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President Trump said Thursday he doesn’t view North Korea’s unveiling of a new intercontinental ballistic missile as a betrayal of his unconventional negotiations with dictator Kim Jong-un.

Speaking at the final presidential debate, Mr. Trump said the proof is in the pudding, citing claims the U.S. was on the brink …

Democratic nominee Joseph R. Biden on Thursday said he would force China to “play by the rules” if he is elected president.

During Thursday’s final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, the former vice president insisted that he would “make China abide by international rules” and accused his Republican rival, President …

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met for the second and last time on a debate stage after a previously scheduled town hall debate was scrapped after the Republican incumbent became one of the millions of Americans to contract the coronavirus.

For Trump, the matchup …

Add the state of online political freedom worldwide to the list of things that are not looking so healthy since the coronavirus pandemic arrived earlier this year.

A new report this month from Freedom House, a Washington-based human rights advocacy organization, is warning that internet users around the world are …

Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden on Thursday insisted that “nothing was unethical” about his son Hunter’s business relationship with a Ukrainian energy company.

President Trump pressed the Democratic nominee about his son’s alleged payments from Russia, but Mr. Biden insisted that rules were not violated.

“I carried out U.S. …

President Trump was incredulous Thursday when Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden suggested that newly breaking details about his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings that were apparently gleaned from a damaged laptop amounted to a Russian disinformation campaign.

“If this stuff is true about Russia, Ukraine, China, other countries, Iraq …

TOKYO (AP) – Japan and Britain signed a bilateral free trade deal Friday in the the first such major post-Brexit deal, reducing tariffs on Yorkshire lamb sold in Japan, as well as auto parts for Japan’s Nissan plant.

“How fitting it is to be in the Land of the …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. chief finds it “very frustrating” that leaders of the 20 major industrialized nations didn’t come together in March and establish a coordinated response to suppress the coronavirus in all countries as he proposed.

Instead, they went their own ways as infections moved “every way, …

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leaders hope Washington will tone down conflicts over trade, technology and security if Joe Biden wins the Nov. 3 presidential election. But any shift is likely to be in style, not substance, as frustration with Beijing increases across the American political spectrum.

Both Republican and Democratic …

MADRID – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez appealed to Spaniards to pull together and defeat the coronavirus, warning: “The situation is serious.”

Sánchez, in a televised address to the nation Friday, acknowledged public fatigue with restrictions to contain the spread. But he added: “We have to step up the fight.”

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