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Hurricane Aletta a Category 4 storm in Pacific off Mexico

Hurricane Aletta, which formed early Wednesday, achieved hurricane status on Thursday afternoon after its sustained winds climbed to 120 km/h. The storm has max...

Trump says he will ask kneeling athletes to recommend people to pardon

The President now has the authority to add tariffs without approval from Congress, and has most recently used this under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Ac...

Trump advisers lash out at Trudeau

To many observers the photograph, a rare glimpse of diplomatic activity not wreathed in smiles and handshakes, seemed both a summation of the effect of Trump'...

Queen Elizabeth Underwent Cataract Surgery Last Month

The Queen had surgery last month to remove a cataract from her eye, Buckingham Palace has said. Britain's Queen Elizabeth , attends the opening of "The Que...

Former Congolese Vice President Cleared Of War Crimes Conviction On Appeal

Bemba, a former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, had been sentenced to 18 years in prison in June 2016 for alleged crimes including murder ...

UK Supreme Court declines ruling Northern Ireland’s abortion law

Together For Yes co-founder Ailbhe Smyth said she welcomed the ruling because the majority of the judges involved in the case said Northern Ireland's laws w...

US Plans to Release American Captured in Syria in September

Justice Department lawyers representing the US military in the case made a commitment not to release the man until at least June 21st during an appearance in fe...

Muhammad Ali's lawyer responds to President Trump's pardon offer

Ali, who was known as Cassius Clay before converting to Islam, was sentenced to five years in jail and fined $10,000 for refusing to enter the USA military wh...

Updated: Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Ramallah

The protests have seen thousands gather to demand the right of return to their families' lost homes or lands, now in Israel. In an English-language column pub...

Copy-Trump criticizes Justin Trudeau, says US won't endorse G7 communique

Mr Trump has planned to leave the summit mid-morning on Saturday (local time), four hours earlier than originally planned, to fly to Singapore to meet with No...

Trump to leave G7 early, tensions high after 'rant' over trade

I mean, we have India, where some of the tariffs are 100 percent. "Canadians are polite and reasonable but we will also not be pushed around" - host Prime Min...

Stormy Daniels Accuses Ex-Atty Of Being Trump’s 'Puppet'

Davidson represented Daniels when she accepted $130,000 weeks before the 2016 election in order to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump from 200...

Putin says ready to meet Trump

Trump has said he is open to having a summit with Putin, who USA intelligence officials have said directed Russian meddling in the 2016 election to help Trump w...

QuickQuotes about the results of Ontario's election

Notley went on to thank Kathleen Wynne for her more than 5 yrs of service as Premier of Ontario and offered congratulations to Andrea Horwath on leading the...

Putnam: No mores lapse in background checks

An inspector general's report says the state Division of Licensing failed to consult the National Instant Background Check System between between February 26, 2...

Kim Kardashian Thanks Donald Trump for Granting Alice Johnson Clemency

She has said that prison guards wrote letters on her behalf and that she has perfectly clean behavior, spending her free time writing plays. "This is a very ...

Trump Leaves G-7 Summit With A Call To End 'Unfair' Trade

In another tweet , Trump said he's "looking forward to seeing" Macron and Trudeau and accused them of "charging the US massive tariffs and create non-monet...

Canada will retaliate against United States tariffs: Justin Trudeau

But after leaving for Singapore, Trump tweeted personal attacks on Trudeau and said that he had told his representatives not to sign the summit communique, ...

Afghan police killed in Taliban attack on base

Ghani first spoke about the possibility of a ceasefire with the militant Islamist group in February, when he announced that the Afghan government was willing t...

Longtime US Senate intel panel staffer indicted for allegedly lying to FBI

One of the reporters was identified as New York Times correspondent Ali Watkins , the newspaper said Thursday night, adding that the Senate staffer and W...

Trump and Kim Jong-un impersonators meet in Singapore (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

They will meet on the resort island of Sentosa, which is "conveniently isolated" from the rest of the Southeast Asian country of 5.9 million, noted Sung-Yoon L...

NATO chief hails German defence spending boost

NATO does not intend to isolate Russian Federation, but to apply a double approach - deterrence against aggression and political dialogue, as Jens Stoltenberg ...

Woman gored by bison after crowd gets too close

Ms Hancock, from Santa Rosa, California, was taken to a hospital in Montana with a hip injury. Previous year there were five bison attacks in the park. Rang...

Trump casts North Korea summit as 'one-time shot' for Kim Jong Un

After North Korea carried out a series of long-range missile tests that potentially put the USA mainland in range of a nuclear strike, Trump promised to respond...

Trump Supports Relaxing Federal Pot Laws, In Blow To Jeff Sessions

President Trump's expression of support Friday for legislation that would protect legal marijuana activities in states that have approved the drug is bei...

Chinese government hackers reportedly stole trove of sensitive US naval data

They indicated that among the material accessed were data relating to a project known as Sea Dragon, as well as information held within the navy submarine dev...

Tragic: American Soldier Killed in Somalia - Timothy Meads

A local service member also died, defense officials said . Al-Shabab militants launched a deadly attack on US and Somali forces Friday, hitting them with exp...

Voter turnout could reach 45 percent in Sacramento County

Voters in Ottawa-Vanier should double-check where their polling location is after incorrect information was inadvertently sent to voters by the campaign team of...

Trump arrives in Quebec for G7 summit, wants Russian Federation invited back

In the wake of the reports about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the ongoing investigation into whether the Kremlin colluded with the...

Germany's Merkel sees tough G7 talks, warns on trade issues

She said Russia's removal was "unavoidable". The June 8-9 meeting in Charlevoix, Canada, will begin with a working session on economic growth and trade - topi...

Guatemala toll hits 109, rescue suspended

The death toll had stood at 75 late Tuesday. It also noted that 72 hours had passed since Sunday's eruption. It said in a statement that a so-called lahar...

Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian stone-thrower

Israel's use of deadly force against unarmed Palestinian protesters has drawn global condemnation, with United Nations war crimes investigators set to probe the...

Senate leader cancels most of August recess

Toomey was joined in the move by U.S. Sens. Bob Corker , R-Tenn.; Heidi Heitkamp D-N.D.; Mark Warner, D-Va.; Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.; Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii;...

After Wuhan, Modi meets Xi Jinping in Qingdao

Chinese President Xi Jinping will open late Saturday a two-day regional security summit attended by Russia, Iran and other allies confronting rising tensions wi...

Paul Manafort unveils an odd excuse for his alleged witness tampering

Mr. Manafort's longtime associate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, was added to the case, and was charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice...