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Holy Fire in pictures: Apocalyptic scenes as wildfires rage in California

The Holy Fire , which broke out on Monday in Holy Jim Canyon in Orange County southeast of Los Angeles, has already destroyed 12 structures and was only 5 per...

Michigan Democrats hoping for pink and blue wave in November

Schuette - an ally of President Donald Trump - easily defeated Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, conservative state Sen. Their victories, reported by The Associated Pre...

Erdoğan urges Turks to sell dollars and euros to support lira

On Friday, President Trump doubled tariffs on Turkish metal imports, largely the result of Turkey's terrorism trial of a U.S. evangelical pastor whose fre...

Aftershock rocks Lombok in Indonesia as death toll rises

Meanwhile, the evacuation of tourists from the Gili Islands - three tiny, coral-fringed tropical islands off the northwest coast of Lombok - has finished, off...

Video shows moment plane thief did a barrel roll before crashing

Video from the scene shows the plane , which had no passengers on board, fly upside down while being tracked by fighter jets. Witnesses report F-15s chasing p...

USA issues warning to citizens after Kerala floods

The deluge has ravaged several districts of the state, with National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) working in a fire-fighting mode. The Army station located at...

At least four dead in Canada shooting

I have an oxygen machine going and an air conditioner going. Police have since confirmed "there is no further threat to the public", and said lockdowns were n...

In Gaza Flare-Up, New York Times Obscures Cause and Effect

Over 180 mortar shells and rockets were launched by Hamas , Gaza's Islamist rulers, throughout Wednesday and Thursday, the Israeli military said . The Ham...

US Senator Rand Paul delivers letter from Trump to Putin

Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin's press secretary, confirmed that a missive had been received " through diplomatic channels ", and will soon be delivered to the...

Saudi-Canada row leaves U.S. in tight diplomatic spot

In response, Canada's foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland said the government will not back down. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department offered a tepi...

North Korea slams USA for lacking ‘basic decorum’ in nuke talks

Pyongyang has also stepped up its calls for a formal end to the Korean War, which some analysts believe is meant to be the first step in the North's effort to e...

Dozens killed, including children on a bus, in Yemen air strikes

A child lies in hospital after the school bus he was on was allegedly attacked by the Saudi-led coalition. He said it had hit "militants responsible for pla...

Gates, star witness against Manafort, concludes testimony

I hope Manafort said "thank you" at least. He barked at U.S. Attorney Greg Andres to "focus sharply" - a common refrain of his over the past week - when Andre...

Sun. 7:45 pm: Hamilton prosecutor disagrees with pope over death penalty

The Community of Sant'Egidio, an association that represents Christians in 70 countries and a long-time campaigner against the death penalty , expressed "joy" ...

Space Force plans blasted with Twitter Star Wars snark

Mattis has endorsed plans to reorganize the military's space forces and create a new command, but had previously opposed launching an expensive separate n...

Russian PM says NATO admission of Georgia could trigger 'terrible conflict'

The Russian military quickly routed the Georgian army during the August 2008 war. Czaputowicz was in Tbilisi on a two-day visit, alongside fellow top diplomat...

British PM May, others flay Boris Johnson for ‘Islamophobic’ remarks

Baroness Warsi repeated her calls for an investigation into Islamophobia within the Conservative party in a piece in the Guardian, and noted there had been a ...

Student takes graduation photos with 14-foot alligator

Makenzie Alexis Noland celebrated finishing Texas A&M by giving the 13 foot, eight inch reptile an affectionate bump on the nose - and shared the moment on ...

Federal Bureau of Investigation says ex-Trump campaign chairman hid over 30 offshore accounts

Gates said under questioning Wednesday that he told Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and Justice Department lawyers about some of the offshore companies t...

Indonesia quake death toll almost triples to 347

The US Geological Survey measured the quake at magnitude 5.9. Aid begun trickling into some of the most isolated regions, officials said midday Thursday, bu...

Israel kills two Hamas gunmen in Gaza, sides dispute circumstances

Meanwhile, an official from the Islamist Gaza Strip government told Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday that Hamas may be ready to reach an agreeme...

Trump Supporter Rand Paul Goes to Moscow, Invites Russian Officials to Washington

Paul said the two "agreed on the importance of continued dialogue". "I invited the to send a delegation to the Capitol, and they have agreed to take this import...

What Caused the Massive Magnitude-7 Indonesian Earthquake?

Indonesian rescue workers were still struggling Tuesday to reach the northern part of Lombok island, which was struck by a major 6.9 magnitude quake Sunday. "We...

US to impose new sanctions on Russian Federation

Police officers guard a cordon around a police tent covering a supermarket vehicle park pay machine near the spot where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and ...

Suspected Russian spy found working in US embassy in Moscow

The woman did not come on the radar of the US Department of State's Regional Security Office (RSO) until 2016, the year of the US presidential elections that sp...

Iran warn of ‘CONSEQUENCES’ as United States announces ban on oil exports

In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani , right, greets North Korean Foreign Minister R...

Baby boy dies after being pulled from water near Brooklyn Bridge

Sunday, sources said. He was wearing only a diaper and was in shallow water near the Manhattan shoreline. The parents have not been found. The baby was pr...

Saudi Arabia Punishes Canada for Criticizing Human Rights Defenders' Arrests

Still, Rai said the impact on the currency should be "ephemeral" as bilateral trade between Saudi Arabia and Canada is small. Additionally, on Monday it was ...

GOP Rep. Chris Collins Hit With Insider Trading Charges

The insider trading crimes concern Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian biotech firm in which both Collins men were major shareholders. Attorneys for Collin...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defends failure to ban Alex Jones

Jack Dorsey on Tuesday defended Twitter's decision to allow Alex Jones to keep tweeting after Apple , Facebook , and YouTube all barred the Infowars...

Paul Manafort trial Day 7

The court was not told what Judge T.S. Ellis ruled, but when Downing came back he asked Gates if his "secret life" spanned the period in defense exhibit 17, whi...

First round of United States tariffs on Chinese goods to hit $50B - USTR

A weaker yuan, which marked its worst 4-month fall on record between April and July, may have taken the sting out of 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion exports t...

Tight Ohio Vote Could Spell Trouble for GOP This Fall

The races, like dozens before them, pit the strength of the Republican president's fiery coalition against the Democratic Party's anti-Trump resistance. Balders...

Matthew Seiyefa Appointed Acting DG Of DSS, Meets Osinbajo

He said the blockage of the NASS complex was a surprise to him, adding that the police would soon issue a statement on the incident. "When I have a detailed pic...

German couple jailed for selling son to paedophiles on dark web

Eight people were arrested back in January after German police uncovered a paedophile ring in which the mother had been selling her 8-year-old boy for sex in ...