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 New York lawmakers give final passage to legislation that would allow U.S. President Donald Trump's state tax returns to be released to congressional committees that have, so far, been barred from getting the president's federal filings.
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 Prominent Brexit supporter Andrea Leadsom resigned from British Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet on Wednesday, saying she could no longer support the government's approach after May's latest gambit to pass her Brexit deal backfired.
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Andrea Leadsom said she could not announce the new Withdrawal Agreement Bill in parliament on Thursday as she did not believe in it.
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The Justice Department will begin handing over material to the House intelligence committee in response to a subpoena, Chairman Adam Schiff says. But the broader political deadlock remains in effect.
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Britain's prime minister is confronting a ferocious backlash over her latest proposals for leaving the European Union, including the resignation of a key cabinet member.
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Brexit Party leads polls for the European elections, with the Tories on course for a historic low.
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Demonstrators rioted in the capital and burned vehicles to protest President Joko Widodo's victory, despite widespread consensus that the election was largely well run.
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Britain's interior minister Sajid Javid has asked to see Prime Minister Theresa May, the political editors of the Times and the BBC reported on Wednesday, possibly spelling the end of her premiership as concern builds over her new Brexit deal.
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Saying he will not tolerate rioting, Widodo adds, "The military and the police will carry out stern actions in accordance with the law,"
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Conservative MPs call for PM's resignation a day after revamped plan unveiled
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Federal Reserve officials said they are committed to a "patient approach," even if the economy strengthens, according to minutes of their last meeting.
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Theresa May took over as prime minister when David Cameron bowed out, defeated in the Brexit referendum of June 2016. Since then May's time in Downing Street has been defined by her attempts - frustrated time and again - to get Britain out of the EU.
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Taro Kono said he plans to ask overseas news outlets to write Japanese names with the family name first, as is the custom in Japan. But some wonder why the suggestion is coming now.
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The risk of a no-deal Brexit grows as premier's term draws to an end
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Robert F. Smith pledged to wipe out the debt of the graduating class at Morehouse College. Now the students are anxiously waiting to hear what happens next.
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People who came from higher social classes were more likely to have an inflated sense of their skills, a new study found. This overconfidence was interpreted by strangers as competence.
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Plans to expand the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams are abandoned by football's world governing body Fifa.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin ruled out any changes to the U.S. currency imagery before 2028.
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Sources tell ABC News that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remarks accusing Trump of a "cover-up" pushed him over the edge.
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Lawmakers are discussing several measures to solve the problem of unexpected medical bills, which can wreak havoc in consumers' lives. Here's our guide to the current roster of proposed legislation.
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North Korean state media slammed former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden for criticizing leader Kim Jong Un, calling the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful "bereft of elementary quality as a human being."
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Mr Trump rules out any bipartisan co-operation until the Democrats call off "phoney investigations".
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After Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him of a "cover-up," the president said he would not work with Democrats until they stopped their "phony investigations."
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The state news agency also said that if Biden thinks he is the most popular presidential candidate, it's "enough to make a cat laugh."
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St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard suggested Beijing should accept Washington's demands to resolve the diplomatic impasse.
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The prime minister's attempt to deliver Brexit has comprehensively failed
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The letter, written after Alabama passed a restrictive abortion law, says, "The value of human life is not determined by the circumstances of one's conception or birth."
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China is considering cutting natural gas purchases from the U.S. in its tit-for-tat on trade, according to the South China Morning Post.
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Lyon striker Ada Hegerberg is voted BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2019 by fans.
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The Kenyan writer died on Tuesday. Here is his famously sharp-edged essay, with barbed advice like, "Note that 'People' means Africans who are not black, while 'The People' means black Africans.
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The 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad is a good reminder of national unity "if not in spirit, in fact."
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British Prime Minister Theresa May is disappointed by the resignation of Andrea Leadsom over her Brexit strategy, May's office said on Wednesday, adding that the leader would nevertheless stay focused on delivering Brexit.
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The goal is to raise money to fight child poverty by selling red foam noses and staging celebrity events. But some critics are raising questions about the campaign.
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A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Wednesday that Guards and regular Iranian military forces had complete control of Gulf waters north of the Strait of Hormuz, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
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 A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: Syria's civil war threatens to boil over again with allegations of a chemical weapons attack; Nigel Farage and his Brexit Party are under scrutiny by election officials.
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A day after a 16-year-old boy who had the flu died in custody, the Border Patrol found signs of illness among many more migrants detained at a center in McAllen, Tex.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will not make a statement later on Wednesday a government source said, responding to reports she could resign as early as this evening over opposition to her Brexit deal.
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Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri says his future should not be decided by the Europa League final - saying if that was the case "I want to go immediately".
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The Treasury secretary has refused to comply with a House subpoena from a committee chairman requesting the agency turn over Trump's tax returns.
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Democratic lawmakers accuse administration of hyping intelligence to lay path to war.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection is moving migrants out of a processing center in McAllen, Texas, amid fears that many people there have contracted the flu.
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The Treasury secretary said it would be "unlawful" for him to release the president's tax returns to Congress.
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New allegations the Syrian government is using chemical weapons must be looked into, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
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The redesigned bill was supposed to be unveiled in 2020 but has been delayed by eight years.
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The author founded a platform for young Kenyan authors and came out as gay in a place where homosexuality has long been illegal. "Binyavanga was unbound in his imagining," said a friend and colleague.
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For years after the Great Recession, employers were reluctant to boost wages. Now a tight labor market is giving workers the leverage they need to demand a larger slice of the nation's economic pie.
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"The unexpectedly good first quarter 3.2% GDP was greatly helped by Tariffs from China. Some people just don't get it!" Trump tweeted on Monday.
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