Irish nationalists Sinn Fein followed up last year’s historic Northern Ireland Assembly victory by overtaking their unionist rivals by a wide margin in council elections on Saturday to become the biggest party at the local level for the first time.
The debt ceiling impasse between Republicans and the White House is no closer to being broken as neither group appears willing to budge on federal spending cuts.
German police said they are investigating the possible poisoning of two Russian exiles who attended a conference in Berlin at the end of April, organized by Russian Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he could support holding interest rates steady at the central bank’s next meeting in June to give officials more time to assess the effects of past rate increases and the inflation outlook, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has become the latest presidential hopeful after filing paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission.
China represents the world’s greatest challenge to security and prosperity, but other leading economies should not seek to fully decouple from it, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday after a summit of the Group of Seven (G7) nations.
Russia and Ukraine gave conflicting accounts of the situation in Bakhmut on Sunday, with Kyiv saying it still controlled a small part of the besieged eastern city while Moscow congratulated the Wagner private army and Russian troops for “liberating” it.
The FBI’s quest for foreign intelligence took the form of frequent misuse of a surveillance tool in investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as well as social justice protests during mid-to-late 2020.
Seven young activists protesting against climate change climbed into the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Sunday and poured diluted charcoal into the water to turn it black.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met on Saturday at the Group of Seven nations summit seeking to turn the page after a French minister accused Rome of mishandling the influx of migrants.
