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Trump Threatens To Cancel California's $929 Million High Speed Rail Grant

The Trump administration says it intends to cancel a $929 million federal grant for California's high-speed rail project. Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom have spa...

Huawei's founder says 'no way US can crush us'

With Brexit approaching the United Kingdom will be removed from the European Union, and as we reported earlier the National Cyber Security Centre claims they co...

Trump Signs Directive That Would Place Space Force Within Air Force

In June, Trump appeared to call for the Space Force to be separate. DeSantis, participating in "Space Day" events Tuesday at the Capitol, said he is reque...

Pakistan says India using UN court for 'political theater'

He said Kulbhushan Jadhav arrest is clear evidence of India's involvement in distributing peace of its neighbouring countries. On Monday, Indian counsel Har...

Flynn pushed to share nuclear tech with Saudis

Despite the warnings from career White House staff-and an order by the NSC's top lawyer to stand down-the White House officials and their private-sector allies ...

Trump’s choice for United Nations envoy pulls out

Muscat: U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to be his country's new ambassador to the United Nations has withdrawn her candidacy, the State Department ann...

Trump urged acting attorney general to put ally on hush payments probe

As federal prosecutors in Manhattan gathered evidence late a year ago about President Trump's role in silencing women with hush payments during the 2016 campaig...

Final Islamic State village 'within firing range', says SDF commander

The US President Donald Trump has called upon the European nations to take back their foreign fighters. In his Saturday twitter, Trump also said that " the ...

Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner Finishes Prison Term

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote gave Weiner a 21-month sentence in September 2017 after he pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor. Clinton...

Crews Work to Rescue 16 People Trapped on SeaWorld Skyride

Seven of the passengers were children with the youngest being an infant. Everyone had been rescued by 11.07pm Pacific, after almost four hours in the air. "Grea...

North Korean envoy en route to Hanoi ahead of Trump-Kim summit

Some experts said he might return to provocations, but Mr Thae reckons that a more likely scenario would be one where the North exports its nuclear capability t...

Weather Authority: Next round of accumulating snow on Wednesday

There is a chance for some light snow in the early evening. An area of low pressure will affect the region on Wednesday and into Thursday morning. Ice wil...

Several trapped following avalanche in Switzerland

A view of the Crans Montana ski resort area in Valais Canton, Switzerland, taken on February 16, 2019, several days before an avalanche at the resort left sever...

Bernie Sanders launches second Democratic US presidential bid

Donald Trump won the election and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a young congresswoman from NY, is a rising Democratic star, embracing numerous positions held by Mr...

Winter Weather Advisory Issued For Tonight

Tuesday evening, we will see the rainfall turning to a wintry mix. Winter Storm Petra has dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the American West. If y...

Yemen's Warring Parties Agree to Start Withdrawal from Key Port Hodeidah

The two sides reached agreement at United Nations -brokered talks Sunday on the first phase of a mutual pullout agreed to in Sweden in December from the port ar...

Designer Karl Lagerfeld has died

A statement read out before the show on January 22 said: "Mr Lagerfeld, artistic director of Chanel, who was feeling exhausted, asked Virginie Viard, director o...

Back in the Bronx, Ocasio-Cortez says to keep up the fight

Congressional spouses get Gcal access all the time. "Next time check your facts before you tweet nonsense", Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. He also works with tech sta...

Danny Dyer Says ISIS Bride Shamima Begum Should Be Allowed UK Return

While it is unclear whether Begum committed any crimes and her legal status is uncertain, it's possible Begum could face charges for supporting IS if she return...

Rod Rosenstein will resign the Justice Department in mid-march

According to Fox, the new deputy attorney general would be Jeffrey Rosen , now the deputy secretary at the Transportation Department. An official announcemen...

Yellow vests hurl antisemitic insults at philosopher Alain Finkielkraut

Finkielkraut, the son of Polish immigrants, has previously expressed sympathy for the protesters, but also voiced criticism of the movement. Saturday's incide...

EU warns of reduced imports if Trump puts tariffs on cars

The bloc retaliated imposing duties on 2.8 billion euros of US imports, ranging from Harley-Davidson Inc. motorcycles to Levi Strauss & Co. jeans. Commission ...

Cancellation of Pakistan trip revives debate over Taliban's ability to travel

In a meeting with the U.S. special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Monday, the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani further urged the Taliban and the Pakistan to be open a...

WWII Navy Sailor in Iconic V-Day Photo Dead at 95

According to a report by the Providence Journal , he passed away this weekend in an assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island . Mendonsa was sho...

Roger Stone Apologizes to Judge for Instagram Post About Her

In a message that was posted, lambasted, deleted, edited, reposted and re-deleted over the course of a few hours on Monday, Stone claimed that "Deep State hitma...

Hundreds attend vigil for victims of Aurora plant shooting

In a post on Facebook Sunday morning, she wrote that Friday "was a literal nightmare". And I will cry out to God during this huge time of sadness and need. Wh...

3 children among 4 found dead with gunshot wounds in Michigan apartment

She said that investigators do not believe a suspect is at-large and or that there was any lasting threat to the public. LaJoye-Young said the three children ...

Army personnel martyred, 2 terrorists neutralised during encounter in Pulwama

The Army, along with the Jammu and Kashmir police, had launched a cordon and search operation overnight at Pinglan village in Pulwama district after a b...

Theresa May launches major push to reform Brexit deal as deadline looms

They insist it is better than the current proposal of keeping Britain in the EU customs union until a new UK-EU trade deal is struck. Tomorrow, Britain's Atto...

Political party networks caught up in parliament's IT breach

While the government has not identified the "state actor", the Chinese are being blamed. The activity was carried out by a "sophisticated state actor", he sai...

Facebook broke the law and behaved like a digital gangster, MPs say

What's next? Damian Collins MP, chair of the committee, said that he and lawmakers from nine countries (who agreed to cooperate on social media regulation l...

Inmates help break into SUV to rescue baby

The parents contacted the police, but they were also having trouble getting into the auto. "Surprised when somebody had a wire coat hanger, Deputy Richard Sta...

Japan Frets Over ‘Nightmare Scenario’ as Trump Meets Kim Again

Trump cited a 90-minute conversation he claimed to have had with the previous USA president in November 2016, when Obama transferred the presidency to the Repub...

Vegan parents 'almost starve baby son' feeding him potatoes instead of formula

Investigators were shocked to find that the infant weighed "only 8 pounds, 8 ounces after being recorded at birth at 7 pounds, 9 ounces", according to WFTV ne...

Marco Rubio Jets Into Colombia as More Aid Arrives for Venezuela

The Florida Republican on Sunday visited the border town of Cucuta, Colombia , where USA aid packages are being stockpiled for distribution by congressional le...