ABCNews.com

Hong Kong has launched a public consultation for its first five-year plan in a politically symbolic step that brings it closer to mainland China’s development approach

A California labor union is offering to scale back a proposal to temporarily increase taxes on billionaires

The White House says Vice President JD Vance is delaying a trip to Switzerland to lead a new round of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program — raising questions about what’s next for the tentative agreement to end the war

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi

The Bank of Japan has raised its benchmark interest rate to 1%, citing challenges stemming from a weak Japanese yen and higher prices

Cuba’s Communist Party has approved an emergency economic package featuring unprecedented free-market measures to open up the struggling island’s economy

The number of Americans applying for jobless aid fell modestly last week as layoffs remained in the same historically low range of recent years

Qantas Airways plans to launch the world’s longest direct flight next year, a service of up to 22 hours nonstop between London and Sydney

The Slovak government faces a parliamentary confidence vote after the country's debt exceeded constitutional fiscal limits

Points of Light plans to unveil a strategy to boost volunteerism in the U.S. next week at its annual conference

Russians President Vladimir Putin hosted leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, seeking to bolster business and other ties with members of the regional bloc