UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – When the UN was scouting around for funds and a home for its headquarters in 1946, John D. Rockefeller Jr, a renowned American philanthropist, gifted $8.5 million for the ...

President Donald Trump is considering Richard Grenell and David Friedman for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.Grenell, a former ambassador to Germany, and Friedman, a former envoy to Israel, are ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is under pressure to ‘quickly iron out’ the New Yorker’s return to the House GOP top ranks.

President Donald Trump pulled the plug on Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations last week to bolster support for his agenda in Congress, marking what the New ...

The reason Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) is cooling her heels in the House instead of heading to the United Nations to give them hell at Turtle Bay is that Republicans have gotten a case of the nerves.