More than 60% of U.S. mushrooms are grown in southeast Pennsylvania. But the Trump administration’s immigration policy and cuts to conservation funding and USDA staff have made the industry a politica...

Tom Homan promised a larger ICE crackdown in 2027 during a Doral speech — and the numbers he cited don't fully square with independent enforcement data.

A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advoca...

A UNICEF report shows how droughts and floods threaten access to food, water, and education for more than 25 million children. Central America and the Caribbean are the regions of greatest concern

In recent months, the eastern Central African Republic has been hit by several attacks attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan militia infamous for its massacres and mass abductions…

“The day of accountability has arrived for our own U.S. government and its governmental agencies,” attorney Antonio Romanucci told reporters Thursday after filing the lawsuits. “Our government is kill...

States will start to pay a larger share of the bill to run the food assistance program, as federal funding for operational costs shrinks.

Christa Pike, who has been on death row for more than 30 years for torturing and murdering a classmate, was on Wednesday set to be executed, but the lethal injections meant to kill her failed. Pike wa...

The Trump administration is shifting federal policy and dollars away from the “Housing First” approach that has been at the heart of federal homelessness policy.

DHS has tapped $20 million to pay for campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump.

Marine Le Pen, France's far-right National Rally party candidate, widened her lead in the second round of the 2027 presidential elections against both centre-right Édouard Philippe and hard-left Jean-...

Wisconsin voters are set to decide if three constitutional amendments should be approved on their ballots this fall.

President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.

The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the ...

The United States is required by law to supply Taiwan, which has a democratically elected president and legislature, with weapons for its defence under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.

Deniz Goktas is accused of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, "praising" crime and criminals, and "inciting hatred and hostility" with jokes about Islam. Nominally, Turkey is a secular count...

Families are finding it difficult to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and childcare, the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality analysis says.

International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump adminis...

A temporary court reprieve came after most structures had been taken apart at Hakoortna, a family livelihood and agricultural training site in the occupied West Bank.

Black and Arab communities in France confront deep‑rooted prejudices when they venture into outdoor sports. But the 'we're coming' movement is pushing back

The US Army is considering deploying medical, logistics and military police units, as the Pentagon keeps plans ready for possible action in Cuba, the US broadcast network CBS is reporting exclusively.

The eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal on Wednesday sparked a thousands-strong protest in Madrid Saturday, with demonstrators demanding greater tenant protection. Widespread anger at rising ho...

In the last month, the average price of diesel in Wisconsin has climbed from around $5.30 per gallon to more than $6.50 per gallon.

U.S. immigration authorities on Thursday deported a group of eight Somali men who’d been held for about a month at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Among them was Adam Abdullah, 31, who has no criminal record an...

President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress. The White House announced the move on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant serv...

Facing record-high diesel prices at home, the Republican president is making a move before the November midterms. The resulting price spiral will have a negative impact outside the US

A draft permit would require U.S. Steel's Minntac mine to meet Minnesota's wild rice sulfate standard for the first time but gives the company up to 45 years to comply.

The Trump administration has shifted the approach to civil rights enforcement in American schools. Previously, both Republican and Democratic administrations addressed systemic racism, recognizing tha...

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.

Police escorted Maricarmen Abascal from the apartment she had called home for more than seven decades. The case has reignited debate over Spain's housing crisis, rising rents and protections for long-...

Media reports say US withheld army chief's visa to pressure him into accepting a 90-day truce in Sudan's civil war.

Without receiving the required permits, it built a new pipeline to bypass the rupture and restarted Line 5’s operations.

Policy changes by the Trump administration are weakening an already struggling workforce that helps care for Wisconsin’s older adults and disabled population.

Leaders meeting at the UN General Assembly face a humanitarian polycrisis as the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the right to development is marked, while calls for a rethink of an obsolete cooper...

Migrants previously convicted by US courts have been imprisoned in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, Eswatini, over the past several months. Since being deported from the US, they have found themselves...

Wilber Garcés Pérez was moved back to a hospital after losing feeling on his left side, as new details emerge on his removal order and Austin's protests.

The Left party, led by Turkish-origin Elif Eralp, won Berlin, offering a contrast to the far right's wins in the east.

Since January 2025, the Trump administration has deported more than 25,000 people to so-called “third countries” – places that are not their countries of origin. Working with a team of 26 internationa...

Anti-ICE protesters gather and demand transparency at site where 28-year-old was shot in torso

US President Donald Trump said the planned 76-metre arch near Washington would double as a military complex with drones and snipers, though he gave no specific threat.

ICE is expanding roadside operations at rest stops and weigh stations as part of a broader federal crackdown on foreign-born commercial drivers.

Bloody May, student sit-ins and the squatter movement: Berlin has long been a hotbed for working-class organizing and radical left-wing politics.

New agreement with Denmark falls short of Trump’s previously stated goal of US 'ownership' of the island.

In a recent memo, the US government would no longer consider the unintentional killing of protected wildlife as unlawful.