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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that his relationship with religion had "changed" after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year, as he advocated at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol for Americans…

A food bank in the Southwest United States is tackling hunger and emergency food needs with a flavorful fundraiser that has local chefs competing for the best soup. Gustavo Martinez Contreras has our story from New Mexico.

WASHINGTON — Jamieson Greer, President Donald Trump's choice to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, promised to pursue the president's hard-line trade policies in testimony Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee. But he faced pushback…

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — One U.S. service member and three defense contractors were killed Thursday when a plane contracted by the U.S. military crashed in a rice field in the southern Philippines, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said. The aircraft…

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan duo in the U.S. House is proposing legislation to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from federal devices, similar to the policy already in place for the popular social media platform TikTok.…

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Thursday new sanctions on Iran’s oil industry, targeting an international network that facilitates the shipment of millions of barrels of Iranian oil to China. In a release, the Treasury…

WASHINGTON — The U.S. foreign aid agency broadly shut down by the Trump administration has long been criticized by Beijing. But as USAID projects wind down, will Beijing step in to try to build influence? Some analysts say although China…

A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration's proposed incentive for federal workers until at least Monday, giving an initial win to labor unions that sued to stop it. The ruling by U.S. District Judge George…

The new tariffs on Chinese imports, imposed by President Donald Trump this month, include a provision that will close a loophole that Chinese online retailers used for their U.S.-bound exports. The “de minimis” exemption that applies to…

In a joint effort to reinforce security on the border, authorities from Mexico and the United States have intensified joint operations in the area of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso. Click here for the full story in Spanish.