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The U.S. administration of President Joe Biden said Tuesday it will host with South Korea and other countries a second "Summit for Democracy" in late March to promote democratic values over the authoritarianism of countries such as Russia…

China is on course to more than triple its stockpile of nuclear warheads to 1,500 by 2035, when it aims to complete the modernization of its military, the U.S. Defense Department said Tuesday in an annual report on the Asian country's…

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that securing funding for Ukraine and Covid-19 are his priorities before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives early next year. Biden held talks with Democratic and Republican…

The Biden administration is reacting cautiously to protests erupting in China over its government’s zero-Covid-19 lockdowns, just two weeks after President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to ease strained relations between…

Federal Reserve policymakers stressed on Monday that they will raise borrowing costs further to curb inflation, with one key official saying that he sees interest rates heading somewhat higher than he forecast just a couple of months ago.…

A small plane crashed into a transmission tower in Maryland on Sunday, knocking out electricity to roughly 85,000 customers as rescuers raced to extricate the two people on board who were trapped about 30m above the ground. The pilot and…

The U.S. government said Friday it was banning the sale of new telecommunications equipment made by Chinese companies Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp., as well as video surveillance equipment from some other firms, citing national…

Japan is considering using an enemy base strike capability, or what it prefers to call "counterstrike capability," with its ally the United States, in the event it comes under attack, a source familiar with the matter said Friday.…

Oil from Russia's Sakhalin 2 energy project bound for Japan will be excluded from facing a price cap the United States will roll out as part of efforts to squeeze Moscow's revenues for its war in Ukraine, the Treasury Department said in its…

The US Supreme Court cleared the way for a House committee to get six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, dealing a major blow to the former president and giving Democrats a late but resounding triumph after a three-year battle. Without…