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A scheduled joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scrapped ...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service began making sweeping cuts to its workforce on Friday, the agency's leadership said in an ...

A coalition of state attorneys general sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its decision to cut $11 billion in federal ...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of ...

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HONG KONG -- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has significantly expanded the trade blacklist it inherited from the previous Joe Biden team, aiming to further constrict China's ...

Authorities said it was a "test" to limit misinformation, while critics called it a violation of human rights.