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First Lady Melania Trump visits Hampton Roads

Trump has repeatedly attacked the press as "fake news" and referred to them as the "enemy of the people". Melania Trump has drawn mockery on several front...

Brexit: May rebuffed by European Union leaders in Brussels

Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull reports from Brussels. "When the dust has settled, the only way we're going to get this through the House of Commons ... is to have a ...

Turkey will 'walk into' Manbij if United States doesn't remove YPG - Erdogan

SDF commander-in-chief Mazloum Kobani told Reuters on Thursday that there were believed to be about 5,000 Islamic State fighters holed up in the pocket of t...

Shutdown looms as Trump weighs next move on border wall

But now his tone has softened. "When my Republican friends (had control) they were essentially ineffective", Carson said. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelo...

"All animals are accounted for" after huge fire at Chester Zoo

The cause of the fire is now unknown, but we will be helping the relevant authorities with the investigation that will take place over the coming days and weeks...

Trump's son-in-law Kushner possible next chief of staff: US media

The president said that Mr Mulvaney "has done an outstanding job while in the administration". "The President told him we need him in Congress so he can con...

Ryan Zinke: US interior secretary to leave administration

President Trump tweeted on Saturday morning that Zinke, who has held the position for nearly two years, would be leaving the administration. He is the late...

Supreme Court dismisses all pleas against Rafale deal; Opposition demands JPC probe

He also said the deal has protected the security of the country. The deal has been caught in controversy since September when Francois Hollande, who was the F...

France Steps up Security With Spain After Strasbourg Shooting

The man suspected of killing and wounding multiple people at Strasbourg's famed Christmas market was killed by French police, following a shoot-out not fa...

Melania Trump Calls Journalists 'Opportunists' Piggybacking On Husband's Fame

Trump said the hardest part in her role was coping with people who she said frequently "use" her and her husband. Among the groups of opportunists she named w...

Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Australia will establish a defence and trade office in Jerusalem, although moving the nation's embassy to the city from Tel Aviv will be delayed until the statu...

Sri Lanka’s prime minister to step down seven weeks after appointment

The President removed Ranil Wickremesinghe from the post of Prime Minister on October 26th and appointed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Min...

May confronts Juncker in Thatcher-style ‘handbag moment’ over Brexit

British Prime Minister Theresa May remonstrated with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at a Brussels summit and he seemed anxious to placate...

The politics of a plot to kill Sri Lanka's President

President Maithripala Sirisena dismissed his prime minister and replaced him with former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in late October. The seven-judge bench u...

Pope removes 2 scandal struck cardinals from advisory council

According to the Vatican , the Cardinals were removed from the Pope's inner circle and will no longer sit on the Council of Cardinals, set up by the pope as ...

Newspaper: Turkey plans new Syria offensive within days

Mattis also used the informal session to announce that small units from among the estimated 2,000 USA troops in Syria would move north to set up observation p...

EU leaders unmoved by May's plea over Brexit deal

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made clear that he doesn't intend to stay in Brussels to oversee Brexit negotiations over Christmas. "I don't ex...

7-Year-Old Immigrant Girl Dies In Border Patrol Custody

What happened here is that they were 90 miles away from where we could process them. "We'll continue to look into the situation, but, again, I can not stress en...

Pelosi wins over critics by agreeing to 4 years as House speaker

On that day, Pelosi must secure 218 votes when the entire chamber votes on a speaker. Pelosi overwhelmingly won the nomination for speaker on November 28 with 3...

Trump inauguration spending reportedly under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors

The alleged investigation by the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office into the record $107 million raised for the inauguration includes probes into whether the co...

Cash spills onto highway causing vehicle crashes

The Brinks truck idled in the right shoulder with its lights flashing as the bills blew around the highway. Drivers may have thought they hit the lottery when...

Troops from 2 Koreas check removal of each other’s border posts

A USA archbishop will travel to South Korea next week in a bid to assist their Korean Catholic counterparts' efforts to build peace with North Korea, the loca...

Michael Flynn Asks Court For No Prison Time

Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian Federation and whether the president obstructed the investiga...

John Bolton unveils new Africa strategy based on "America First" principles

He claimed both nations "aggressively" target the region to gain a competitive advantage over the U.S. Bolton accused both nations of "predatory investment pr...

Hingham businesses evacuated for bomb threats

No information is yet available on which buildings or businesses in the city received these threats, which according to reports , consisted of nearly-identical...

Threat Of Explosives At Columbine High School Prompts 24 School Lockdowns

In 1999, two students shot dead 13 people at Columbine High School in what was the deadliest school shooting in United States history. Mike Taplin, spokesman ...

Accused Russian Agent Pleads Guilty in US Court

Butina and her Russian handler, a figure prosecutors label in court papers as "Russian Official" but who has been identified as Alexander Torshin , an official...

Polish chairman says United Nations climate talks call for higher effort

Since 2 December, the conference has brought together thousands of climate action decision-makers, advocates and activists, with one key objective: adopting glo...

Toledo, Ohio Man Arrested For Planning Synagogue Attack

Groups also thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies for working to capture Damon Joseph , 21, who had planned to target ...

May tours Europe in desperate bid to save Brexit deal

Jean-Claude Juncker said the Withdrawal Agreement on offer was the "best deal possible" and the "only deal possible" as the Prime Minister embarked on emergency...

No Filipinos hurt in Turkey train crash: DFA

Speaking to reporters at the crash site, Ankara Governor Vasip Sahin said the high speed train had crashed into a locomotive which carries out track inspect...

Macron to speed up tax cuts, raise wages after protests

The former banker-turned-President added: "We will respond to the economic and social urgency with strong measures, by cutting taxes more rapidly, by keeping ou...

Mika Brzezinksi Apologizes for Awful Slur of Mike Pompeo

Pompeo and President Trump have repeatedly told press that they have no evidence to conclusively prove that the Saudi crown prince was complicit in Khashoggi'...

Finding a White House chief of staff turns into a scramble

White House chief of staff John Kelly is scheduled to leave January 2. "I know they both love this country and want there to be a transition to the next lea...

Siberian serial killer cop convicted of dozens more murders

It took law enforcement officers doing a thorough work of analysing unsolved crimes to link Popkov to them, including questioning more than a thousand potenti...