Bill Gates announced on Monday that the Bill Gates Foundation will commit $1.2 billion over the next four years to support the global campaign to eradicate polio. Gates made the announcement speaking at the Abu Dhabi Financial Week....

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said negotiators remain split over territorial concessions in a U.S.-brokered peace plan, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing a phone interview with Zelenskyy.

The trial of a dual national holding European citizenship has begun in Iran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, saying they were indicted for "intelligence cooperation and espionage in favor of the Zionist regime (Israel)."According to the Alborz...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) sent out an email to all medical providers warning them not to share any data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for immigration purposes.

IBM is in advanced talks to acquire data infrastructure company Confluent for about $11 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani offered advice to illegal migrants on how to evade ICE in a video message Sunday - urging them to "stand up" to federal agents and "know your rights."

South Carolina's Democratic Party is turning to social media influencers as it campaigns to remain the first state on the party's 2028 presidential primary calendar, a move that reflects both the shifting media landscape and intensifying competition among early state...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the administration's expanding investigation into a massive Minnesota welfare fraud scheme, allegedly carried out mainly by Somalis living in the state...

The chair of Ben & Jerry's independent board said she has no plans to resign as Unilever pressures her ahead of Monday's public spinoff of its Magnum ice cream division, which will include the Vermont-based brand.

House Democrats on Sunday night released the full legislative text of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, a sweeping, multi-division measure that sets military policy, procurement authority, and national security priorities for the coming year.The...

A federal judge has dealt a setback to Justice Department efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, temporarily barring prosecutors from using evidence they had relied on when they initially secured criminal charges.

Talks with U.S. representatives on a peace plan for Ukraine have been constructive but not easy, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday ahead of his planned consultations with European leaders in coming days.

A video of a U.S. military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows "nothing remarkable," the Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday.

It is not a teenage dream, it's Instagram official: pop star Katy Perry has posted a photograph of herself cuddling with Canada's former prime minister, as secure a confirmation as any that the celebrities are dating.

It has been nearly three decades since a Democrat held the mayor's office in Miami, a span of futility the party is hoping to reverse during a special runoff election this week in one of the last electoral showdowns before next year's midterms.

The United States can enforce immigration laws while also treating people humanely, as it is a "false narrative" that Americans must choose between the rule of law and compassion, Sen. John Curtis said Sunday.

Conservative political commentator and podcaster Tim Pool said nobody was hurt despite his West Virginia home being fired upon late Friday night. Pool, who has a large online following, said Saturday on X that a vehicle approached his property and "opened fire."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday the U.S. is having a "very strong holiday season," noting that consumer spending has held up "across the income cohort.""There is nothing to say that there are two dolls instead of 30 dolls," Bessent said on CBS's "Face the...

The commander of sea-drone operations for Ukraine's military intelligence agency says more complex strikes against Russian forces are expected next year, after Kyiv's uncrewed fleet succeeded in curbing the movements of Russia's once-dominant Black Sea navy.In an interview...

Authorities hunted Saturday for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall."We would prefer that he surrender himself peaceably," St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said in a statement, "but...

The Federal Reserve meeting next week is expected to be one of its most contentious in years, and investors are focused on how divided policymakers are over an expected interest-rate cut and what Chair Jerome Powell signals about the path ahead.Five of the 12 voting members...

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster site's protective shield no longer can confine radioactive waste due to damage inflicted by a Russian drone strike earlier this year, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.In a statement Friday, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said its experts...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he had threatened Beijing with tariffs during his state visit to China if there was no action taken to reduce the country's ever-widening trade deficit with the European Union.During Macron's visit earlier in December, he urged China to...

Police body cameras equipped with artificial intelligence have been trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a "high risk" watch list in the Canadian city of Edmonton, a live test of whether facial recognition technology shunned as too intrusive could have a...

Alleged drug traffickers killed by the U.S. military in a Sept. 2 strike were en route to rendezvous with a larger vessel bound for Suriname, the admiral who oversaw the operation told lawmakers Thursday, two sources familiar with his remarks told CNN.