The number of Americans filing unemployment claims last week fell slightly as businesses continue to retain employees despite growing economic uncertainty over U.S. trade policy.

The State Department office that handles refugee issues will lead the U.S. response to overseas disasters, according an internal department cable.

Pope Leo XIV says the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, "the heartbreaking price of which is paid by children, the elderly, the sick," must end and food must be allowed in.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its aid programs worldwide have been "devastating." Speaking beside South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a White House visit,

(Reuters) -Bankrupt Rite Aid on Wednesday received court approval to close stores and sell most of its pharmacy assets in separate transactions to CVS, Walgreens, Albertsons, Kroger and Giant Eagle, among others.