Robert Mueller, New Special Counsel, Is Known for Independence

(CNN) Fresh controversy swirled around former US national security adviser Michael Flynn Thursday after one report claimed he told the Trump transition team he was under federal investigation before he started in the role, and another said he opposed a …

Some Dutch passengers on KLM flights might have recognized the co-pilot’s voice when he introduced himself on the airline’s services.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, right, and Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy at a joint news conference in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday.

As Donald Trump has grown increasingly angry and frustrated with his White House staff, the beleaguered targets of his ire have a quietly roiling gripe of their own – their boss, the president himself.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s Republican colleagues were ready Wednesday to accept the House majority leader’s explanation that he was joking in his private comments last year suggesting that then-candidate Donald Trump was being paid by Russian President …

The International Court of Justice has ordered Pakistan to halt the planned execution of a former Indian naval officer pending a final decision in the proceedings.

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Brazil’s bonds and stocks trading in Europe tumbled as a fresh political crisis threatened to ensnare President Michel Temer. The declines drove the yield on the country’s 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) of bonds due 2021 up by the most since they began …

Supporters of the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, who is running for re-election, at a campaign rally in Isfahan on Sunday. Credit Vahid Salemi/Associated Press.

Donald Trump’s first overseas trip as president begins Friday with a pilgrimage of sorts. With stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican, Trump will be visiting the centers of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the three major monotheistic religions …

Presidents are used to receiving unsolicited advice. Here’s something for President Donald Trump to ponder as he packs his bags for Israel: Many Israelis really don’t care whether the United States moves its embassy to Jerusalem.