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President Trump storms out before signing executive orders

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AIPAC opens conference with appeal to bipartisanship amid polarization

He said he was confident the alliance would grow "even stronger" and was looking forward to welcoming new U.S. Ambassador David Friedman to Israel "and especial...

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In the aftermath of the accident, Kuchler said he spoke to the driver, who apologized and admitted that he had been texting while driving. Real County Constab...

White House not disputing reports of sharing intel

Devin Nunes, R-Calif.as the panel continues to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 USA presidential election and the web of contacts between President ...

Arrested In Connection With Overpass Collapse

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India signs first loan agreement with New Development Bank for $350 million

New challenges await emerging markets in the form of increased geopolitical tension and inward looking policies of protectionism, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ...

This Is No Time to Toy with the Korea-US Alliance

It will do so with its "invincible" Hwasong rockets, tipped with nuclear warheads. Judging from pictures released by the government over the weekend, the comm...

China warns India against allowing Dalai Lama to visit Arunachal

The region is India's only gateway to Central Asia since the British partition of the subcontinent in 1947, and the territorial dispute led to a brief war with ...

Intel Official Who 'Unmasked' Trump Associates is 'Very High Up'

Gude, the senior fellow for national security at the Center for American Progress, said White House officials "have not been dealing with this in a forthright...

Venezuela leader urges court to review ruling on congress

Venezuela's chief prosecutor broke with the government Friday and rebuked a Supreme Court decision stripping congress of its last vestiges of power, showing a c...

Why scrapping the Clean Power Plan will not help the coal industry

Chamber of Commerce and the Independent Petroleum Association of America, who support the executive order. It's a frontal assault on all the Obama-era regulat...

Islamic State warns Syrian dam at risk, evacuates residents

US -backed Syrian Kurdish forces say they have captured the Tabqa air base in northern Syria from Islamic State militants. Asked to elaborate, he said this ...

Venezuela prosecutors criticizes pro-government court ruling

Maduro has been working to consolidate power as the opposition has become bolder. In a surprise pronouncement Chief Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Diaz, normally a g...

Trump appeals Hawaii judge's new ruling blocking travel ban

Regarding the freeze to the refugee programme, Watson said 20 refugees had been admitted to Hawaii since 2010. However, Readler argued the ban falls under Tru...

US intensifies probe into Russian election interference

Another expert witness testifying before the committee - Eugene Rumor, former intelligence officer for Russian Federation and Eurasia, U.S. National Intelligenc...

Spicer Tells Reporter He Is Interpreting Yates Letter in 'Plain English'

Vnesheconombank, or VEB, said in Monday's statement carried by state RIA Novosti news agency that it met with Kushner previous year as part of "road show" discu...

[Infographic] Russian anti-corruption protests

Petersburg, and more than 80 towns and cities across the country. Navalny has announced plans to run for president in the 2018 election, although he may be di...

Memo to Villanova: You can't win 'em all, and don't play Wisconsin

Villanova guard Jalen Brunson leaves the court as Wisconsin players celebrate the upset win. We played hard too. "Watching the guys who came before me". T...

Jeremy Conn: NCAA Final Four Thoughts

The Cardinal coach owned a 5-0 record in coaching matchups with Staley going into the contest. Nigel Williams-Goss, Gonzaga . First-team All-American shuts d...

White House signals it can live without border wall funds

Mulvaney also outlined $3 billion in trims to education programs, including Pell Grants for low-income college students, and $1.2 billion in cuts to NIH researc...

Environment activists deny attacking Dakota Access pipeline

The company didn't provide further details, including the locations of the attacks, and ETP spokeswoman Vicki Granado on Tuesday declined comment. The state D...

SKorean supporters of arrested ex-president protest in Seoul

Park and Choi are accused of separately receiving a bribe from Samsung and colluding with top officials to blacklist artists critical of Park's policies to ...

North Korea conducts another failed missile test

That sentiment was already expressed late a year ago by then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who called the effort to get North Korea to give u...

Trump declares war on party rebels

With his poll numbers falling and his plans to move onto tax reform and a robust infrastructure program imperiled, Trump took to Twitter to attack the conserv...

Malaysia interviewed N. Koreans before they left

North Koreans who had been blocked from leaving Malaysia were free to go, and the nine Malaysians headed home on a flight out of Pyongyang . On Friday, Royal...

European Union parliament: Brexit comes with conditions but can be reversed

The parliament itself will not be in the negotiating chair but the legislature will have to approve any Brexit deal. But Davis said the "simple truth" was tha...

Unexpectedly strong win for Merkel's party in German state elections

Merkel's hold on power is stronger than some predicted. "The people decided on stability and reliability", CDU Secretary General Peter Tauber said. He has bee...

Hawaii judge extends ruling halting travel ban indefinitely

The appeal comes a day after US District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii dealt another blow to the White House, issuing a longer-lasting suspension of the presid...

OR can be player in health care reform

During the discussion, Ryan defended Devin Nunes over his recent, controversial excursion to the White House, and mentioned that Trump apologized to him after...

The Tesla Model 3 Will Keep its Boring Dash

However, logically, Musk has his hands full as his company struggles to ensure timely delivery of its Model 3. "The reply? An enigmatic 'Next week'". For help...

Tammy Duckworth joins effort to block Neil Gorsuch confirmation vote

Sen. Democrats are attempting use a procedural hurdle called a filibuster that requires 60 votes to allow a confirmation vote in the 100-seat U.S. Senate. But...

Trump is facing new questions about political interference in the Russian Federation investigations

The Justice Department will tell Congress that a grant of immunity at this stage could compromise its ongoing criminal investigation. In Washington early...

Trump Administration Begins to Scrutinize U.S. Trade Deficit

The first order will instruct the Commerce Department and the US trade representative to compile a report on the sources of the USA trade deficit within 90 da...

Goodwin: Failed Health Care Bill Proof Bipartisanship Is Dead

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy indicated the health plan would come up again "as soon as we figure it out and get the votes". Behind the scenes, lawmake...

Tillerson took secretary of state job because his wife told him to

State Department still seemed to be in a state of transition. The last secretary of state to miss a foreign ministerial was Colin Powell, who canceled his minis...