US Politics


US government starts likely brief shutdown as House fails to approve deal

A view of the US Capitol building a day before a partial government shutdown is scheduled to take place, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, US, September 30, 2025.

'Apocalyptic wasteland': Biden admin. blocked warning on deteriorating Gaza situation after Oct. 7

Buildings lie in ruins amid the rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 8, 2025.

Trump names former governor Kevin Warsh as Powell's successor for US Federal Reserve head

KEVIN WARSH, Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, US, May 8, 2017.