Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising Democratic star in the US Congress, spotlighted a report this week saying US tech behemoth Amazon paid no federal income tax for two years. The company also found itself in the headlines after suddenly pulling out of a planned New York City...

"Large numbers" of civilians remain inside the last Islamic State group enclave in Syria prompting a fresh delay in a final advance, Kurdish-led forces said on Saturday. "There are still civilians inside in large numbers," US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Adnan Afrin told AFP...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said U.S.-backed fighters seized the last Islamic State enclave in eastern Syria on Saturday after the jihadists who were still there surrendered. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. The UK-based war monitoring group said the last...

Canada's public broadcaster said Tuesday it found in a trove of Twitter messages evidence of possible foreign actors trying to sow divisions between Canadians on pipelines, migrants and other hot-button issues. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) said it identified roughly 21,600...