Emmanuel Macron has a penchant for predicting the end of eras.

US President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to slash the government’s size.

A federal appeals court over the weekend declined to lift a lower court order barring the Trump administration from using expedited removals to rapidly deport migrants without a court hearing.

A Ukrainian drone strike ignited a fire at the Shatura power plant east of Moscow, with several drones hitting the facility and others intercepted by Russian air defenses.

Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion that he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

Russia and Ukraine escalated fighting, with Moscow hitting Kyiv and Kyiv responding with assaults on southern Russian areas, just hours after Donald Trump struck a positive tone on prospects for a ceasefire deal.

Italy’s parliament has approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal code and punishes it with life imprisonment.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the US is “not participating” in G20 talks in South Africa after she saw the country’s president “running his mouth a little bit.”

When China’s top leaders gathered in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People last month, the focus wasn’t on who was in the room — but who was missing.

President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative is facing significant delays.

Long-simmering tensions between President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz are boiling over, with White House allies convinced that the Texas Republican is aiming to boost his 2028 presidential prospects at the expense of Vice President JD Vance.

A day after the Justice Department acknowledged to a federal judge that the full grand jury had not reviewed the final indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney overseeing the case abruptly reversed herself.

China has rejected Japan’s proposal to hold a trilateral summit with South Korea in January following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks about a Taiwan contingency.

The Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited super PAC spending and undisclosed dark money we suffer from today.

United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement that pledged more funding for countries to adapt to the wrath of extreme weather.

There is some relief that the government shutdown is over, but Democrats are more likely to say they are frustrated with the deal that ended it and that their party compromised too much.

The arrival of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at UN climate talks was hoped to spur nations to meet a self-imposed early deadline for progress on tough issues.

Since the end of President Donald Trump’s first term, he and his family have struck at least nine deals with Saudi investors, collecting an estimated $50 million from deals connected to Saudi Arabia in 2024 alone.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a loyal supporter-turned-critic of President Donald Trump who faced his political retribution if she sought reelection, said she is resigning from Congress in January.

Kyiv’s biggest European allies lined up with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to reject key elements of a US-Russian plan to end the war in Ukraine as Washington threatened to halt military support to force acceptance of the deal.

The United States confirmed the sale to Taiwan of an advanced missile system worth almost $700 million, its second weapons package in a week bringing the total to $1 billion, and reaffirmed support for Taipei.

A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN for describing his claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen as the “Big Lie."

By virtue of its size, contiguity, economic weight, and crucial role in the world economy, China will always enjoy considerable influence in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia.

Both the House and Senate acted decisively to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.