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Federal courts might be the last guard against TrumpMore than 40 lawsuits have been filed in recent days by state attorneys general, unions and nonprofits seeking to erect a barrier against President...

Stephen James Hubbard left America behind decades ago, first for Japan, then Cyprus and finally Ukraine. He didn’t like the government — any government, really.He was a wanderer, growing up in a...

Israel’s military withdrew Sunday from a key corridor dividing the Gaza Strip, leaving nearly all of the territory’s north as required by a tenuous cease-fire agreement with Hamas.The military’s departure from the...

The thousands of people who work for the U.S. government’s main agency for humanitarian aid and disaster relief have been on the front lines of efforts to fight famine, contain virulent infectious...

President Trump’s executive order freezing most U.S. foreign aid for 90 days has thrown into turmoil programs that fight starvation and deadly diseases, run clinical trials and seek to provide shelter for...

Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, including at least two veteran Hamas operatives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in exchange for three Israeli hostages who had been held in Gaza.Of those...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s national governing party has swept to victory in an important regional election in India’s capital, where voters previously rejected Mr. Modi’s Hindu-first platform for nearly three decades even...

President Trump’s funding freeze has thrown into confusion the future of a Syrian desert camp holding thousands of Islamic State members and their families, the camp’s director and people familiar with it...

President Trump touted the 2020 Abraham Accords that established formal ties between Israel and four Arab countries as one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of his first term.Now he is pursuing...

It was one of the deadliest battles in decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo.After the city of Goma fell to a rebel group known as M23 last week, the International Red...