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Democrats also lost a special election in South Carolina Tuesday

GOP officials in Washington breathed a sigh of relief after their candidate, Karen Handel, fended off Democrat Jon Ossoff in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday...

Champs-Elysees vehicle attacker was on terror watchlist: probe sources

The latest attack came two days before the French government is to unveil a new anti-terrorism law, created to allow the state of emergency to be lifted. loca...

CBSE agrees to re-evaluate exam papers of students

In a significant development in CBSE Class XII examination evaluation row, Union Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday directed t...

Cindy's remnants: Street flooding from South to the Midwest

National Weather Service forecasters estimated the storm had dumped anywhere from 2 to 10 inches (50 to 250 millimeters) of rain on various spots along the Gulf...

Israeli forces detain 14 Palestinians in West Bank, man in Jerusalem

The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with its capital in East Jerusalem, and also claim historical and political links ...

UK PM, DUP talks 'not going as expected'

A President Donald Trump state visit is not in the speech, even though the visit by the Spanish monarchy was on the cards. "The two sides are still far apart ...

Obama denounces 'fundamental meanness' of Senate GOP health care bill

Trump called " mean ". As soon as it reached the Senate, the GOP majority there said they would scrap it and come up with a bill of their own. Analysis ...

Pelosi under fire from Democrats: 'It's time for her to go'

Tim Walz of Minnesota. Republican Ralph Norman beat Democrat Archie Parnell by around 3 percentage points in SC, closer than expected and a warning sign to ...

Presidential poll: JD(U) formally backs BJP nominee Ram Nath Kovind

The Opposition parties are meeting on June 22 to decide on fielding a consensus candidate for the presidential election . The election for the next President...

Congress-led opposition names Meira Kumar as Prez nominee

Also with Kovind were several senior BJP leaders, some chief ministers of NDA-ruled states and senior leaders of other parties supporting his candidature. He ...

McConnell's focus: finding votes for Senate health care bill

It allows insurance companies to charge older Americans more , so again we have a bill that would make health care harder to afford for the poor and the ol...

House Democrat: 'We need new leadership'

He emphasized that the group "was a diverse group from an ideological, geographic and ethnic standpoint". But in the end, the Georgia contest represented yet ...

Arab states' demand to shut Al Jazeera evokes condemnation

Referring to the six-nation GCC, state department spokeswoman Heather Nauer expresed doubts over the intentions of the countries , saying: "Now that it's been ...

Israel begins work on new West Bank settlement

Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and the Islamic militant group Hamas took over the territory soon after. Kushner, whose family has a long rela...

Alexandre Lacazette Record Bid Rumoured

Lyon would be reluctant to sell Lacazette , who has spent his entire career at the club, but the monstrous bid from the north London outfit will certainly be t...

Trump is 'very supportive' of Senate healthcare bill -White House

Hennessy has been sketching court cases, including the Clinton Impeachment Hearings for decades and stood in the back of the briefing room sketching Sean Spicer...

Nevada's Heller is fifth GOP senator to oppose health-care bill

The plan gets rid of those mandates. People could tap newly created federal tax credits. The Senate version offers more financial assistance to some lower-i...

Scalise critical but improving, will require additional operations: Hospital

He remains in critical condition, but has improved in the last 24 hours. Democrats and Republicans are facing off in Thursday's Congressional Baseball Gam...

New blow to GOP health bill: Nevada GOP Sen. Heller opposes

Whereas Senate Democrats held 25 days of debate on Obamacare, the Republicans have reportedly budgeted themselves about a week between the release of the ...

Unhealthy outlook for repealing ObamaCare as some GOP senators defect from bill

He said that the debate is "about the character of our country - who we are, and who we aspire to be". "To me, the most important thing is the Medicaid ex...

Trio of Bombings Kill Dozens in 2 Pakistani Cities

A powerful bomb went off near the office of the provincial police chief in southwest Pakistan on Friday, causing casualties, police said. Local governmen...

Police officer who killed unarmed black man Sam DuBose cleared of murder

He was charged with murder and voluntary manslaughter. Four hours later, the jury said it was still deadlocked; in all, jurors deliberated more than 31 hour...

Hillary Rips GOP as 'Death Party' for Healthcare Bill

Republicans say it costs too much and involves the federal government too much in healthcare. "In this form, I will not support it". Look forward to making it r...

Trump proposes to build wall with solar panels on border with Mexico

A United Kingdom -based think tank called the International Institute for Strategic Studies reported in May that Mexico had the second highest number of int...

Israel Unimpressed by Iran Missile Strikes on ISIS

Also on Sunday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps launched six mid-range missiles at targets in Syria , hoping to punish ISIS forces responsible for the te...

White St. Louis police officer shoots off-duty black officer

But police say another officer who had just arrived saw the man walking toward police and shot him in the arm. As he reached the scene, the off-duty cop was...

Mueller meets with House leaders amid Trump-Russia probe

Sekulow said Trump "is not and has not been under investigation". He takes the action that they also by the way, recommended, and now he's being investigated...

Republican wins Georgia poll in blow to anti-Trump effort

For one thing, Ossoff , a 30-year-old former Capitol Hill staffer, did outperform his district's partisan leanings by six points, according to Dave Wasserman o...

Nitish made 'mistake' by supporting Kovind for President: Lalu

It became clear that the Opposition candidate too had to be a Dalit to keep the politics from veering into unintended areas. Interestingly, Pawar only menti...

Brexit laws head agenda for UK's 'zombie government'

Speculation that Donald Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom may be ditched was fuelled by its absence from the Queen's nine-minute address. The enfe...

Ethiopia scores United Nations praise for welcoming refugees despite challenges

The figure that includes refugees , asylum seekers and people uprooted inside their own countries was some 300,000 higher at the end of previous year than at t...

5 people electrocuted in pool at water park in Turkey

All five victims were rushed to a hospital, however their hearts had already stopped due to the electrocution, according to the hospital. The three youths - a...

Lions aim to beat All Blacks at Eden Park

Gatland believes that passion, coupled with an attacking intent that the Lions have only showed in glimpses so far, will be needed to topple the back-to-back ...

Donald Trump reaches out to lawmakers on healthcare as another says 'no'

Protesters were organized by a group called ADAPT, which identifies itself as a nonprofit for people with disabilities. The deep cuts to Medicaid likely mean ...

Brazilian president says he built warm ties with Putin

Trump on Friday questioned Obama's response to the Russian hacking crisis. The Obama administration then held secret meetings to debate options for dissu...