Iran's joint military command says on state TV that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and cites Israeli attacks in Lebanon

The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy

The head of Latin America’s top development bank has made a case to Pope Leo XIV about the potential of rare earth mining

Mourners in eastern Congo have gathered to bury a 6-month-old girl who died from Ebola earlier this week

Observers are calling Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul on the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution while the grandson of former President Raúl Castro says in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward

Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group agreed to halt the heavy fighting in southern Lebanon that had threatened to unravel an interim peace agreement between the United States and Iran

Andy Burnham is a political insider turned outsider aiming to be Britain’s next prime minister

One of the few Black-owned banks in the U.S. is introducing a debit card aimed at helping single mothers who live in government subsidized housing escape poverty

Israel and Hezbollah agree to renew ceasefire after fighting postpones Iran-US talks in Switzerland, three officials say