The Latest Breaking News from Washington D.C.

Tensions with the United States are rising as Europe draws up plans to spend hundreds of billions of euros on defence. EU leaders say the bloc must prepare to rely less on American military support, but Washington has warned against shutting US arms makers out of future contracts. Analysts say…

The EU has said "everything is on the table" as it readies its response -- including possibly targeting US Big Tech and taxing more American goods -- to President Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs should talks with Washington fail.

Lawmakers in Oregon and Washington are considering whether striking workers should receive unemployment benefits

With populist leaders on the back foot and EU support at its highest in years, the US trade war could be an opportunity the union, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

The AGOA framework that saw African countries export duty free to the US is as good as dead, experts say.

Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel, among other tech executives, also own homes in Washington, DC

Federal immigration officials arrested 37 workers during a raid at Mt. Baker Roofing in Bellingham, Washington

Federal immigration enforcement officials have arrested 37 people in a raid at a roofing business in northern Washington state

Washington police arrested a weeping man in the woods after he allegedly stole his ex-girlfriend’s chicken named Polly.