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President escalates border battle with Democrats, cancels congressional travel

It's one many Trump political advisers would rather avoid. The president has not been swayed so far, this week blasting "radical Democrats." It takes a jo...

Giuliani aims to clarify collusion comments

The mounting pressure has also strained Giuliani's relationship with Trump. "The President did not himself, nor does he have any knowledge of collusion with R...

Newborn’s remains found in trash at Amazon building in Phoenix

The fire department determined the infant was deceased and beyond resuscitation, but details of the cause of death are pending a medical examiner's report, poli...

Facebook removes propaganda network linked to Russian media group Sputnik

Facebook said it cracked down on this second network after a tip-off from U.S. law enforcement. Sputnik's Romanian edition also doesn't shy away from publis...

Senate Republicans break with Trump on Russia sanctions

Mnuchin said after his closed-door meeting with Republican senators that the sanctions "shouldn't be a political issue". Some other Republicans who voted in fav...

Israeli Student Killed in Australia While Phoning Sister

Her sister "heard the sound of the phone falling to the ground and heard some voices", Police said. Aiia Maasarwe's body was found in bushes near a tram s...

House votes to keep Russian sanctions against Putin pal

The House will likely vote on a similar resolution Thursday, but it will be purely symbolic following the Senate's action Wednesday. The House issued a symbol...

North Korea's Kim Yong-chol on way to Washington

President Donald Trump . Last week, South Korean President Moon Jae-in threw his support behind another Trump-Kim meeting, saying it would be a turning poi...

Divers swim with giant great white shark off Oahu's coast

She estimated this shark was more than 20 feet (6 metres) long and 8 feet (2.4 metres) across. "This individual may be one of the largest recorded and bears s...

Trump vows United States missile defence in space, as Chinese hypersonic tech advances

But while the earlier review focused exclusively on the ballistic-missile threat, the new review broadens the scope to include cruise missile and hypersonic th...

911 call reporting that Jayme Closs had been found is released

One of those women, Michelle Knight - now known as "Lily Rose Lee" - said she knows what Closs is dealing with and wants to offer help. Her father, James, wen...

Fake Print Editions of Washington Post Distributed in Washington, DC

The lead story says Trump departed via helicopter in the middle of the night, leaving behind only a napkin on his Oval Office desk, "scrawled in red ink with ...

Malindo Air confirms crew member arrested in Australia for smuggling drugs

Australian Federal Police Commander Amanda Kates said the operation showed strong co- operation between state and Commonwealth law-enforcement agencies. anothe...

Sting nabs jihadist who wanted to attack White House with anti-tank rocket

The other targets of the attack plot included the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and a " specific synagogue " that was not specified in the complaint...

US Actions in Japan Create Risks For Security of Russia, China

Talks stalled for decades due to Japan's claim to strategic islands seized by the Soviet army in the final days of the war. The talks revolved around four ...

Kumbh Mela Hindu festival begins in India

Credit: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters A Hindu pilgrim at the site of the Kumbh mela on Sunday. The union of the three rivers - known as "Sangam" - is considered s...

Kirsten Gillibrand Officially Announces Her Presidential Run In The 2020 Elections!

Asked why she is running, Mrs Gillibrand replied: " As a young mom I'm going to fight for other people's kids as hard as I fight for my own, which is why I bel...

Mueller team claims Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors despite plea deal

On January 15, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office suggested in a court filing that the two men spoke a lot, before and long after Manafort was criminally...

Was a Canadian's death sentence in China an act of diplomatic retribution?

The nationalistic Global Times in China accused Ottawa of double standards. A day after Robert Lloyd Schellenberg , 36, was handed a death sentence after a r...

UK PM makes last-minute plea for votes on Brexit deal

She will be taken into the Commons in a wheelchair by her husband, the Evening Standard reported. Even if some abstain, a defeat by more than 100 would be the...

Russia, US in war of words over arms treaty

In his answers, Russia's top diplomat derided suggestions that Trump was a Russian spy or that Moscow was happy over Britain's Brexit troubles. The INF bans...

Theresa May's Brexit deal defeated by record margin: What happens now?

From the start of the Brexit process, Mrs May insisted that she wanted a "bespoke" deal tailored specifically for the United Kingdom and not an off-the-shel...

Two U.S. soldiers reportedly among 14 killed after bombing in Syria

The attack comes less than a month after US President Donald Trump claimed that the Islamic State militant group that launched the attack had been defeated...

Alien-looking, very big rotating ice disk forms in ME river

The disk, which is formed by the water's currents is estimated to be about 100 yards across. Rob Mitchell, who owns a nearby office building, told the Press ...

White House asked Pentagon for options to attack Iran in 2018

The decision to seek options striking Iran was prompted by an incident in September in which three mortars were fired into a diplomatic quarter in Baghdad , ...

'El Chapo' paid former Mexican president $100 million bribe: trial witness

The Colombian, who has been testifying for days about things he learned about Guzman's gang while he was living at one of the kingpin's hideaways in Mexico, d...

Canada asks China for clemency for convicted drug trafficker

Monday's death sentence for Canadian Robert Schellenberg for smuggling 222 kilograms of methamphetamines became the latest strain on ties. Canada accused Ch...

Councils forced to hold citizenship ceremonies on Aust Day

Labor leader Bill Shorten said didn't rule out supporting the plan, but guaranteed he would keep the public holiday if in government. Asked for more details a...

May warns Brexit deal opponents risk 'letting British people down'

Turning to her Conservative Party at a private meeting, May again warned lawmakers against fuelling division in Britain over Brexit and against allowing the mai...

Donald Trump Serves Football Team McDonald's Banquet At White House

The President reportedly paid for the food himself because numerous White House staff are furloughed due to the partial government shutdown , Deputy Press ...

Dash Cam Captures Toddler in Car Seat Falling Out of Moving Car

The child's mother was driving the vehicle and she returned to the scene once she realized the child was missing. "If it didn't happen in front of me, I'd nev...

Indonesia finds cockpit voice recorder of crashed Lion Air jet

Indonesia's transportation safety committee gave no cause for the crash in a preliminary report in November . Indonesian media reported in December that Li...

Erdogan keen on creation of Syria 'security zone'

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United States counterpart Donald Trump mooted Monday the creation of a "security zone" in northern Syria a...

Iran satellite launch, which USA warned against, fails

According to the Israeli satellite imagery analysis firm, ImageSat International, this appears to be imminent, as large numbers of personnel have arrived at the...

Al Shabaab claims responsibility for Nairobi hotel attack

Kenyan police said on Wednesday that there was still an "active security operation" around the luxury hotel complex where at least 15 people were killed in a mi...