General Politics

Lawyers for rapper A$AP Rocky will make the defense case Friday at his Los Angeles trial, where he's charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm

An officer jumped from a moving sheriff's vessel to save an unresponsive man onboard a spinning fishing boat.

A high-profile sheriff in Michigan announced his bid to run for governor, replacing Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

First elected sheriff of Michigan's Genesee County in 2020, Chris Swanson’s announcement on Thursday marks his full leap into politics after speaking at the Democratic National Convention last August. The race is shaping up to be one of the most fiercely contested political battles of 2026.

Swanson first gained national attention in May 2020, just days after the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked nationwide...

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini because of the hundreds of undersea earthquakes that have shaken the resort island for nearly a week

An aircraft used by a state-owned Venezuelan natural gas company to evade U.S. sanctions and export control laws for the benefit of the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was seized in the Dominican Republic Thursday, authorities said.

The seizure of the Dassault Falcon 2000EX aircraft used by Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA), the sanctioned Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural-gas company, came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited the Caribbean nation for talks with its president.

"The seizure of this Venezuelan aircraft...

WhatsApp alleged last week that Paragon Solutions spyware was used to target users of the messaging app in two dozen countries.

Pictures and videos show the intensely coloured water flowing into an estuary, the Rio de la Plata.

Teammates of Jenni Hermoso have testified in a trial over a kiss between her and former football chief Luis Rubiales.

Scientists say it is unclear how many more earthquakes will come to the idyllic Greek island.

Militants in the mountains of north-eastern Somalia have become the beating heart of Islamic State in Africa.

The film by a Israeli-Palestinian group follows the fight over home demolitions by the Israeli army.

A very proud cat owner in Kansas City, Missouri, has trained her four felines to eat on designated shelves.

Some Michigan voters who either sat out the election, voted for a third-party candidate or voted for President Trump are now revisiting their decision after he proposed Tuesday that the United States "take over" the Gaza Strip, rebuild it and relocate Palestinians elsewhere.

In the town of Dearborn, Michigan, which has the largest Muslim population per capita in the country, 43% voted for President Trump in the 2024 election. Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris won 37% of the vote, substantially lower than the 68% former President Joe...

The U.S. Agency of International Development is expected to be reduced to about 290 workers of the more than 5,000 foreign service officers, civil servants and personal service contractors currently employed at the agency, according to two sources familiar with the plans.

Most of the approximately 3,000 Institutional Support Contractors have already been fired or furloughed. The status of the approximately 5,000 foreign service nationals serving around the world is not yet clear.

The bureaus of Humanitarian Assistance, Global Health and Management...

Many databases from the U.S. Census Bureau appeared to be unavailable to the public on Thursday, with users being told access was "forbidden" when attempting to download common datasets.

Several data experts told CNBC that they were receiving the same error message on files that are routinely available.

"My staff tried numerous economic releases, and we could not access them through Census.gov," said Maurine Haver, founder of Haver Analytics. The company is a leading global data provider, including to CNBC.

Data experts were able to download some...