The country’s tense negotiations hinged on taxing and social spending — and they highlight issues facing Europe, and Western democracies, as a whole.

The UN estimates another 2,800 were injured as M23 rebels captured the eastern city of Goma.

Victims in the crash included figure skaters, a group of friends traveling to hunt and the flight’s pilots and crew Washington DC plane crash – latest updates A fatal crash on 29 January took down a commercial jet and a US military helicopter on a training flight near Washington DC’s Reagan National airport. Authorities have…

Internal email says agency is ‘reviewing’ programs and contracts that ‘promote or incubate gender ideology’ US state department employees must scrub gender pronouns from their email signatures by Friday evening, according to an internal email obtained by the Guardian. The directive came from former ambassador Tibor P Nagy, now the acting under-secretary for management, writing…

White House has claimed goods shipped from Canada and Mexico to the US would face a 25% levy starting Saturday US politics – live updates Justin Trudeau says Canada will bring a “forceful but reasonable” retaliation to any tariffs imposed by the US as his country braces for the economic fallout of a trade war….

IRS handbook containing mentions of taxpayers’ ‘inequity’ and ‘inclusion’ have been wiped, WSJ reports As the Trump administration continues to get rid of diversity programs throughout the government, it is deleting any mention of the words “diversity,” “equity” and “inclusion”. That meant that in the Internal Revenue Service’s procedural handbook for employees, the terms were…