Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter Eight US navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group have attempted suicide since the start of their lengthy deployment as part of the US war on Iran, Hung Cao, the actin
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As the secretary general, António Guterres, prepares to step down, the general assembly is highlighting the scale of the organisation’s challenges The United Nations was created, its charter states , to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war”. Donald Trump used his address to th
The news organizations, which sued the US president, are claiming the ban violates the first amendment US politics live – latest updates The US Department of Justicehas defended Donald Trump ’s decision to ban three new organizations from the White House in a court filing , arguing that access t
Administration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory The Trump administration is holding back Covid vaccines for all children in at least 11 states and one US territory, and officials have not indicated when or whether the shots will become availa
Two leaders could discuss tech safety issues and US-China trade ties but may skip over climate emergency Analysis: AI looms large over Trump-Xi meeting The leaders of the world’s two superpowers are meeting in the US this week . It is Xi Jinping’s first state visit to the US in more than a decad
Congress has so far done little to rein in the AI industry even as some of its most prominent leaders warn about potentially catastrophic risks Sign up for US Breaking News emails Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump will meet with the Chinese president Xi Jinping later today
One of the largest labor unions in the US targets eight battleground states in ‘workers v billionaires’ campaign The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), one of the largest labor unions in the US, has launched a “workers v billionaires” political campaign tour
US officials have begun to buy back wind leases as president seek to block renewables in favor of fossil fuels Democratic attorneys general from California and New York have sued the Trump administration over its plans to buy back offshore wind leases as Donald Trump seeks to discourage the expansio
But industry trade group says plan would backfire and lead to even higher prices for gasoline US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump on Tuesday said he backed the idea of a ban on diesel exports, which some US politicians are calling for as a way to curb the soaring cost of ene
US president may have upstaged the ghost of Soviet leader Khrushchev by musing destruction of fellow member state Donald Trump has a habit of discomfiting delegates to the United Nations general assembly. But this year, he may have upstaged the ghost of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev by open
US president threatens to ‘annihilate’ Tehran and dismisses threat from AI as a ‘hoax’ in bellicose address US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump has called on nations to unite to isolate Tehran and bring down global energy prices, as he gave a bellicose defence of his administrat