Workers erected barricades around a Manhattan courthouse on Monday as New York City braced for a possible indictment of Donald Trump, in what would be the first-ever criminal case against any U.S. president.
The latest burst of heavy, wind-blown rain and snow churned out of the Pacific into California on Tuesday, triggering scattered floods and mudslides, uprooting trees and leaving thousands of storm-weary residents under evacuation orders.
Protesters set piles of rubbish on fire in central Paris after President Emmanuel Macron's government narrowly survived a no-confidence motion in parliament over a deeply unpopular pension reform.
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a visit seen as a boost to Moscow as it struggles to make ground in its year-long war on Ukraine.
The 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was meant to topple a dictator who had inflicted reckless wars and economic misery on his fellow Iraqis, and then to usher in a thriving democracy. Instead, Iraqis faced years of upheaval and chaos.