Aboard the USS George Washington, Trump rallied an audience of US troops and hailed the US-Japan alliance, which he described as being "born out of the ashes" of the Second World War.Here are some of the highlights from his speech:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. military has carried out strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean on four boats accused of carrying drugs, killing 14 people and leaving one survivor in the deadliest single day since the Trump administration began its divisive campaign against drug trafficking in the

The U.S. military killed 14 alleged drug smugglers in strikes targeting four vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday that left one survivor, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post ...

To date, those operations have destroyed a total of 14 boats and killed 57 people — with three total survivors.

A federal judge on Tuesday extended a block preventing President Donald Trump's administration from laying off thousands of federal employees amid a nearly month-long partial government shutdown.

The meeting, the first between the pair during Trump’s second term, would happen on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO summit, where Trump is expected to deliver an address.

Global stocks rallied at the start of the week over hopes that Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will agree to extend the US-China truce on tariffs.

China’s top trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, told reporters that the two sides had reached a “preliminary consensus,” while Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said there was “a very successful...