.
President Donald Trump insists a peace deal is close on the 88th day of the Iran war.
Ukraine’s air force says Russia launched over 100 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight.
Australia, India, Japan and the United States have agreed new initiatives for maritime security, critical minerals, port infrastructure, and energy security to boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region amid concerns about China's influence.
President Donald Trump’s emerging deal to end the Iran war is drawing heavy criticism from some fellow Republicans.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
President Donald Trump says a deal with Iran, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated.”.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in India ahead of a meeting next week with his counterparts from India, Australia, and Japan, members of the Indo-Pacific strategic alliance known as the Quad.
Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Trump’s director of national intelligence, citing her husband's battle with cancer.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “slight progress” has been made during talks with Iran.
NATO allies and defense officials have expressed bewilderment at U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland.
The United States has sanctioned Tanzania’s police chief and barred him from entering the U.S., citing alleged human rights violations committed by the police force.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio already faced a difficult task in soothing NATO allies anxious about President Donald Trump's often-abrupt announcements.
President Donald Trump has stirred confusion by saying the U.S. will send an additional 5,000 American troops to Poland.
President Donald Trump on Thursday said past U_S_ presidents have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades, but “it looks like I’ll be the one that does it.”.
The U.S. indictment of former Cuban leader Raúl Castro is pushing U.S. relations with the communist-run island to the foreground.
Federal prosecutors have announced charges against former Cuban President Raúl Castro in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro with ordering the 1996 shootdown of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles, a major escalation of pressure by the Trump administration on the socialist government.
Healthcare workers in eastern Congo say they are underprotected and undertrained as a rare Ebola virus spreads rapidly in one of the world’s most remote and vulnerable places.
In New Delhi, some auto-rickshaws are now displaying images of U_S_ President Donald Trump with the slogan “Happy Birthday America!”.
The earliest signals of a presidential race normally involve such subtle positioning from candidates that it’s become known as the “shadow primary.”.
Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel this week to a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Sweden, where U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Europe coupled with President Donald Trump’s often inconsistent stance on the alliance have created concern.
An Iranian family that’s lived in the United States for a decade is demanding their release from immigration detention after they were arrested due to a relative’s role in the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis.
President Donald Trump says he’s not yet made a decision on whether a major sale of U.S. arms to Taiwan can move forward following his three-day visit to China.
President Donald Trump and several top administration officials are joining with a cast of mostly conservative Christian clergy this Sunday for a prayer gathering.
China’s Xi Jinping has warned President Donald Trump that their two countries could clash over Taiwan if the issue is not handled properly.
President Donald Trump is downplaying differences with President Xi Jinping over the U.S. conflict in Iran as he heads to Beijing for a high-stakes summit with the Chinese leader.
President Donald Trump has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan in his second term.
President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged European allies to move beyond rhetoric and take concrete action against Iran, even as he sought to repair strained ties with Italy and the Vatican.
In his first year as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV seems driven not by the dramatic gesture or tensions that often fueled the papacy of his predecessor, but by a calm, persistent zeal to preach the Gospel and emphasize community and harmony.
The U.S. military says its forces fired on and disabled two Iranian oil tankers after exchanging fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz overnight.
Officials say the U_S_ isn't looking at imminent military action against Havana despite President Donald Trump’s threats that “Cuba is next.”.
The U_S_ military said Thursday that it intercepted Iranian attacks on three Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz and “targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U_S_ forces.”.
The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
In 24 hours, the Trump administration’s stance on the Iran war has pinballed from declarations that a tenuous ceasefire was holding and military operations were over to new threats of bombing the Islamic Republic.
A U.S. fighter jet on Wednesday fired on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, the U.S. military said.
China’s diplomatic role in the Iran war has come into sharper focus after talks between Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers on Wednesday, days before U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
White House officials are renewing calls on China to use its influence with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States and its Gulf allies have proposed a U.N. resolution threatening with sanctions or other measures if it doesn’t halt attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, stop imposing “illegal tolls” and disclose the placement of all mines to allow freedom of navigation.
President Donald Trump says he has paused the U.S. effort to guide stranded commercial vessels from the Strait of Hormuz to finalize a deal with Iran to end the war.
President Donald Trump says he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz to allow time for a deal to end the Iran war, but that the American forces’ blockade of Iranian ports would remain in place.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome and Vatican City this week in a bid to ease rising tensions between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV over U.S. policies, particularly the Iran war.
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te says he has arrived in Eswatini, Taiwan’s only diplomatic ally in Africa, despite flight challenges reportedly due to Chinese pressure.
A former Miami congressman and close friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been convicted in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela’s socialist government during the first Trump administration.
The U.S. State Department accused China of violating Panama’s sovereignty over a port dispute in the Central American nation, triggering another fierce back-and-forth on Wednesday as the Chinese government called the Trump administration hypocritical.
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says the majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is still believed to be at its Isfahan nuclear complex.
Ron DeSantis is back in the national spotlight as he pushes for a new congressional map in Florida.
Iran has offered to end its control over the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade and ends the war.
Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear program.
Four candidates vying to lead the United Nations have spent hours being grilled about their views on issues from restoring global peace to ending escalating poverty.
