The Supreme Court on June 15 declined to hear a challenge to the tariffs President Trump imposed on Chinese imports during his first term, leaving the duties intact and bringing a six-year legal fight to a close. The justices turned away the petition without comment in HMTX Industries v.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres made a one-day visit to Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, his first to the Haitian capital since July 2023, as gang violence has driven displacement to record highs and a new international force prepares to take the fight to the armed groups. The
The Senate on Tuesday narrowly turned back the latest attempt to force President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the conflict with Iran, falling short on a 47-48 vote days before Washington and Tehran are expected to sign a preliminary agreement to end the war. The measure, a
Drone strikes killed more than 1,000 civilians in Sudan during the first five months of this year, the United Nations said Monday, warning that the country's civil war is entering a deadlier phase as both sides turn increasingly to unmanned aircraft against populated areas. The figure, covering
The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1 percent on Tuesday, the highest level in more than three decades, pressing ahead with a campaign to tame inflation driven by the energy shock of the recent Middle East war. The quarter-point increase, from 0.75 percent, lifts
President Trump landed in France on Monday for the start of the Group of Seven summit carrying a freshly announced Iran agreement, a development that reordered the opening conversation among the world's wealthy democracies even as the deeper disputes between Washington and its allies went unresolved. For much
British commandos boarded and seized a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in the English Channel early Sunday, the first time the United Kingdom has led an operation against Moscow's so-called shadow fleet rather than backing an ally's. The vessel, the Smyrtos, was taken in a six-
President Trump said on Sunday that he will not support renewing a key government surveillance authority unless Congress also passes the SAVE America Act, his stalled elections overhaul, tying together two measures that have nothing to do with each other and complicating an already stalled effort to revive the spy
The United States and Iran reached an initial agreement on Sunday to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a breakthrough that, if it holds, would close out more than three months of fighting that killed thousands and convulsed the global economy. Pakistan, which mediated the talks, announced
Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released declassified material on Friday that her office says documents longstanding U.S. government funding for more than 120 biological laboratories in over 30 countries, including Ukraine, framing the disclosure as evidence of a program that officials hid from the public. The Office
A federal judge has ordered Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to drop his lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, ruling that he brought the case to retaliate against the platform for raising money for his opponent in this year's U.S. Senate race. U.S. District Judge
The United States and Iran signaled on Friday that they had reached the text of an agreement to end their months-long war, though the two sides differed over how close it was to being signed and what exactly it contained. Pakistan, which has mediated the talks, declared the matter
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