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Quake rattles greater Seattle area; no link to California

According to the United States Geological Survey , the quake was recorded at 2:51 a.m.at Three Lakes, Wash., in Snohomish County. Exactly one week after 3 s...

Storming Area 51 sparks interest, jokes among million social media users

The ironic Facebook event , dubbed " Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us ", has almost 365,000 confirmed attendees, and some 384,000 interested in the mis...

US Mulling 18-Month Sanctions Relief on North Korea

The Hwasong-14, another North Korean ICBM tested in mid-2017, was also mentioned in the report , and said to be capable of reaching "most" of the United States...

Postponed ICE Raids Happening In SF On Sunday

Trump later announced those operations were being postponed. "I'll reshape CBP and ICE from top to bottom, focusing their efforts on homeland security effo...

Embattled Labor Secretary Alex Acosta stepping down

However, Acosta failed to stem the tide of criticism against him and therefore, I suspect, to satisfy President Trump that he would not remain a political lia...

Coast Guard seizes about 40,000 pounds drugs on high seas

When they hear no response, the boat appears to ram into the submarine and two coast guards jump on top of it. "That's going to be hard to get on", he say...

House judiciary votes to subpoena 12 linked to Russian Federation probe

The subpoena targets include Jared Kushner , Trump's son-in-law; Jeff Sessions , the former attorney general; Rod Rosenstein , the former deputy attorney gen...

First S-400 Missile System Parts Land in Turkey, Russia Confirms

The United States has warned Turkey it will face economic sanctions if it goes ahead with the purchase of a Russian missile defense system. The first S-400 pa...

New York Couple Implanted with Wrong Embryos

Anni and Ashot Manukyan of California had no idea one of their embryos had been implanted in another woman until two weeks after she'd given birth - and even th...

BBC documentary exposes rampant Labour anti-Semitism

That former officials tasked with presiding over internal inquiries felt it necessary to break non-disclosure agreements to express their misgivings speaks volu...

Financier in sex abuse case went from math whiz to titan

She told reporters Tuesday that it was "no surprise" Trump was standing by Acosta. Some members of Congress and Democratic presidential candidates are calli...

Tommy Robinson is jailed for nine months for contempt of court

The activist's Telegram account slammed the court's ruling and called on his supporters to protest it. Tommy Robinson has been sent back to prison after being...

Iran’s defence minister says Britain’s seizure of oil tanker was threatening act

Iran's state-run IRNA news agency called the incident "an illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker". Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday he consi...

Ridgecrest quake suspected of killing man in Nevada

Sgt. Adam Tippetts with the Nye County Sheriff's Office said. Deputies sent to the rural property, on the northeast outskirts of the border town, found the ma...

Mexico finance minister quits over Lopez Obrador 'disagreements'

Urzua said he felt forced to quit by such policy disagreements. The Mexican peso fell more than two percent on the news, and the benchmark index slid nearly...

Georgia Mother Orders Moana-Themed Cake, Gets Marijuana Instead

A Georgia woman said a miscommunication while ordering her birthday cake led to dessert having a marijuana theme rather than the intended Moana theme. The p...

PAPUA NEW GUINEA Papua New Guinea, tribal violence explodes

Philip Undialu, governor of Hela Province in the central highlands where the attack took place on Monday, said: "It's a very sad story". William Bando, prov...

American billionaire politician Ross Perot dies

Perot had leukemia, Dallas News reported , saying the illness was diagnosed in February. He ultimately won only 8% of the popular vote, which was higher tha...

UK Ambassador Who Called Trump 'Dysfunctional' Resigns

Expectedly, Farage, who had helped Trump in the 2016 US Presidential elections, was quick to call for the sacking of the British envoy hours after the leaked...

Attorney: Man who killed black teen over rap music is mentally ill

Adams told authorities rap music makes him feel "unsafe" and he had an incident with someone who listened to the genre in the past. Hundreds of people includi...

Armenia urges Turkey to cease all activities within Cyprus EEZ

The EU had already urged Turkey last month to stop its gas drilling in waters around Cyprus. "This provocative step raises tensions in the region", it added...

Judge blocks government lawyers from quitting census fight

The Justice Department offered no explanation for why the lawyers were withdrawing and, on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said the government's...

Iran's Military Chief Of Staff Threatens Britain For Seizure Of Oil Tanker

Rouhani also said Iran's decision to increase uranium enrichment would produce fuel for power plants and serve other peaceful aims, and that it was within the...

Washington DC hit by torrential rain, flooding, United States News & Top Stories

Video shared on social media by residents also document flooded parking garages and even impromptu waterfalls inside the U.S. capital's Metro transit system. El...

Iran enriching uranium to 4.5% purity, IAEA tells member states

President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that USA sanctions on Iran would be increased "substantially" soon, as the United Nations nuclear watchdog held an ...

Boeing falls behind Airbus in deliveries as 737 MAX crisis bites

US top aircraft manufacturer Boeing Company said Tuesday it delivered 24 737 commercial airplanes in the second quarter of 2019, a drastic fall of about 73 pe...

Angela Merkel pictured shaking for third time in recent weeks

German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to be shaking in Berlin on Wednesday while receiving Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne, according to reporters an...

Judge Amit Mehta rejects Trump rule to help rein in drug prices

Mehta also said he wasn't questioning the motives of the Health and Human Services Department, which issued the price disclosure rule. A US federal judge rule...

What is Labour's position on a second referendum?

They're now publicly endorsing a second referendum and say that if it's a choice between the current Conservative deal, no deal or no Brexit at all, they'd back...

NY governor signs bill allowing release of president's state tax returns

The new law could give Congress a way around the Republican president's refusal to release his returns, though it's expected to face legal challenges. "I am con...

Barr: Mueller's Hill testimony will be 'public spectacle'

The House Judiciary Committee intends to authorize subpoenas to 12 of former special counsel Robert Mueller's witnesses - including President Donald Trump's...

Trump and Xi talked by phone on Tuesday, no details reported

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Tuesday evening held a telephone conversation with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven M...

France unveils plans for new €180m aviation tax

The amount of tax due will depend on where the plane is heading and the type of ticket bought, costing anywhere from one to 20 USA dollars. A similar Air Pass...

Report finds FBI, ICE using driver license photos with facial recognition technology

The FBI has also logged more than 390,000 facial-recognition searches of government databases since 2011, including DMV data, the Government Accountability Of...

Trump calls May foolish as diplomatic row escalates

Hunt, who is Britain's foreign secretary, reprimanded Trump on Tuesday, tweeting that his comments were " disrespectful and wrong to our Prime Minister and m...