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Argentina's Milei heads to the US again, balancing Trump ties with growing China trade

5:37 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Argentina’s President Javier Milei deepens ties with U.S. President Donald Trump while trying to avoid a break with China, Argentina’s top trading partner

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mamdani reboots homeless encampment sweeps in New York City

4:13 PM on Wednesday, February 18

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has resumed the practice of clearing out homeless encampments, saying he has retooled the process

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya attends an event with first lady Melania Trump at The Children's Inn in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

NIH's Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Trump administration looks for a permanent director

3:51 PM on Wednesday, February 18

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official

Ghana and Kenya investigate presumed Russian national for secretly recording sexual encounters

3:14 PM on Wednesday, February 18

Ghana and Kenya have launched investigations into the activities of a man believed to be a Russian national who is accused of secretly recording sexual encounters with several women and publishing them online without their consent

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, greets Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse D-R.I. and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Ct., center, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

US senators visit key Ukrainian port city as they push for fresh sanctions on Russia

2:24 PM on Wednesday, February 18

A delegation of U.S. senators is returning from a trip to Ukraine

FILE - Jesse Jackson, with his wife Jacqueline, concedes defeat in the Illinois Democratic primary on March 16, 1988, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Lisa Genesen, File)

Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential run inspired generations to carry his message

12:52 PM on Wednesday, February 18

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s two presidential runs and his life of activism inspired leaders across generations

FILE - Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Another Canadian Conservative lawmaker defects to Carney's governing Liberals

11:42 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Another opposition Conservative lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te speaks during a press conference on "Taiwan-U.S. Economic Prosperity Partnership" in Taipei, Taiwan on Feb. 3, 2026. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

Why Trump's comment on discussing Taiwan arms sales with China has raised concerns

10:23 AM on Wednesday, February 18

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is discussing potential arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and that has raised concerns

FILE - Industrial development is seen along the Mobile River near Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett, File)

Following Trump's lead, some GOP states seek to limit environmental regulations

10:17 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Some Republican legislators are pushing to limit state environmental regulations

FILE - A general view of a pumping station at the end of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the east German refinery PCK in Schwedt, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)

Hungary will suspend diesel shipments to Ukraine over interruption to Russian oil supply

9:53 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Hungary is halting diesel shipments to Ukraine as a dispute over interrupted Russian oil flows through Ukraine drags on

FILE- Founder of feminist group 'Nemesis', Alice Cordier, left, faces supporters of far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI) as she protests against a conference given by far-left politician Jean-Luc Melenchon, unseen, as part of the European elections campaign, at the University of Sciences Politiques, in Paris, Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Police arrest 11 in the beating death of a far-right student in France

7:38 AM on Wednesday, February 18

French police have arrested 11 people after a far-right student died from a beating in Lyon

FILE - Birds fly near the U.S. Capitol during sunrise, Feb. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner, File)

Many Democrats are still down on the Democratic Party, a new AP-NORC poll finds

7:08 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Democratic candidates have notched a series of wins in recent special elections — but a new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bounced back since President Donald Trump’s victory in 2024

FILE - Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, in Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Somalia renews its US-backed fight against al-Shabab militant group. Here is why it matters

3:47 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Somalia’s government says U.S.-backed airstrikes and expanded ground operations have shifted momentum in its long-running war against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group

Family members of suspected Islamic State militants who are Australian nationals board a van heading to the airport in Damascus during the first repatriation operation of the year, at Roj Camp in eastern Syria, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Thirty-four Australian citizens from 11 families departed the camp. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

Australia bans a citizen with alleged links to militant IS group from returning from Syria

1:36 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Australia’s government has banned an Australian with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group from returning from a detention camp in Syria

FILE - Members of the House of Commons and Lords during the State Opening of Parliament, in the House of Lords, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (Aaron Chown/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Tremors from the Epstein files rattle the age-old foundations of Britain's House of Lords

12:12 AM on Wednesday, February 18

Britain’s House of Lords is facing scrutiny as an indirect result of the Jeffrey Epstein files

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks during a campaign event, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026, in Tyler, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Texas Republican Paxton steps up his Senate bid against GOP Sen. Cornyn ahead of early voting

1:52 PM on Monday, February 16

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is stepping up his race for the U.S. Senate with early voting about to begin for the March 3 GOP primary

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