SYDNEY The new scan of the Indian Ocean floor for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has searched nearly 31,000 square miles since January without finding any sign of the wreckage. But the company looking for the plane missing for more than four years said it is still determined. This comes despite earlier hopes that a 9,650-square-mile […]

WASHINGTON The porn actress alleging a sexual encounter with President Donald Trump is escalating her legal fight, suing the president for defamation. Stormy Daniels filed the complaint in federal court in New York on Monday. At issue is a tweet Trump made in which he dismissed a composite sketch that Daniels says depicted a man […]

TIJUANA, MEXICO U.S. border inspectors allowed some of the Central American asylum-seekers to enter the country for processing, ending a brief impasse over lack of space. Now, the migrants who crossed Mexico in a caravan may face a long legal path. U.S. Customs and Border Protection didn’t say how many caravan members were allowed in […]

WASHINGTON The U.S. government will take another 30 days to decide whether to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada, and Mexico, extending a period of uncertainty for businesses in those regions. The delay helps the U.S. avoid a potential trade war with allies as it prepares for tense […]

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said today it’s “disgraceful” that a list of questions that the special counsel investigating Russian election interference wants to ask him was “leaked” to the news media. The New York Times late Monday published the nearly four dozen questions given to Trump’s attorneys, covering Trump’s motivations for firing FBI Director James […]

MOSCOW Workers and activists marked May Day today with rallies to demand their government address labor issues. International Workers’ Day is a public holiday in many countries, though activities are restricted in some places, sometimes leading to confrontations. A look at some of the events around the world: Russia More than 100,000 people came out […]

NEW YORK Immigrants say President Donald Trump’s administration has become almost everything they feared, but while they rally across the United States on May Day, their focus is less on huge turnout today than on the first Tuesday in November. Marches and other demonstrations for labor and immigrant rights were planned from Florida to New […]