The U.S., Israel and Argentina on Wednesday voted against a United Nations resolution led by Ghana to label the international slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and call for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. was one of three members of the United Nations that voted against a General Assembly resolution Wednesday calling the ...

Pennsylvania House Democrats withdrew consideration of a resolution honoring March as "National Women’s Month" after a Republican lawmaker filed an amendment to include the physiological definition of ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...

Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would stop the U.S. from going to war with Cuba without congressional approval as President Trump has threatened a “takeover” of the country. Democratic ...

Washington — Senate Democrats have filed legislation that would prevent the U.S. from attacking Cuba without congressional approval as they seek to force a vote on President Trump's stated goal of a ...

Kaia Hubbard is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C. The war powers vote came amid concerns that the U.S. could be engaged in another lengthy war in the Middle East, and ...

The House of Representatives rejected a war powers resolution aimed at reining in President Donald Trump's authority to use the military in Iran. The Senate rejected a similar measure on Wednesday.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Key members of Congress are calling for a vote on a war powers resolution on Monday ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday in Washington. (Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP) Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution ...

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday cast a tie-breaking vote, blocking a resolution intended to halt President Donald Trump from using the military in Venezuela. Vance's vote for the point of order ...

Along with champagne and fireworks, nothing is more quintessential to New Year’s than abandoning one’s best efforts at self-improvement. Surveys have found that fewer than 10 percent of Americans who ...