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After campaigning on a promise to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, White House officials now say that placing over 700,000 young people in immigration limbo is no longer a top priority. Instead, they will focus limited enforcement resources on criminals and national security threats.

Iraqi forces have liberated the eastern half of Mosul from ISIS' grip, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi reported Tuesday on state television.

Mexico's biggest cash cow is under threat from President Donald Trump.

After months of media hype, a political neophyte with strong opinions, a brash style and extreme wealth gets into the race.

Pope Francis has forced the head of an ancient Catholic order to resign in an unusually public rebuke of conservative leadership within the Catholic Church.

It's a sight that's been greeting travelers for thousands of years.

Israel approved the construction of approximately 2,500 new housing units in West Bank settlements Tuesday, according to a statement from Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Swedish police investigating allegations that a woman was gang raped live on Facebook have arrested three men.

With 14 people now dead after an avalanche wrecked an Italian hotel, news reports emerged that its director urgently called for assistance just hours before disaster struck last week.

It's now clear that the election of Donald Trump will dramatically alter the shape of the world's economy for the foreseeable future. But based on his executive action to withdraw from the negotiating process of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), this reshaping will not be for the benefit of US workers and citizens.

An emergency helicopter crashed in the mountains of central Italy Tuesday, killing at least six people.

Let's hear it for tennis' old-timers. Roger Federer became the oldest men's semifinalist at the Australian Open in 39 years, hours after Venus Williams became the oldest women's semifinalist in Melbourne in the Open Era.

President Trump has a beef with NATO. He's called the alliance "obsolete" and accused other members of not spending their fair share.

She is the woman who took on the government and won. But Gina Miller, the London-based businesswoman behind a landmark Brexit legal challenge, has suffered months of threats and racially abusive trolling in the process.

Venus Williams' morning didn't go as planned. Her coach, David Witt, said Williams woke up late.

Here we go again. The bad old days of United States foreign assistance are coming back, now that President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the global gag rule on overseas discussion of abortion by individuals and organizations receiving federal funding. We have been here twice before -- under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush -- and we know that this order often backfires, leading to increased abortion rates.

Britain's Supreme Court has ruled that the UK government must hold a vote in parliament before beginning the process of leaving the European Union.

Sean Spicer's cautious comments at the White House press briefing on moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem suggest that the incoming Trump administration is taking its time considering whether to make good on the President's campaign promise.

They may be in opposite corners of the globe, but Hong Kong, Sydney and Vancouver have one thing in common.