French President Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump sought to smooth over a transatlantic rift on Ukraine yesterday, with the US president eyeing a deal to end Russia’s invasion “within weeks” backed by European peacekeepers.

President Donald Trump’s administration said on Sunday it was placing all personnel at the foreign assistance agency USAID, except leaders and critical staff, on paid administrative leave and eliminating 1,600 positions in the United States.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of USAID personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating some 2,000 of those positions in the US, according to a notice sent to agency workers reviewed by Reuters

Multiple US agencies have told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump's adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the “Satanic Verses” author.

The US Defense Department will cut its civilian workforce by at least five percent starting next week, the Pentagon said Friday, as President Donald Trump continues slashing the government payroll.

President Donald Trump fired top US military officer General Charles “CQ” Brown on Friday, part of a major shake-up of the armed forces’ leadership.

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against three White House officials on Friday after the news agency was barred from some of US President Donald Trump’s events.

US President Donald Trump had a heated exchange with a Democratic governor Friday over his order barring transgender athletes from women’s sports.

Trump said he would nominate retired Lieutenant General Dan "Razin" Caine to succeed Brown

US President Donald Trump on Thursday called the Associated Press (AP) a “radical left organization”, his latest salvo against the US media mainstay over its use of the Gulf of Mexico for the renamed body of water.

The 180-year-old media organization has long been a pillar of US journalism and provides news to print, TV and radio outlets across the country

When President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with his Japanese counterpart this month, talk turned quickly to how Tokyo could help realise a decades-old proposal to unlock gas in Alaska and ship it to US allies in Asia.

Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment

Trump insists that his only goal was 'peace' to end the largest land war in Europe since World War II

US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham dismissed on Monday President Donald Trump’s proposal to seize Gaza and force out the Palestinians, while Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal said he expects Arab states to put forward a workable alternative.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration is as a White House employee and senior adviser to the president, and is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and has no decision-making authority, the White House said in a court filing on Monday.

Top US and Russian diplomats met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their fractured relations, the first such discussions since the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia earlier in the day from Israel where he began his first visit to the region as the top US diplomat

On Saturday, another US military aircraft carrying 117 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amristar