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French President Emmanuel Macron (third from right) and local officials inaugurate the extension of the Paris metro’s line 14 at the new Saint-Denis-Pleyel metro station, North of Paris, on June 24, 2024. After months of racing against time, the extension of line 14 will welcome passengers on this day, one month before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Photo: VCG

Describing the upcoming China visit as a potential

A series of shootings was reported around Charlotte in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Senate Democrats are meeting with top Biden advisers amid calls for the White House to do more to reassure the party about his fitness and path to reelection after his unsteady debate.

Destructive storms like Hurricane Beryl that knocked out power to 3 million homes and businesses in Texas are growing more frequent and intense, and insurers are jacking up rates in response.

Pittsburgh's most storied steel company, U.S. Steel, is on the cusp of being bought by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. in a deal that's kicking up an election year political maelstrom.

President Joe Biden's press conference offers him a fresh opportunity to try to prove to the American public that he’s capable of serving another four years after his big debate flop threw the future of his presidency into doubt.

U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are set to hold talks with Asia-Pacific leaders amid concerns about tensions with China.

Several employees involved in the death of a Black man who was pinned to the ground outside a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee have been fired.

Germany said Thursday it will phase out the use of components from Chinese telecom giants Huawei and ZTE in its 5G networks in the coming years due to national security concerns.

The ABC anchor expressed some doubts about the president when he was stopped by a passerby while out for a walk in New York City.

Los Angeles residents and businesses will face higher electric bills as the Department of Water and Power transitions to 100% clean energy, according to a report by the city's Office of Public Accountability.

The climate transition is a materials transition. Decades of international diplomacy around oil, gas and pipelines are now giving way to conversations around the supply of critical raw materials. And not before time: to meet the EU's energy and climate targets, we need to build the right technologies, in the right quantities, at the right speed. The problem is that many of these technologies are built with materials imported from just a handful of countries.

China's latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping's doctrine, in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by.

Senator Peter Welch joins nearly a dozen House Democrats publicly calling on President Biden to end his candidacy.

Ukraine has long sought to join NATO, which would afford it much greater protection against Russia and other adversaries.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries plans to convey his caucus' growing concerns about President Biden's campaign directly to the president this week.

Ghana is considering bids from five companies for the construction of what would be its first nuclear power plant. The companies are: France's EDF, US-based NuScale Power and Regnum Technology Group; China National Nuclear Corporation; South Korea's Kepco and its subsidiary Korea Hydro Nuclear Power Corporation; and Russia's Rosatom. The Conversation Africa's Godfred Akoto Boafo interviewed Seth Kofi Debrah, director, Nuclear Power Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, on the pros and cons of adding nuclear power to the country's power mix, and why Ghana needs to diversify and identify new energy sources.

A 26-year-old man is the subject of a manhunt in England in connection with the murder of 3 women killed with a crossbow.

The exercises will be the first simultaneous air and naval maneuvers Russia has conducted in the Caribbean since 2019.