Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem toured facilities in Manta to evaluate a a site for an American base.

The U.S. transportation secretary says the move is an effort to relieve unpaid air-traffic controllers.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the agency may need to close "certain parts" of the nation's airspace if the shutdown drags on.

Many investors and observers have pinned the latest market pullback on a burst of trader wariness over highly-valued stocks. But Julian Emanuel and colleagues at Evercore ISI think it may primarily be anxiety over the longest U.

A U.S. naval destroyer docked on Sudan's Red Sea coast on Monday in the latest sign of thawing relations with the United States, a day after a visit by a Russian frigate.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed Monday during a meeting with students that there would be no move toward normalizing ties with Washington soon.

Despite their party’s lopsided victories in Tuesday’s elections, Senate Democrats remain torn over an exit strategy for what has become the longest partial government shutdown in history. As the shutdown reached its 36th day Wednesday,