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Trump says he'll nominate William Barr to be attorney general

Barr has said political donations show Mueller's team of professional prosecutors tilt uncomfortably to the left. According to the Washington Post , "two pe...

As Mueller investigation heats up, Trump unleashes barrage of tweets attacking investigators

In a later tweet, Trump said his lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, would release a response to any conclusions Mueller reports. Mueller's offi...

CNN's NY offices given all-clear after bomb threat

TV station WNBC reported , citing a police official, that the caller claimed there were five bombs in the Time Warner building but did not substantiate that th...

Imran Khan: We're not your 'hired gun' anymore, Imran Khan tells US

Asked to elaborate on the ideal nature of relationship that he would like to have with the US, Khan said: "For instance, our relationship with China is not one-...

US, South Korea to hold talks on North's denuclearization

In August , a United Nations watchdog warned that North Korea was still working on developing its nuclear arsenal. Officials from the Pentagon and the State...

Israel tells Lebanon and United Nations peacekeepers to destroy attack tunnel

On Thursday, the the IDF revealed the identity of a Hezbollah operative caught on camera in one of the cross-border attack tunnels. Some in Lebanon have que...

Wisconsin Republicans Pass Legislation to Reduce Powers of Governor, Attorney General

Scott Walker . "The will of the people has officially been ignored by the Legislature", Evers said at a press conference, "Wisconsin should be embarrassed b...

It's my deal, no deal or no Brexit: Theresa May

She confirmed she was in discussions with MPs opposed to the deal about giving parliament a say in whether the United Kingdom entered backstop arrangements ...

Trump to name former Fox anchor Heather Nauert as next United Nations ambassador

Her appointment to the United Nations role would have to be approved by the US Senate. President Trump is expected to announce Friday his nomination of Nauert a...

Trump allegedly hired illegal immigrants to work at his golf course

Morales expects that she and her colleagues will lose their jobs over this, but said they're willing to pay the price to come forward. An employee of the golf c...

Dad's lesson on bullying goes viral

A United States father's decision to make his 10-year-old daughter walk kilometres to school over three days as punishment for bullying is causing controversy a...

Luxembourg eyes free public transport

In a bid to do away with its traffic woes and keep up with its promises of social welfare, the Xavier Bettel-led government in Luxembourg has made a decision to...

Police increasingly concerned for backpacker missing in New Zealand

Ms Millane is said to have been in New Zealand for about two weeks, and was staying at a backpackers' hostel in Auckland city centre. Others have her in a black...

Cards Against Humanity buys part of anti-Immigrant Trump Wall

Funding is set to expire on December 7 for some federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security and Internal Revenue Service, which would trigger...

Mattis and Pompeo 'misleading' in Khashoggi briefing, senator says

Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was a "wrecking ball" and that "he's complicit in the murder of Mr. Khashoggi to the high...

China confident of agreeing United States trade deal despite Trump's combative stance

This year, the Trump administration instigated a trade war on Beijing , imposing tariffs on a total of $250bn of Chinese imports. The economic agreement U...

India Condemns Terror Attack In Iran's Chabahar

IRNA also cited unnamed sources as saying that sporadic shooting had followed the explosion. Iranian authorities said Rigi who headed the militant group Jundo...

'Use Marijuana to stay awake': Philippine president jokes about drug use

He said that meetings of country heads should only be for "urgent and immediate concerns", when major events in the summit happened "every 30 minutes". Marijuan...

US urges Europe to impose sanctions on Iran over missiles

The deal was meant to ensure that Iran would not attempt to secretly develop nuclear weapons, an ambition that the country always denied having. Iran's forei...

S. Korean President: Visit from North Korea Kim `a Possibility`

Moon and his wife, Kim Jung-sook, arrived in the South Pacific nation late Sunday after attending the Group of 20 Nations summit in Argentina. Instead, the se...

Two US Marine planes crash while refueling off Japan

It was not clear how many crew members were on each of the planes. The military did not release the circumstances of the crash, saying the accident was still ...

Beyonce leads all-star line-up at Mandela tribute concert

The festival, which is a part of the Global Citizens movement to "end extreme poverty", commemorates 100 years since Nelson Mandela was born. Many people got ...

Around 90 mafia suspects held in worldwide sweep

Cafiero De Raho said the raids are just one stage in a long-term fight against organized crime. The homes of high-ranking mobsters were also targeted, with po...

PETA wants you to stop saying 'bring home the bacon'

PETA wants people to stop using common phrases such as "bring home the bacon", calling it anti-animal language that trivializes cruelty to animals. The twe...

Facebook collected records of users' text and phone calls, secret documents reveal

UK Parliament published excerpts from sensitive internal Facebook documents on Wednesday as part of its investigation into fake news and the fallout from the ...

Soros-Founded University Says "Forced Out Of Budapest"

He called the move unprecedented, saying it was the first time a USA institution had been driven out by a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally. "A European i...

Walker signals support for lame-duck package

The Wisconsin Elections Commission is warning state lawmakers that moving the state's 2020 presidential primary would be "extraordinarily hard". The state...

Security guard arrested in presumed death of woman in Costa Rica

She had also said she was thirsty and was going to ask one of the security guards outside of the Airbnb to buy her a bottle of water. Stefaniak, 36, and Apr...

George HW Bush's service dog Sully pays touching last tribute

George H.W. Bush is set to embark on his final tour of Washington, the US capital that is remembering the 41st president's lifetime of public service that began...

Chris Dawson from Teacher's Pet podcast arrested by homicide squad

Police say she went missing in Sydney's northern beaches in 1982 and her body has never been recovered. "That information enabled New South Wales Police t...

Giuliani Gets Mad At Twitter, Doesn't Seem To Understand How It Works

Echoing a common cry - sometimes made by Trump himself - that Silicon Valley's digital giants are biased against Conservative voices, Giuliani suggested that ...

Yemen’s Houthi delegation leaves for Stockholm peace talks

They had asked for assurances that it would not be stopped for inspection in Djibouti and they also wanted some of their injured fighters to be evacuated to O...

British middleman hauled to India over chopper scam

James, 57, was accompanied by some CBI , Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Ministry of External Affairs officials, added the news agency. He reached the CBI...

Save US-Russia nuclear treaty, European Union urges

NATO accuses Russian Federation of breaking European Union missile treaty: NATO has formally accused Russian Federation of breaching a cold war treaty, which ...

Trump Touts Benefits of China Trade Truce for U.S. Farmers

President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping and Beijing has vowed to take immediate steps on those promises. On Twitter, he said farmers would be a "v...