The Latest Breaking News from Washington D.C.

Trump administration wants Israel ‘to come to its senses’ and strike a ceasefire deal on Gaza, Israeli media reports.

An escalating trade war with the U.S. is now crippling an entire industry that hand-harvests geoducks, leaving Washington state divers without work, Seattle exporters without business and Chinese aficionados with fewer of these prized clams.

The escalating trade war between the US and China has severely impacted the geoduck industry in Washington state.

When the Trump administration kneecapped a key federal program that funds electric-vehicle charging infrastructure in February, it seemed inevitable that lawsuits would follow. Three months later, a group of 16 states, including California, New York, Colorado and Washington, have sued the federal government in an effort to keep money for…

Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed a bill into law that sets limits on rent increases

Senior negotiators hope to get agreement with US signed ahead of UK-EU summit on 19 May

D.C. is on edge as reports show ICE raided local businesses and restaurants earlier this week across the town. No detentions have been confirmed.

Move sparks outrage in Iran as diplomats try to broker deal between Tehran and Washington over nuclear programme

Trump administration launches review after what it calls ‘recent incidents of antisemitic violence’ at school

For much of April and into May, a team of negotiators from Indonesia have been in Washington to discuss trading relations between the world’s largest economy and another forecast to be in the Top 5 within a generation.

Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a process aimed at ending the fighting in eastern Congo and attracting billions of dollars in Western investment, according to the senior adviser for Africa to US President Donald Trump earlier this week.