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Biden prides himself on his diplomacy skills with world leaders. This week's NATO summit will put him to the test.

Democratic lawmakers have dodged reporters, talked around the question or, when pressed, said what they needed to say in hopes of moving on from questions about President Biden's decline. Their answers say as much about their own political motivations as they do about Biden.

Controversies over the GOP platform and the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 reflect the former president's lack of any consistent ideology or policies.

After outfoxing several prominent Democrats in the March Senate primary, Republican Steve Garvey has been very quiet. Except for his visit to Israel.

Alec Baldwin has long said he didn't pull the trigger the day Halyna Hutchins was killed. He'll soon meet the jury that will decide whether he's guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

Israel under fire for 'GPS spoofing' affecting airplane navigation systems in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus.

A strike by doctors in South Korea is testing the public's faith in a healthcare system that has long been one of the world's best.

A defiant President Biden vowed Monday to stay in the presidential race amid calls by some Democrats for him to step aside.

A Dominican Republic court rules that Raúl Mondesi, who was sentenced to prison in 2017 for embezzling more than $6 million as a mayor, has served his time while under house arrest.

Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are on the road supporting President Biden in the aftermath of last week's debate.

Would Democrats be better off with Kamala Harris as their candidate? Right now, the Biden family looks dug in at the White House.

In the first head-to-head comparison of two blockbuster drugs, patients taking Mounjaro lost more weight than those taking Ozempic.

Earth has experienced 12 consecutive months of warming at or above 1.5 degrees Celsius — a threshold for avoiding the worst effects of climate change.

Many of America's NATO allies would be hard-pressed to defend themselves, and one another, against a determined Russian assault, let alone project power in Asia.

NATO, meeting in Washington, marks its 75th anniversary this year. But for key members, including the U.S., France and Germany, it's a turbulent time.

France's voters denied the far right an expected election victory. But neither the left nor the center won an absolute majority. Deadlock will likely follow.

Scholars rated the performance of the past century of veeps. Joe Biden and Al Gore scored high. Kamala Harris and Mike Pence, not so much.

Kamala Harris rose from San Francisco D.A. to vice president. The L.A. resident is in the spotlight as President Biden faces growing pressure to withdraw from the 2024 race.

Earlier in his political career, President Biden showed gritty refusal to be counted out. Now his trademark defiance seems to be hardening into denial.

Downplaying its Nazi past, the far-right National Rally party in France has tried to rebrand itself as an ally of Jews and Israel.

Chief Justice Roberts often prefers to avoid partisan decisions with careful compromises. Not so with the Trump immunity ruling.

French election: The far right seems poised to win biggest share of parliamentary seats; President Emmanuel Macron looks to have made a terrible political bet.

Democratic voters in deep-blue LA County debated whether Biden should remain the presidential nominee following his disastrous debate performance last week.