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Rep. Nancy Pelosi will retire following the 2026 midterm elections, ending her almost 40-year career in Congress, but leaving a lasting influence on U.S. politics.
As China's Xi Jinping meets with President Trump at the White House on Thursday. Talks will touch on Iran and how Beijing is circumventing U.S. sanctions.
Higher energy prices due to the conflict in the Middle East and climate change could hit growth.
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds President Trump — and his unpopularity — is an outsize factor in why most voters say they want Democrats to win the midterms.
NPR's Leila Fadel asks political commentator Jonah Goldberg what Republicans should do about their party's poor poll numbers.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris returns to Michigan, a state she narrowly lost to President Trump in 2024. The state is once again critical come Election Day.
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has confirmed the review after US president told Andy Burnham the deal was "terrible".
Burnham seemed nervous at first, knowing how explosive these encounters with Trump can be, writes BBC political editor Chris Mason.
The UK could act as "an honest broker" on AI and other global challenges, the prime minister tells world leaders at the UN.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest financial disclosure reveals he accepted free flights to Fiji and Greece and lucrative book advances.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott about President Trump's speech to the United Nations and America's place in the world.
Concerns over Sir Ed Davey's leadership were dampened by pledges at conference and his performance.
The future of Trump's D.C. arch was already fraught. Then he rebranded it as a military complex. Experts say that only raises more legal and logistical questions.
The UK has proposed handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and paying to lease back an important military base.
The party's leader in Scotland, Malcolm Offord, describes the debate as an insult and a waste of time.
The Lib Dem leader vows to raise tax thresholds if he becomes PM, in a speech to his party conference.
The Lib Dem leader is addressing his party conference in Brighton.
Reform Senedd members pick Laura Anne Jones to fill the vacancy left by Helen Jenner becoming leader.