Politics - News Headlines

French drivers plan to block roads to protest rising fuel taxes and President Emmanuel Macron's policies

Iraq's president is visiting Iran less than two weeks after the United States restored oil sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has met with the head of Taiwan's delegation to an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting

China's leader Xi Jinping and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence trade barbs in speeches to a summit of world leaders, outlining competing visions for global leadership.

A legal referee says a New York attorney who won a landmark oil pollution judgment against Chevron in Ecuador only to have his law license suspended at home should not be disbarred without a chance to defend himself

Two marijuana stores in Massachusetts have been given the green light to begin selling recreational pot next week, making them the first commercial pot shops in the eastern United States

Nevada gambling regulators have approved a settlement with a troubled sports book operator that acknowledged taking unlawful bets and making inaccurate payouts

Business Highlights

Wall Street capped a day of volatile trading with a late-afternoon buying spree that sent U.S. stock indexes to a mostly higher finish Friday

A fight over who owns the fossils of two dinosaurs that appear to have died while locked in battle hinges on the legal definition of "mineral"

A late afternoon wave of buying sent U.S. stocks higher, but the market still ended the week with a loss.

President Donald Trump is signing legislation that elevates cybersecurity work within the Department of Homeland Security

Trump says he will name EPA's acting chief Andrew Wheeler to head the agency

U.S. stock indexes are now mostly lower in afternoon trading, placing the market on course to end the week with sharp loss

CNN's Jim Acosta is back at the White House after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately return his press credentials.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has won support for her beleaguered Brexit deal from key politicians and business groups, but remained besieged by internal party opponents determined to oust her

Europe's long-running economic rebound is facing a mid-life crisis as it copes with worries including a potential debt explosion in Italy, an escalating US-China trade war and a potentially disruptive British exit from the European Union

Greece's Orthodox Church says priests should remain civil servants, rejecting part of a recent government offer to switch a payroll system for clergymen

British Prime Minister Theresa May has filled two vacancies in her Cabinet left by ministers who quit over Brexit