The United States hasn’t taken any new material from the moon since the last Apollo landing in 1972. Now, NASA is releasing three new moon rock samples for analysis.

American and Chinese negotiators failed to reach a deal by midnight, so the United States has officially doubled tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports.

The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress, hours after President Trump asserted executive privilege over special counsel Bob Mueller’s report.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced that his country is taking steps to halt its compliance with elements of the landmark nuclear deal in response to Trump pulling out of the accord and stiffening sanctions on Tehran.

Pro-free-trade senators have tried private meetings with President Trump, op-eds in prominent newspapers and other tactics to warn Trump away from a new round of tariffs on foreign cars and auto parts.

Armed factions in Gaza said that they have agreed to a cease-fire with Israel that took hold in the early hours of Monday morning, after militants fired more than 600 rockets toward Israel this weekend. Israel responded with major airstrikes.

With little fanfare, the Trump administration has dramatically weakened offshore drilling safeguards that were put in place after the 2010 explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform.

Attorney General Bill Barr defended his handling of special counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation during an often-contentious Senate hearing yesterday.

Bob Mueller complained in a letter to Bill Barr that the four-page letter the attorney general sent to Congress describing the special counsel's principal conclusions did not “fully capture the context, nature and substance” of his work.

A major new survey shows growing numbers of people across the globe are dissatisfied with democracy and, even in the West, they’re becoming more susceptible to strongmen who promise easy solutions to complex problems.