"I got news for you. No one politician anywhere in the world can undo what is happening now," says Biden's climate envoy at Davos.

Eritrea is‚ alongside North Korea‚ the world’s most totalitarian state. President Isaias Afwerki brokers no dissent. Fearing popular will‚ he allows no election but rather subjects his population to indefinite conscription to make them slaves of the state. The country hosts the continent’s worst gulags. Its transnational repression extends to the United States. Here‚ Eritrean diplomats extort a tax on emigres by holding relatives in Eritrea hostage under threat of torture and...

The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s defamation trial on Wednesday warned the former president that he has the right to throw him out of the courtroom if he continues making audible statements during the proceedings. "Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive‚" U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told the former president before the trial broke for lunch Wednesday. "Mr. Trump‚ I hope I don’t...

Describing the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip in increasingly apocalyptic terms‚ aid agencies are urging Israel to ease the difficult and often dangerous process of delivering supplies to desperate Palestinians. Israel has embarked on a public campaign to defend its humanitarian record‚ blaming the United Nations and Hamas for the crisis. Famine is looming in Gaza‚ the United Nations warns. The World Food Program estimates that 93 percent of the population...

Former President Donald Trump turned on 2024 GOP rival Nikki Haley late Tuesday and early Wednesday‚ with less than a week to go before what many observers see as a must-win New Hampshire primary for the former South Carolina governor. “Anyone listening to Nikki ‘Nimrada’ [sic] Haley’s wacked-out speech last night‚ would think that she won the Iowa Primary. She didn’t‚'” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Nikki came in a distant THIRD!” Haley’s full name is Nimarata Nikki Haley...

A multi-year‚ $750 million program aimed at doing away with homeless encampments has had mixed results throughout California. Local leaders say ongoing funding is needed.

It took Hisham Awartani some time to realize he'd been shot after falling to the ground during a walk near his grandmother's house with two friends‚ Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad. "I didn’t quite process the fact until I‚ like‚ looked at my phone and I saw my phone had blood on it‚" said Awartani‚ who along with Abdalhamid‚ spoke exclusively with NBC News about that night. "I was like‚ 'Oh‚ I’ve been shot.'" But having grown up in the Israeli-occupied West Bank‚...

President Donald Trump's policies generally were "right" for the country‚ JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said. During a CNBC interview conducted Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos‚ Switzerland‚ Dimon discussed the current U.S. economy and politics with the 2024 presidential election little more than nine months away. He said that many Trump supporters are backing the former president because of his policies‚ not necessarily his personality.

A Washington law firm that tries to help Democrats win elections around the country has asked the liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out the battleground state’s congressional maps‚ arguing that the court’s decision last month ordering new state legislative maps opens the door to the latest challenge. The redistricting lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Elias Law Group on behalf of Democratic voters comes less than a month after the court threw out the state legislative...

Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by on "The View" Wednesday to talk about the administration's message to voters and its goals as the 2024 presidential election kicks off. Harris said she was "scared as heck" when asked about her thoughts about former President Donald Trump being re-elected‚ and that many Americans that she has talked to in the last couple of weeks have that same feeling. The vice president said that she has been actively listening to those concerns and has worked to...