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Colorado politicians react to shooting at congressional baseball practice

Congressman Roger Williams, a Republican from Texas who has been a coach on the team since 2013, confirmed in a statement that a member of his staff was shot ...

WRAPUP 2-Turkey says Gulf Arab rift damages Muslim world

On Thursday, the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ratified on the parliament's bill authorising the implementation of the agreement of deploying Turkish...

British leader tries to rally support

May has dismissed calls to resign following the dismal election result after calling a vote three years early in the hope of bolstering her slim majority, only ...

Huge fundraising drive for residents of Grenfell Tower

Authorities say the cause of the fire is still not known. The fire brigade said the fire had spread throughout the entire building, now covered in plumes of...

Cotton suggests Comey set precedent of private meetings with Trump

Ron Wyden: "There are none". Sessions bristled at Wyden, telling the OR senator that people are suggesting through innuendo that he has not been honest. "Ma...

Dennis Rodman says 'trying to open door' in North Korea

Rodman endorsed Trump back in 2015. Tillerson said they continue to work on three other detained Americans in North Korea. American visitors have often ...

Tory and DUP deal must be opposed, says Gerry Adams

May's office responded that the DUP deal "would provide stability and certainty for the United Kingdom going forward". At the Elysee news conference, Mrs Ma...

Sessions says he didn't have private meetings with Russians

Sessions said that the reason he recused himself on 2 March was related to justice department regulations that require recusal by an official from any inves...

More people may still be inside burning London tower block

It is not known how many people were in the building at the time, although the timing suggests many would have been asleep at the time. "Even when the lights ...

Hodgkinson, IDed as Gunman in Congressional Shooting

Hodgkinson, the IL man who is suspected of shooting a Republican Congressman and four other people in Virginia this morning, had a record of social media postin...

4 takeaways from Sessions' feisty testimony to Congress about Russia

Democrat Senator Ron Wyden from OR appeared on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" Tuesday night to discuss Attorney General Jeff Sessions' testimony to the Senate ...

Sask. among provinces with the lowest reported hate crimes

The report looked at a variety of hate-crime statistics-from crime motivations and violations to the demographics of victims and the accused. Overall, 48% of ...

Trump 'deeply saddened' by shooting at congressional baseball

Others came into contact with Flake who were shot besides Scalise. "We just stayed where we were and stayed down", he said. Donna and I are praying for Congre...

Grenfell Tower fire: 6 dead following London blaze

London Ambulance Service said that they had taken 50 patients to five London hospitals following the blaze. Commissioner Dany Cotton calls the fire an "unp...

27-story tower engulfed in London; officials fear collapse

By 11 a.m. ET, the fire had been contained but the building continued to smolder. Police say they expect the toll to rise and an investigation has been launched...

Read the statement from President Trump on the Virginia shooting

All we would have had would have been baseball bats versus a rifle . He was elected to serve in the House during the 2008 election, announcing his run af...

Who is Steve Scalise, GOP congressman injured in Virginia shooting

The gunman, James T. Hodgkinson, has died from his injuries in the shooting, invesigators said. The official was not authorized to discuss an investigation by...

Tehran attacks mastermind killed: Iranian minister

Such acts will inevitably result in "more hatred" toward the USA government and its stooges such as the Saudi regime, the Leader remarked. Iran accuses Sa...

GOP rep: Shooting a result of 'political, rhetorical terrorism'

Davis, a Republican from IL, credited U.S. Capitol Police officers on the scene of Wednesday's shooting outside Washington D.C. He said had they not been there,...

GOP senator describes shooting in Virginia; 'People were dropping'

The two Capitol police officers that were shot are in "good condition" and are being treated at a hospital, Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa said . As ...

Rep. John Katko not at congressional baseball practice where shooting occurred

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office sent deputies to Congressman Steve Scalise's house in Jefferson on Wednesday morning as a "precautionary measure" and to...

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise shot at congressional baseball practice

Everyone probably would have died except that the Capitol Police were there. The Louisiana Republicans is in stable condition at a Washington hospital. DeSant...

May starts DUP talks in bid to keep power

Mrs May was attempting to thrash out a pact with Mrs Foster at a meeting in Downing Street to prevent the collapse of her administration. In her opening speec...

Centre Assures Arunachal, Mizoram Govt Help to Deal with Floods

It will also remain constant over neighbouring states like Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, and Assam. Hundreds of families have been evacuated a...

Gunman Wounds Five At US Congressional Baseball Practice

After medical personnel arrived, he said he retrieved Scalise's phone and made the first call to Scalise's wife to notify her of the shooting. "Our thoughts a...

SHOWDOWN: Sessions battles top Democratic senator over Comey's testimony

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he has no knowledge of collusion between US President Donald Trump and Russian Federation. He never, he insisted, kne...

Hindu Sena celebrates 'saviour of humanity' Trump's birthday

And the group threw a lavish party to celebrate Trump's birthday at Delhi's Jantar Mantar. Trump turned 71 on Wednesday and around 20 odd members of the Hi...

6 killed, 74 injured in massive London high-rise blaze

Nick Paget-Brown, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Borough, said: "Clearly, looking further ahead there needs to be a full investigation into the cause of thi...

Fresh Questions Set For Attorney General Sessions

But officials said Sessions's relationship with Trump has been strained since the attorney general recused himself from the Russian Federation probe in Marc...

Fire engulfs London high-rise, 400 fire engines and 200 firefighters dispatched

The fire started around 1 am London time and spread quickly through the building. "It had completely spread within half an hour". "In my 29 years of being a...

No reason to fire special counsel: US Justice Dept

However, Adam Schiff , a Democrat member of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff, said the House would not tolerate Trump firing Mueller . CEC...

Children tossed out of windows in London high-rise blaze

By midday, London police said six people had been killed and they cautioned the death toll was likely to rise. A 24-story tower is engulfed early Wednesday ...

Politicians react to shooting of Majority Whip Scalise at Virginia Park

Police are investigating a shooting in Alexandria, Va ., a suburb of Washington , D.C., at a baseball field where USA legislators were practicing for an ann...

Donald Trump calls Comey 'leaker', ready to respond under oath

In his testimony, Comey recalled that during a private White House dinner on January 27, the president asked him for "loyalty" and to lay off his former top a...

Massive fire engulfs London high-rise, leaving at least six people dead

There have been a number of fatalities and 50 people have been taken to hospital, the London Ambulance Service has confirmed. Residents who escaped have tol...