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McMaster breaks with Trump over 'radical Islamic terrorism'

Trump has repeatedly painted Islam with a broad brush as a source of "hatred" and condemned other politicians for refusing to use the phrase "radical Islamic te...

Turkey to help Al-Bab residents return home: Army chief

The explosion went off as the opposition fighters were organizing the return of civilians from al-Bab who had been displaced by the fighting for their town, he ...

Draft GOP health care bill revamps Obama's health care law

Most governors realize that the GOP's Medicaid restructuring plan, recently outlined by House Republican leaders, would mean significantly less federal funding...

German Archaeologists Freed in Northern Nigeria After Kidnapping

Security officers stand guard at the scene where a German archaeologists and his associate were kidnapped in Janjala Village, Nigeria. The two men were abduct...

USA envoys try to lower Mexico tensions as Trump amps them up

This led to speculation Mr Trump may also divert USA aid to pay for the wall. US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has pledged that the military would no...

'I thought it was baby oil'

Another female suspect, Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 28, is also in custody over the murder, but Erwin said Siti had told Indonesian consular staff she did not kn...

Australia, Indonesia restore full military ties, see progress on trade

Widodo said, "That robust relationship can be established when both countries have respect for each other's territorial integrity, non-interference into the dom...

Pakistan to Host Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization

Initiatives for furtherance of education and scientific linkages, cultural and people-to-people contacts within the ECO would also be deliberated upon during th...

This Muslim adviser only lasted 8 days in Trump's White House

Rumana Ahmed's parents migrated from Bangladesh in 1978 to the United States for brighter prospects. She further writes that the "climate in 2016 felt like it d...

Indian doctor rescued from ISIS captivity in Libya: Sushma Swaraj

He revealed that it was bit hard to watch them. Recalling the horror, Ramamurthy told it was during Ramadan previous year when 16 ISIS people approached me as...

Scott Pruitt says EPA could begin rolling back Obama rules next week

After sitting on an open records request for more than a year, the Oklahoma attorney general's office - occupied until a week ago by Scott Pruitt, now head of t...

Trump's Immigration Measures Could Exacerbate Boston Court Backlog

But taken together, the new policies are a rejection of the sometimes more restrained efforts by former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush and their pre...

Hugh Jackman left in hysterics over cast mate's naughty story

The actor felt that there was never going to be a more emotional, lovely or sensitive way to say goodbye to the character of Charles Xavier than with the stor...

Malaysia: Kim Jong Nam died within 20 minutes of poisoning

THE poison used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader at a crowded air terminal in Malaysia was the banned chemical weapon VX nerve agent, ...

Sena, BJP play waiting game; saffron face-off turns focus to other parties

Uddhav Thackeray, who emerged before the press with his wife Rashmi and son Aditya Thackeray, much after Fadnavis had spoken to the media, said the Shiv Sena ha...

Somebody Won a $435 Million Powerball Jackpot

The odds of winning any Powerball prize are 1 in 24.9, but the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million. Two people won $50,000 each in Tennessee ...

Kim Jong-nam was assassinated with nerve agent

The oily substance is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also classifies ...

VX Nerve Agent Detected in Kim Jong Nam Death Probe: Malaysian Police

Two female suspects have been arrested, and police said four North Korean nationals suspected to be "heavily involved" are believed to have left Malaysia for th...

Military Will Not Be a Deportation Force, DHS Tells Mexico

They're saying that Mexico does have a little bit of leverage, that they are great partners and do help in anti-terrorism policing and things like that and that...

When POTUS Says 'Military Operation' He Doesn't Mean...'Military Operation'

Can President Trump bring back manufacturing jobs? "I say, 'What network is it?' And they'll say, 'A certain - let's not mention names, right? We've delivered o...

John Boehner Finally Tells The Truth About Obamacare

The topic was scheduled for just one short panel Thursday afternoon. "Before we repeal we need to know what the replacement is going to look like, so I can no...

White House gives plenty of ammunition to travel ban's opponents

A spokeswoman for the White House declined to respond to inquires about why the new executive order had been delayed. Lawyers that challenged the first execut...

United States envoy tries to pacify Mexico

Mexico is by far the top destination for Texan exports, with goods worth $92.4bn exported there in 2015, according to the US Department of Commerce . Trump's r...

Hundreds rally in favor of the Affordable Care Act

Rooney to come, but he said it wasn't on his schedule", Nayer said. The event featured the experiences of Andersen, a prenatal nurse, and Provost, a cancer pa...

South African police fire rubber bullets at anti-immigrant march in Pretoria

A group calling itself the Mamelodi Concerned Residents organised a march in Pretoria last week and accused Nigerians and Somalis, in particular, of engaging in...

Kim Jong-nam killing: VX nerve agent 'found on his face'

He declined to say which of the women - one Indonesian and one Vietnamese - had gotten sick. Police believe Aisyah and another woman applied the chemical to K...

The epidemic of bomb threats against Jewish organizations, explained

Officials said the threat was called in about 9:15 a.m. Fischman said a receptionist received the threat from someone using an altered voice and passed it alo...

Assassin 'was paid just £72 to kill Kim Jong-un's half-brother'

Feb 20: Malaysia recalls its ambassador to North Korea and summons North Korean Ambassador Kang Chol to its Foreign Ministry. The poison does not appear to ha...

BJP Maintains Winning Streak In Maharashtra, Shiv Sena Tops Mumbai Tally

It is now not clear how many ballots Sena racked up, but experts say there won't be a drastic increase in its vote share compared to 2012. Devendra Fadnavis a...

Nisar directs to extend visas of Afghan nationals

Sarhadi said trade volume between Pakistan and Afghanistan had come down to Rs1.5 billion that was up to Rs2.5 billion before the closure of the border. Meanwhi...

Ana Navarro: Trump's Attacks On Media "Correlated" With Anti-Semitism

One of these is an embrace of religious freedom and tolerance and a rejection of anti-Semitism . The remarks came in the wake of bomb threats to almost a doz...

Democrats elect former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as new chairman

Perez, 55, had narrowly missed winning in that first round by a single vote. "As the Democratic Party shifted ever leftwards under Obama, it suffered net loss...

8-year-old shot to death moments after surviving auto crash

Police said a white Pontiac Grand Prix was either racing or being chased by another vehicle down West Fuqua Street when the white auto ran a red light. Thomas' ...

No. 18 NC State women roll past rival Tar Heels 80-60

Smith Center shortly after his exchange with the coach. "For us, we just beat a really good team and we shot bad and I think that shows we can win in differen...

Islamic State Claims Car Bomb That Killed 51 In Syria's Al-Bab

The auto "drove right into the heart of the crowd", said Khalil Abdulrahman, a Syrian journalist from al-Bab, told The Washington Post . Later on in the day,...