Today’s Lead News Stories

House Republicans have included in President Donald Trump's big priority bill a 5% excise tax on some of the funds sent by migrant workers back to their home countries

US president meets Syrian counterpart in Saudi Arabia after agreeing to lift sanctions. Plus, why men cause more greenhouse gas emissions on average than women

‘We are deeply committed, in love, and we are ethically non-monogamous,” Yvonne Rorrer wrote on social media over the weekend

Music mogul’s former girlfriend describes physical abuse, control and violence at trial in New York City

Erik and Lyle Menendez, convicted of murdering their parents in 1989, had their sentences reduced to 50 years to life and are now eligible for parole.

Four men were climbing in Washington’s North Cascades mountains when they fell roughly 400 feet

US president talks to Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia as lifting of sanctions is met with jubilation in Damascus

Sullivan, who was released after being exonerated by DNA evidence, said he was ‘not angry’ or ‘bitter’.

Pakistan returned a captured border guard to India on Wednesday, in a fresh sign of detente after a ceasefire ended four days of conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals.

Far-right candidate George Simion, who took the lead in the first round of the Romanian parliamentary elections on 4 May, will face off against the centrist mayor of Bucharest, Nicușor Dan, in the second round on Sunday. The election is a re-run, after November 2024's vote was annulled. RFI spoke…

Kremlin refuses to say whether Russian president will be part of delegation