Politics

In a momentous move that strikes a blow against Vladimir Putin, European leaders have given Ukraine candidate status, paving the way for the war-torn nation to join the EU. Nearly four months after Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky,…

Kaliningrad, a remote but strategically crucial enclave on the Baltic coast, is the centre of rising unrest and may soon be dragged into the Kremlin's conflict. After Lithuania forbade the entry of items subject to sanctions into…

In what were obvious indications that law enforcement is stepping up their investigation of associates of the former president, federal agents searched the home of a former top Justice Department official and seized records from important…

On Tuesday, the Senate made significant strides toward approving the first significant piece of federal gun safety legislation in a generation. The proposal still needs to pass two more crucial votes to end a filibuster and then for final…

To settle a Justice Department complaint accusing it of allowing landlords to engage in discriminatory advertising on its Facebook platform, Meta has agreed to make adjustments to its housing advertisement system. The Justice Department…

The Biden administration made a hint on Tuesday that it would create a proposed rule to set a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and other tobacco products, thus reducing the quantity of nicotine in items that are sold in the US. It is a…

Steve King, a former congressman from Iowa, stirred global controversy on Tuesday morning with a tweet that compared slavery to abortion. The criticism Mr King received was reminiscent of how Republicans and Democrats routinely criticised…

In the runoff vote on Tuesday, two Trump-backed candidates for congress fared poorly, adding to the argument that the state of Georgia is no longer under the former president's control. With the support of former President Donald Trump,…