President Joe Biden, a self-described βcar guy,β³ often promises to lead by example on climate change by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling U.S. government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles. But efforts to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the fleet have lagged.
The British government on Monday dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners, part of a package of unfunded cuts unveiled only days ago that sparked turmoil on financial markets and sent the pound to record lows.
When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying grain stolen by Russia and urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship.
Panic at an Indonesian soccer match after police fired tear gas to stop brawls left 129 dead, mostly trampled to death, police said Sunday.
A Maryland anesthesiologist and her U.S. Army doctor spouse have been charged with trying to help Russia in its war against Ukraine with medical records that they thought Moscow could exploit, the U.S. Attorneyβs Office in Maryland said Thursday.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that he believes his party now has a β50-50 shotβ of getting the chamber back less than six weeks away from the midterm elections.
Britainβs Royal Mint has unveiled the first coins to feature the portrait of King Charles III. Britons will begin to see Charlesβ image in their change from around December, as 50-pence coins depicting him gradually enter circulation.
Hurricane Ian was over southwest Florida for only a few hours. It will take months to clean up all the damage. Maybe longer. And some of the destruction canβt be cleaned up at all.
Long lines of Russians trying to escape being called up to fight in Ukraine continued to clog highways out of the country on Wednesday, and Moscow reportedly set up draft offices at borders to intercept some of them.
The death certificate of the late Queen Elizabeth II has been revealed.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris capped her four-day trip to Asia with a stop Thursday at the Demilitarized Zone dividing the Korean Peninsula as she emphasized the βironcladβ U.S. commitment to the security of its Asian allies.
The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier who went missing this week after falling from the worldβs eighth-highest mountain was recovered Wednesday and transported to Nepalβs capital.
Hurricane Ian left a path of destruction in southwest Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, cutting off the only bridge to a barrier island and knocking out power to 2.5 million people as it dumped rain across the peninsula on Thursday.
With less than two months until the midterm elections, progressive Democrats are facing a test of their power.
The head of a national political action committee working to elect women who support abortion rights visited North Carolina on Tuesday, joining candidates she says must win this fall to block Republican attempts to enact more restrictions.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, its neighbors said, a day before U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is to visit South Korea.
A Spanish judge on Tuesday approved a trial for Colombian pop singer Shakira on charges of tax fraud.
NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.
A strengthening Hurricane Ianβs rain and winds lashed Cubaβs western tip, where authorities have evacuated 50,000 people, as it became a major Category 3 storm early Tuesday.
A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia Monday, killing 13 people, including seven children, and wounding 21 others.
