Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government will crack down on hate speech following the deadly shooting at Bondi Beach that targeted a Jewish festival.

The unthinkable has happened: the United States is now Europe’s adversary.

The Australian government has announced a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack — the country’s deadliest mass shooting in decades.

European Union leaders have agreed to provide Ukraine with a €90 billion (£79 billion; $105 billion) loan after failing to reach consensus on using frozen Russian assets.

For the eighth year in a row, the Pentagon has failed its annual audit.

The United States has appeared to pour cold water on the idea of Japan acquiring its own nuclear weapons after a senior government official who advises Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on security expressed a personal opinion that Tokyo should possess such arms.

Ukraine said its drones struck a Russian oil rig belonging to Lukoil in the Caspian Sea, as well as a military patrol ship near the facility, as Kyiv steps up attacks on Moscow’s oil infrastructure.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday he remains confident that Congress will extend expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits despite continued opposition from Republicans.

Public support for the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has slipped to 67.5%.

One day before the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee publicly disclosed another batch of photographs provided by Epstein’s estate in response to congressional subpoenas.

Moderate House Republicans have revolted against Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats to force a vote in January on expiring Obamacare subsidies.

A man suspected in fatal shootings at Brown University and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after a five-day multistate search.

The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion, including medium-range missiles, howitzers, and drones—a move that is sure to infuriate China.

Cyber attackers sponsored by North Korea have stolen more than $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency since January.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ordered a review of police and national intelligence agencies following the Bondi Beach attack in Sydney.

Oil prices jumped about 3% after President Donald Trump threatened to blockade all sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out of Venezuela.

After a turbulent year, U.S.-China relations are ending 2025 on a fragile note following a late-year thaw at a leadership summit in Busan, South Korea.

Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial that could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

The House voted to pass a sweeping defense policy bill authorizing $900 billion in military programs, including a pay raise for troops and an overhaul of how the Department of Defense buys weapons.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, told the BBC that she knows “exactly the risks” she is taking by traveling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize.

Tourists from dozens of countries, including the United Kingdom, could be required to provide a five-year social media history as a condition of entry to the United States under a new proposal unveiled by American officials.

Democrats can now add a major city in Donald Trump’s home state — and one set to host his future presidential library — to their list of off-cycle election wins.

A bystander who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, whose refugee parents had just arrived from Syria.

Rev. Michael L. Pfleger of Chicago’s massive Catholic congregation, The Faith Community of Saint Sabina, has denounced Donald Trump for deploying troops in Chicago and “terrorizing Americans.”