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IL to legalize recreational marijuana in January 2020

While marijuana consumption and possession will become legal for IL residents over 21 years of age starting January 1, 2020, consumption in public places will s...

RUSSIA The Council of Europe removes sanctions against Russia

Most of lawmakers, 77 of 136, opposed the inclusion of this issue in PACEÂ´s working agenda until June 28. " Russia's departure from the Council would deny R...

1 killed in Eurofighter collision over eastern Germany

The spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has confirmed the accident, adding that the minister intends to visit the site of the catast...

Robert Mueller Will Testify Publicly About His Investigation

Mr Mueller issued a report in April on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election . The announcement comes after House Judiciary Committee Chairman ...

US' Mike Pompeo discusses Iran with Gulf allies amid escalating crisis

Iran has denied seeking a nuclear weapon, and says its programme is for civilian purposes. Meanwhile, Mr Pompeo emphasised Washington's short-term priority i...

Czechs demand PM Andrej Babis quit in biggest protest since communism

Mr Babis is facing a criminal investigation over alleged fraud, and is also the subject of an European Union conflict-of-interest investigation. The protest...

First lady announces her spokeswoman as new White House press secretary

A Washington Post profile on Grisham from December 2018 said that Grisham, who has been with Trump since the first month that he launched his presidential c...

Over 100 migrant children returned to 'horrific' border station

U.S Customs and Border Protection told The Associated Press that the "short-term holding facilities were not created to hold vulnerable populations and we u...

Mexico Sends 15,000 Troops to Border with U.S.

Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said the personnel is a mix of army units and the country's national guard, and he acknowledged they are detaining migr...

SCOTUS: Ban on "FUCT" trademark registration violates First Amendment

In another free speech case decided previous year, the Supreme Court ruled that states can not impose a blanket prohibition on apparel such as T-shirts and bu...

Iran diplomat calls talks with United Kingdom minister 'repetitive'

CrowdStrike shared images of the spear-phishing emails with The AP. Another email was more generic and appeared to include details on updating Microsoft Outlook...

Trump won't say if he'll ask FBI to probe Khashoggi killing

A kill squad of Saudi agents carried out the operation, cutting the journalists body into pieces with a bone saw. Trump did not answer directly, when asked on...

Trump Issues Executive Order on Healthcare Price Transparency

Tom Nickels, the American Hospital Association's executive vice president for government relations and public policy, said the order's language "is pretty vague...

Rouhani says USA 'lying' about talks offer, suffers from 'mental retardation'

He pointed to his administration's assessment that Iran was behind attacks earlier this month on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, . something Tehran stron...

Trump Denies Carroll Sexual Assault Accusation By Claiming 'She's Not My Type'

Carroll said that, in a "colossal struggle", she pushed him off and ran from the store. She said in an interview on CNN that Trump threw her up against a wall...

Mackenzie Lueck got into a Lyft a week ago. Now she's missing

The police have not discovered anything at this point that would lead them to believe Lueck is in danger, Salt Lake City Police Sargeant Brandon Shearer tol...

Saudi-Led Coalition Targets Houthi Military Positions in Yemen's Hudaydah

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they launched military operations against the Saudi airport, according to a report broadcast on the Houthi-linked...

Trump Says New Nafta Ends Competition With Canada and Mexico

The aura of restraint that Trump projected came on a tense morning as his administration was seized with responding to Iran's Revolutionary Guard shooting down ...

Iran executes 'defence ministry contractor' over spying for CIA

The UAE is a stop on a regional tour created to increase coordination with Washington's regional allies as tensions continue to simmer. Hostilities between th...

Trump announces new sanctions on Iran

And this week, we watch the administration attempt to rally a global coalition to confront Iran , as the president says: "We do not seek conflict with Iran or ...

Iran wants to talk with USA after Trump eases 'maximum pressure' campaign

The Washington Post said on Saturday that the cyber strikes, which had been planned previously, had disabled Iranian rocket launch systems. But U.S. A sur...

Immigrant activists react to President Trump's two-week delay on planned raids

President Donald Trump's tweeted that ICE, the enforcement arm of DHS, was preparing to deport "millions" of undocumented immigrants next week. "The Presid...

Mom from Queens latest tourist to die in Dominican Republic

Caruso isn't the only local on the list of Americans who died while on vacation in the country. At least nine American citizens have died at Dominican Republi...

As Trump's sanctions bite, Iran's oil exports slide further in June

On Sunday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a US-made MQ9 Reaper "spy drone" - also widely used for carrying out military strikes - had encro...

Deluge of Democratic presidential hopefuls descends on SC

The South Carolina state party convention is part of a big political weekend for the South's first primary state, with more than 20 candidates campaigning at va...

Johnson domestic 'row' rocks United Kingdom leadership race

Miss Truss also said Mr Johnson would call the bluff of rebel Tory MPs threatening to bring down the Government if he pushed through a No Deal Brexit, adding: '...

1 dead, 10 injured in shooting outside of South Bend bar

The 37-year-old mayor of the small city in IN spoke at a sometimes contentious town hall meeting that was called a week after a white officer, Sgt Ryan O'Neill,...

Civil rights leader John Lewis not offended by Biden’s work with segregationists

Biden will nearly certainly come under fire there for his comments this week. Biden stipulated that Talmadge was "one of the meanest guys I ever knew" and tha...

Death toll from Cambodia building collapse rises World News

More than 30 people are missing and feared to be trapped under a mountain of twisted steel and rubble, said Oar Saroeun, spokesperson for the local province of ...

U.S. launches cyber-attack, imposes 'major' sanctions on Iran

The downing of a USA surveillance drone on Thursday by Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC ) had brought the two foes to the brink of wa...

U.S. plan aims to raise $50bn, create million Palestinian jobs

Set to be presented by Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner at a workshop in Bahrain on June 25-26, the blueprint envisions a global investment fund to lift t...

1-magnitude quake rocks Indonesia's Papua

The US Geological Survey said the massive quake was centred 208km below the earth's surface. Residents in Darwin spoke of strong shaking in the area. "I'm a l...

Trump nominates Army veteran Mark Esper as defence secretary

United States President Donald Trump has nominated Mark Esper , an army veteran, to be the next defence secretary, as the Pentagon faces a leadership va...

MI man dead after multiple shootings at bar in South Bend, Indiana

Buttigieg says he'll send a letter to the federal Department of Justice's civil rights division and notify the local prosecutor that he'd like an independent in...

U.S. is blacklisting five Chinese groups involved in supercomputing work

DeBusk added: "However, the Chinese may see this as ill-timed bullying". The ban affects AMD's Chinese joint venture THATIC, which was established in 20...