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With a video series on issues he sees as pertinent to the Black community, the U.S. Senate's only Black Republican, Tim Scott of South Carolina, is putting forth what he characterizes as a positive response to partisan rhetoric on race that he's b...

China has restored railway freight traffic with North Korea that had been suspended over pandemic concerns, its foreign ministry said Monday. Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said the connection across the Yalu River between China's Dandong and Sinui...

Shares were mixed in Asia on Monday after China reported that its economy expanded at an 8.1% annual pace in 2021, though growth slowed to half that level in the last quarter. Tokyo, Shanghai and Sydney rose, while Hong Kong and Seoul declined. The weakne...

North Korea's military fired...

Taliban forces on Sunday fired pepper spray at a group of women protesters in Afghanistan's capital demanding rights to work and education, three demonstrators told AFP....

Twitter said Saturday it had permanently suspended an account linked to Iran's supreme leader that posted a video calling for revenge for a top general's assassination against former US president Donald Trump....

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers say they hope to be able to open all schools for girls across the country after late March, their spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday, offering the first timeline for addressing a key demand of the internat...

Andy Murray's bid for his first men's tennis singles championship in more than two years was thwarted by Russia's Aslan Karatsev on Saturday in the final of the Sydney Tennis Classic....

Jan. From Russia's Alexandra Trusova performing in the women short program during the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, to a woman's grief after she lost her family member during a heavy snowfall-hit area in Murree, no...

The Biden administration on Friday named a career CIA official to coordinate the intelligence community's response to election threats from Russia, China and other adversaries. Jeffrey Wichman was named election threats executive by Director of Nation...

A former acting inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security on Friday pleaded guilty to several charges in connection to stealing government software and databases in a scheme to create and sell a case management system to government agencie...

The rise of cryptocurrencies has a lot to do with the broader political madness that has American democracy on the brink....

Iraq might for the first time in years get a government that excludes Iran-backed parties if a powerful populist cleric who dominated a recent election keeps his word, Iraqi politicians, government officials and independent analysts say. But moves by the ...

Russia's state financial monitoring agency on Friday added jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's allies Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov to its list of...

A massive cyberattack warning Ukrainians to...

Blockchain research firm Chainalysis says the value extracted from the hacks grew by 40% year-on-year....

North Korea on Friday berated the Biden administration for imposing fresh sanctions against the country over its latest missile tests and warned of stronger and more explicit action if Washington maintains its "confrontational stance." In a statem...

In October, Dorsey said that Block, formerly Square, was considering building a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses worldwide. In a tweet thread on Thursday, Block's general manager for hardware...

KARACHI, Pakistan — It was 20 years ago when the jihadi, a defense ministry official in the Taliban's first government, fled Afghanistan as U.S. troops swept into the country. He settled in southwestern Pakistan with other Afghans, bought a hous...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday said he won't testify before the Jan. 6 select committee — after saying in May of last year that he would provide information about a phone call he had with then-President Donald Trump on the day ...

Another high-profile Republican joins Dr. Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race...

Bitcoin's journey throughout 2021 in 12 charts....

Head of Swiss cryptocurrency bank predicts price of bitcoin will reach new high this year...

Britain and India began hammering out a post-Brexit trade deal on Thursday, with London seeking a cut in tariffs on Scotch whisky and greater access to the Asian giant's services and tech sectors....

A Russia-led military bloc began to pull its troops out of Kazakhstan on Thursday after a week-long deployment which helped the Central Asian nation overcome the worst bout of violent unrest in its post-Soviet history. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokay...

South Korea is set to pay compensation to Iran's Dayyani Group over a 2015 dispute after the United States cleared the path towards the payment without violating its sanctions against Tehran, the Asian nation's foreign ministry said. Dayyani, the ...

The White House on Wednesday pushed back on rebukes of President Biden's speech in Georgia, calling criticism from some Republican lawmakers...

The Oregon Justice Department and the Better Business Bureau are investigating an Illinois firm that runs coronavirus testing sites across the U.S....

The Republican lawmaker was in touch with Donald Trump the day of the Capitol riot, and the committee wants to know what they talked about....

The Pennsylvania Republican candidate is now a...

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) tore into President Biden's speech advocating a suspension of filibuster rules, in remarks on the Senate floor on Wednesday....

An Iranian employee of the British Council arrested in Tehran and later sentenced to 10 years in prison over internationally criticized espionage charges has been freed and traveled to the United Kingdom, the organization said Wednesday. Iranian authoriti...

The body of former U.S. Senator Harry Reid will lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, as lawmakers pay tribute to the Democratic majority leader who died on Dec. 28. The Nevada statesman, who was 82 when he died after a ba...

Though Trump was in office at the time, Cruz said Biden should "fess up" while pushing the conspiracy that the FBI took part in the January 6 insurrection....

This is reportedly the first time since March 2020 that Mr Kim has been known to attend a missile launch....

The Hong Kong government has criticised the Economist magazine over an article about the city's recent Legislative Council election, saying it is...

It comes as the United Nations has appealed for $4.4bn (3.2bn) in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan....

Cathay Pacific has said its crews spent a combined total of 73,000 nights in quarantine last year as the airline struggles to keep flying through Hong Kong's strict zero-Covid controls....

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, on Tuesday accused Republican Senator Rand Paul of spreading misinformation that has sparked threats of violence against him and his family while distracting the public from the fight against th...

The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas on Tuesday to two Republican strategists and a Trump administration official regarding their involvement in the planning and preparation of one of the rallies that preceded the a...

Under pressure from civil rights leaders, Biden endorsed changing the Senate filibuster to sidestep Republican opposition to two voting-rights bills....

Takeoffs at some western US airports were temporarily halted after North Korea test-launched a ballistic missile, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday....

Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) on Tuesday called for lawmakers who repeatedly defy the House chamber mask requirement to be restricted from the House floor.Why it matters: The demand comes amid a raft of new restrictions in the House aimed at combating th...

Top Republicans are privately lobbying Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) to mount a challenge to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), according to a person familiar with the efforts. Among those involved in the effort are Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K...

The Department of Justice is opening a new unit to investigate acts of domestic terrorism, a top national security official said during a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday.Why it matters: The FBI and Justice Department warned repeatedly last year that t...

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Tuesday that troops from the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) would begin a phased withdrawal within two days, with a full exit taking no longer than 10 days.Why it matters: Tokayev ...

The United Nations on Tuesday made what it called a record $5 billion appeal to help Afghanistan and its neighboring countries, warning half of the country faces acute hunger, millions of children are out of school and farmers are struggling against droug...

The president of Kazakhstan announced Tuesday that a Russia-led security alliance will start pulling out its troops from the country in two days after completing its mission. The mostly Russian troops were deployed to Kazakhstan last week by the Collectiv...

North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday, officials in South Korea and Japan said.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeWhy it matters: The detection comes less t...