US President Joe Biden has urged pro-Palestinian protesters on university campuses to uphold the rule of law.
"We are a civil society, and order must prevail," Biden said from the White House, in his first direct remarks about a wave of student (...)
China launched an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step forward for the country's ambitious space program.
The Chang'e-6 probe – China's most (...)
Hundreds of police officers in riot gear have cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Police moved in before dawn on Thursday after ordering more than 1,000 protesters to leave the area.
The officers (...)
Hundreds of police officers have raided Columbia University in New York City to disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who earlier took over a building on campus.
Dramatic footage showed police climbing a ladder to enter Hamilton Hall and remove (...)
New York City's Columbia University has begun suspending students involved in a pro-Palestinian protest on campus after they defied a deadline to disperse.
College leaders earlier warned those who failed to disband from the two-week encampment by (...)
Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University have escalated their protest over the war in Gaza by occupying an academic building.
Activists at the university in New York City seized Hamilton Hall early on Tuesday, barricading (...)
‐At dawn on Wednesday 17 April, a small group of students pitched their tents at Columbia University, demonstrating against Israeli military action in Gaza and calling on their university to stop doing business with companies they see as supporting (...)
The leader of the US House of Representatives was heckled in a tense visit to Columbia University as protests against the war in Gaza continue to spread across US campuses.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Columbia officials had lost (...)
US President Joe Biden has signed a $95bn (£76bn) package of aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
"It's going to make America safer, it's going to make the world safer," he said after signing the bill into law.
The president said the US would "right (...)
In a slick video marking National Security Education Day, China's top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere.
As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion (...)
TikTok said a potential ban on its app in the US would "trample the free speech" of 170 million Americans.
The US House of Representatives voted on Saturday to ban TikTok if the app's owner does not cut its ties with China.
The legislation was part (...)
On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence that straddles this stretch of the US-Mexico border.
On her side, plastic tables were piled with apples, (...)
Canadian police said the heist is not just about gold, but "how gold turns into guns"
The arrests that followed a "sensational" gold heist have shed light on the illegal gun trade between the US and Canada.
Thousands of gold bars worth C$20m (...)
After months of delay, the House of Representatives is due to vote on tens of billions of dollars in US military aid for Ukraine and Israel.
Both measures have vocal opponents in Congress, and their hopes of passage have hinged on a fragile (...)
A 40-year-old New Yorker did not expect to report to jury duty this week and come face to face with Donald Trump.
Yet he found himself in the first batch of 96 prospective jurors for the former US president's historic criminal trial.
He breezily (...)
Amid ever increasing demand for electricity, artificial intelligence (AI) is now being used to help prevent power cuts.
"I woke up in the middle of the night very, very cold," remembers Aseef Raihan. "I pulled out my military sleeping bag, and slept (...)
Millions of people across Mexico, the US and Canada looked to the skies on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse carve a narrow path of darkness across the continent.
The moon's shadow first touched the surface of the Earth in the Pacific Ocean (...)
Eclipse watchers are keeping a close eye on the weather ahead of a solar eclipse that will plunge a wide strip of North America into daytime darkness on Monday.
Forecasters are predicting cloudy conditions in northern Mexico, Texas and parts of the (...)
Eclipse fever is building. Millions in North America are hoping to spend around four minutes of total darkness as the Moon blocks the Sun's light on Monday.
For some, those precious minutes will be an opportunity for often impossible science (...)
Millions of observers will watch next week's American solar eclipse from the ground. But a few lucky NASA flight crews will get a much closer view.
When a total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday, April 8, an estimated 31 million people (...)
Days after his speakership was put on notice by a far-right member, Mike Johnson strategized with a key – and perhaps surprising – source: firebrand GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, the architect of the last effort to remove a speaker.
Gaetz, who is (...)
Rep. Derrick Van Orden is done with Rep. Bob Good.
Good, the leader of the House Freedom Caucus and one of eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, has been at the center of internal GOP infighting that has left their (...)
Former President Donald Trump is officially selling a patriotic copy of the Christian Bible themed to Lee Greenwood's famous song, "God Bless the USA."
"Happy Holy Week!" Trump announced on social media Tuesday, during the most solemn period of the (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met more than a dozen US CEOs and academics on Wednesday as Beijing renewed efforts to woo back foreign investors and mend strained relations with the United States.
Foreign direct investment in China has slumped in recent (...)
Haiti is a state out of action.
More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a surge of violence in Port-au-Prince, details of a presidential transitional council have still not been revealed.
One of the challenges this (...)