Ismail Shakil

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has halted all asylum decisions, the agency's director, Joseph Edlow, said on Friday.

U.S. President Donald Trump called Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week and advised her not to provoke Beijing on the question of Taiwan's sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing Japanese officials and an American briefed on the call.

Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault resigned from cabinet on Thursday over a disagreement with a deal Prime Minister Mark Carney's government signed with the oil-producing province of Alberta to roll back certain climate rules to spur investment in energy production.

A top U.S. military official on Tuesday met with Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to reaffirm partnership and discuss priorities for regional security and stability, the Pentagon said.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday to ease regulatory requirements on certain coke oven processing plants, the White House said.

Egypt has selected U.S. energy firm Hartree Partners for a $4 billion natural gas deal, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau announced Wednesday.

Trump signs order to remove tariffs from Brazilian beef, coffee

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is preparing broad exemptions to certain tariffs in an effort to ease elevated food prices, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing three people briefed on the actions.

The U.S. military killed four men in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Wednesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former U.S. Representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release.

Canada will provide C$60 million ($43.35 million) in funding to support stability in Haiti, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand announced at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

The Canadian government said on Friday that it had started a public consultation process to gather views on the operations of the U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade agreement, ahead of the first joint review of the pact in 2026.

Former Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, in her first public remarks since getting abruptly dismissed last month by President Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that firing the government's chief labor statistician is a "dangerous step" that has serious economic consequences.

The Group of Seven nations' finance ministers, in a meeting on Friday, discussed possibly imposing sanctions and trade measures such as tariffs on countries that they consider to be "enabling" Russia's war in Ukraine, according to a statement released by the Canadian finance ministry.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Florida's plan to end all state vaccine mandates was a "tough stance" and said there are vaccines that work and people should take them.

The United States has imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights groups that asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel over allegations of genocide in Gaza.

Trump says he will order voter ID requirement for every vote

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of Starlink services and related equipment and Patriot air defense sustainment and related equipment to Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Friday.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson alleged that Gmail uses what the FTC calls partisan filtering and raised the issue in a letter to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google parent company Alphabet , the regulator said on Thursday.

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of sustainment and related elements of logistics and program support for F-35 jets to Poland for an estimated cost of $1.85 billion, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.