War is government’s gravest undertaking, but defining war is difficult, declaring it is rare, and making constitutional values and procedure...

The US president boldly claimed to have solved thorny disputes between adversaries including Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, and I...

When I retired as the Mercury News editorial page editor in 2023, I wrote a farewell column urging readers not to give up on America, despit...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team testified Friday in a wrongful death lawsuit that the fatal o...

'I am thoroughly disillusioned with the so-called international community': East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is using her fashion choices to highlight Indigenous women’s work

The cast of theLittle House on the Prairiewere famous in their own right thanks to the TV series, with star Dean Butler having gotten an inv...

Blue Jays president and CEO Mark Shapiro has signed a five-year contract extension, Rogers Communications (which owns the Jays) announced Fr...

Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast and leftist leader Jeannette Jara have made combatting crime key to their agendas.

The United Nations announced on Friday the appointment of former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the United Nations High Commissioner for Re...

The German director of 'Paris Texas,' 'Wings of Desire,' and 'Perfect Days' will judge the winners of the 76th Berlinale.

GENEVA (AP) — Former Iraqi President Barham Salih is on track to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, according to a letter from...

In what could be described as democracy on autopilot, Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected as president of the FIA – and, as fate (and p...

German director, author, and photographer Wim Wenders has been announced as the president of he International Jury of the 76th Berlinale. “W...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Ask many Chileans how their country fared in the past several years and they’ll describe a descent into disaster: Ven...