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Boris Johnson wins Conservative leadership, to become U.K. PM
Boris Johnson, the former London mayor and ebullient Brexiteer who has promised to lead the U.K. out of the European Union by Halloween, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the Conservative Party leadership on Tuesday.
How Robert Mueller's day of answering questions on Capitol Hill might unfold
Neither Republicans nor Democrats are expecting bombshell revelations when they square off with Robert Mueller on Wednesday for five hours of congressional hearings on the Russia investigation, but both hope to extract enough from the tight-lipped former special counsel to advance their respective agendas.
Police officers fired for posts suggesting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot
Two members of a police department in a New Orleans suburb were fired Monday — one for a Facebook post calling U.S. Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "vile idiot" and suggesting she be shot, the other for liking the post.
China's Li Peng, who declared martial law before Tiananmen Square crackdown, dead at 90
Former Chinese Premier Li Peng, reviled by rights activists and many in the Chinese capital as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, has died, state media report.
U.S. accuses Chinese company of buying Iranian oil
China strongly opposes U.S. sanctions on a Chinese energy firm accused of violating curbs on Iran's oil sector levied over Tehran's nuclear program, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
