There’s a lesson here for the UK and the anti-WHO Nigel Farage – Trump attacks it in public, but in private he knows he still needs it, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the Universi ...

The United States officially withdrew from the World Health Organization on Jan. 22, marking the end of its 78-year ...

The United States officially departed the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday, completing a process initiated by President Donald Trump following his second inauguration. Newsweek reached out ...

Americans think Joe Biden did a better job in the White House than Donald Trump has so far, according to new polls. A trio of ...

Reaction is pouring in after the death of t the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, who led the U.S. Civil Rights Movement for decades, died Tuesday. The protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time ...

Jackson was hospitalized in November after being diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a life-threatening neurological disorder similar to Parkinson’s disease.

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Former mayor and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros recalls chatting with Jackson on one of his presidential campaign visits to San Antonio.

The US has revoked what's known as the endangerment finding, a scientific finding central to US climate actions, to boost ...

Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84. The icon of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond was remembered by ...

A year into DNC Chair Ken Martin's reign, he's betting on organizing and infrastructure—not insiders—to turn momentum into ...

European allies at NATO on Thursday brushed aside concerns that the United States has stepped back from its leadership role ...