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Newsmax's Christopher Ruddy on Mueller: 'This Is An Illegitimate Special Counsel'

A second issue is that Sessions will want to challenge some of the testimony of Comey, who really went after President Trump during his dramatic hearing with ...

Congressman who witnessed Virginia shooting: Shooter 'was going after elected officials'

A statement issued by Mr Trump said: "The vice-president and I are aware of the shooting incident in Virginia and are monitoring developments closely". To...

Deadly High-Rise Fire In London

Tamara Eastmond said a lot of people appeared to be unaccounted for. Survivors told of frantic attempts to escape during the nighttime fire. "We could do no...

Congressman says member of his staff wounded

Walz's staff says he was not at practice at the time of the shooting. He praised the efforts of U.S. Capitol Police and other first responders. He said Ca...

Baby dropped from window of burning London tower

London Fire Brigade chief Dany Cotton said there had been "a number of fatalities" and 30 people had been hospitalised after what she called an "unprecedente...

Conservative lawmaker known for love of baseball

Members of the protective detail for Rep. Steve Scalise , R-La., are being hailed as heroes Wednesday, shining a spotlight on the little-known police force tha...

I'd 100% Be Willing To Testify Under Oath To Rebut Comey

In explosive testimony yesterday before the US Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI Director James Comey laid bare months of White House distrust in a hi...

Donald Trump Jr. appears to confirm key part of Comey's testimony

When Trump was asked whether he himself would be willing to testify under oath, he said "100%". Donald Trump shakes hands with his Romanian counterpar...

United States leaves G-7 peers to talk among themselves on Paris accord

Environment ministers from Japan and other major nations faced difficulties persuading the United States to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the...

Russian Federation collusion claim 'detestable lie': US Attorney General

Sessions adamantly maintained he was not, but insisted that he was following the "historic polices" of the Justice Department. Attorney General Jeff Session...

Talks on DUP support for minority UK govt, to continue

Theresa May addressed a meeting of conservative MPs after her failure to win the election outright prompted days of speculation about her future. Arlene F...

Jeff Sessions brands Russian Federation collusion claims a 'detestable lie'

Sessions , a close Trump adviser during the battle for the presidency, said in his opening statement that it was a "detestable and appalling lie" to suggest h...

Rep. Fleischmann okay after shooting at charity baseball practice

He said the FBI has joined the investigation. "America is praying for you and all the victims of this bad shooting ", Trump said. "My heart is with my former...

Jeff Sessions to Face Long-awaited Senate Grilling on Russia Ties, Comey Firing

Mr. Sessions flatly denied he was part of any collusion with Russian Federation, and said in his involvement with the campaign - or his time since as attorney...

USA attorney general Sessions vehemently denies Russian Federation allegations

The attorney general defended himself - at times fervently - when asked about this testimony from fired FBI Director James Comey . "I responded to his commen...

Ryan on House floor after congressman shooting: 'We are one family.'

Ryan was especially moved, he told his colleagues, by a photo tweeted out by CNN of the Democrats' Congressional baseball team at their own practice, in whi...

Norwegian insurer Protector to incur losses from London tower block fire

The brigade says "it is safe for our crews to be in there". The London Fire Brigade said the cause of the fire is still unknown. Some tenants previous...

Chelsea begin defence of title at home to Burnley

Similarly to Huddersfield , Brighton will be hoping to get enough points on the board before the final few games of the season as they too face a hard run-in...

Louisiana congressman shot at GOP baseball practice; shooter in custody

WASHINGTON - Sen. Jeff Flake says the gunman in the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise had "a rifle of some sort" and "a lot of ammo". Rep. Williams later ...

Unknown number killed in massive London high-rise blaze

The agony they must've been going through for all of those hours! "Even when the lights went off, people were waving with white shirts to be seen", Lleshi sai...

London fire: fatalities recorded as blaze engulfs tower block, 50 hospitalized

The Grenfell Action Group , set up in 2010 to oppose the redevelopment of a nearby green space, said it had warned repeatedly about the fire safety standards...

Names of inmates sought in Georgia released

Officials with the Putnam Sheriff's Office say, about 30 inmates were aboard a prison bus when two of the inmates disarmed and overpowered both Baldwin...

Bernie Sanders Slams 1 Percent in Praise for UK's Corbyn

May will face the tall task of first fending off challenges to her own leadership and then attempting to negotiate a satisfactory Brexit with a razor-thin maj...

Failed gambit: United Kingdom polls put paid to May's hard Brexit

May's authority over her party was shattered by the election result. "Now let's get to work", she said . The other major party, Labor , gained 30 seats but ...

Ireland wants Brexit talks to start, to safeguard peace process

In a phone call, Irish premier Enda Kenny told May that forming a minority government reliant on the support of the hardline Protestant Democratic Unionist Part...

Morocco says will send food to Qatar after Gulf states cut ties

Turkey, a strong ally of Qatar, will send its foreign minister to Doha on Wednesday and then if possible to Saudi Arabia in a diplomatic push to help end a bi...

Community centres and churches overwhelmed with donations for Grenfell Tower residents

Cladding had been added to the outside of the building, blamed by some residents for helping the fire to spread so quickly. Fabio Bebber wrote on Twitter: "Mo...

United Nations warns Gulf states to respect rights in Qatar row

Doha denies accusations by Saudi Arabia , Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that it supports terrorism and courts regional rival Iran. He said t...

Iran urges Persian Gulf Arab states to show restraint

In all 18 destinations in the region are now out of bounds for Qatar Airways , which has also been forced to close its offices in Saudi Arabia and the UAE . K...

Low turnout but big majority ahead for Macron

Projections show La Republique en Marche (Republic on the Move) and its MoDem ally set to win up to 445 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly. "While the ...

Arlene Foster and Theresa May set for crucial talks in London

British Prime Minister Theresa May met her backbench MPs at Westminster Monday night and told them she took the blame for the Conservative's poor showing ...

London residents raised concerns months before fire

Already, people are asking how the fire spread so rapidly and why it was so hard for residents to escape. Cotton told reporters she'd never seen anything like...

50 years today since the start of the 1967 Middle East War

This was an interim deal involving the creation of a temporary Palestinian authority to govern Palestinians living under the occupation and the withdrawal of Is...

6 killed, dozens injured in massive London high-rise blaze

The building is the Grenfell Tower in the North Kensington area. The fire has been burning for more than three hours and stretches from the second to the 27th...

East Sussex firefighters send message to those affected by 'devastating' London fire

At least 30 people were sent to hospitals. Ambulance officials say 74 people were being treated in hospitals across London for a range of injuries and smo...