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Why it would be tough for Dems to quit Nancy Pelosi

Oh-for-four. That is the number of special elections held recently in which - try as they might - Democrats failed to dislodge a Republican . Rep. " Republ...

United States sources: Progress in Middle East peace process will take time

The Palestinians raised their positions concerning core issues - in hopes that the Israelis would do the same - in an aim to understand the two sides' differenc...

Nancy Pelosi is beside the point

Ossoff was tied directly to Pelosi, and her San Francisco-centered base, in a number of Republican-funded campaign commercials targeting voters in the highly-ed...

Cristiano Ronaldo leads Portugal to FIFA #ConfedCup semis as hosts crash out

After Aleksandr Samedov put the host nation up 1-0 in the 25th minute, defender Néstor Araújo equalized with a looping header five minutes later. They faced R...

Suspected tornado: 1 hurt, businesses flattened in Alabama

A state of emergency was declared in Alabama and Louisiana Wednesday , and portions of the Gulf Coast are under tornado watches and flash flood watches ...

China, US agree to denuclearise Korean peninsula

In a sign that U.S. It also urged the South to stop working with any other countries seeking to punish the North for its military provocations. Mattis added...

Trump makes disclosures on business assets

Trump's latest report, which covers the period from January 2016 through this spring, shows he resigned from more than 500 positions, many of them a day befor...

Big Papi's big night: Red Sox retire David Ortiz's No. 34

Things began one day early when Marty Walsh the Boston Mayor stopped at Fenway Thursday afternoon and helped to rename the street leading from Fenway to the n...

North Korea Defends Otto Warmbier's Treatment

Doctors in the United States who examined Warmbier after his release said he had suffered a severe neurological injury from an unknown cause. Warmbier was acc...

Republican wins pricey $79m Georgia race

Republicans' ability to effectively use Pelosi as their bogeyman in Georgia was especially stark when contrasted with the Democrats' tactics there. Democrat...

ISIS leader may have died in airstrike near Raqqa — Russian military

USA defense officials said they were unable to confirm the reports . The U.S. -led anti-ISIS military coalition said Friday, however, that it could not conf...

Congressman Ryan says party's message is why Democrats losing elections

For Republicans, Pelosi is the symbol of all that is wrong with the Democratic party , and tying Ossoff to her political name helped spell an end for his u...

Dem: Pelosi more toxic than Trump in some areas of the country

Seth Moulton and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan . The Democratic divide is highlighted pretty starkly in the string of responses to Moulton's tweet. Progressives bris...

Trump Says He Hopes Dems Don't Force Pelosi Out

Pelosi has been facing questions about her leadership since Democrats lost the hard-fought race. "I don't know how many 'moral victories' the Democrats ar...

Redskins are 'thrilled' by Supreme Court's ruling on disparaging trademarks

The decision paves the way for Asian-American musician Simon Tam to register the name of his band, THE SLANTS , and likely means that the Washington Redsk...

Police consider manslaughter charges over Grenfell Tower fire

She said: "We are looking at every criminal offence from manslaughter onwards, we are looking at every health and safety and fire safety offences and we are rev...

Thousands of mourners bid farewell to Warmbier

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who had met with North Korean officials in NY to press for Warmbier's release , attended the funeral. "The fact that Warmbier died sud...

Talks to support May's Conservatives making progress, DUP says

Just hours ahead of the Queen's Speech and after almost two weeks of talks and preparation, the Tories are still scrambling to reach a deal with the Northern ...

Hampshire Pride chief slams Theresa May over DUP talks

She made a self-depreciating joke after John Bercow was re-elected as the Speaker, quipping: "At least someone got a landslide". "The parliamentary arithmetic...

Unpopular Among Voters, Pelosi Says She's 'Worth the Trouble'

Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California says in a letter to colleagues Wednesday that when President Donald Trump nominated House members to serve in his administra...

Portugal Forest Fire costs 62 lives and fight not over yet

The fire, which has yet to be controlled, is already one of the deadliest forest fires in Portugal in decades. The fire, which began on Saturday, also injur...

Trump's tweets say he's under investigation-but his team disagrees

In any case, that's it. Mueller is interviewing some people about Trump's firing of James Comey , but Trump has not been notified that he's under investigati...

Anti-Sharia Rallies Draw Counterprotesters in Cities Across the US

After the residents were heated, the two rallies merged and law enforcement was called in to keep things civil. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, ...

More whiffs for the scrambling Democrats

It's not just Ossoff's loss, as well as the loss in three other special election House races since the election , that has Democrats looking for a leadersh...

Spicer says he's never spoken with Trump about Russian interference

Spicer was unable to say whether or not anyone in the White House has seen language on the Senate's version. More recently, similar rumors swirled and Spicer ...

United States police officer gets off scot-free for killing black man

The 25-year-old Heaggan-Brown still faces charges for the sexual assault of a man one day after the shooting. Deliberations began around midday yesterday. His...

Georgia Special Election Ends in Disappointment for Democrats

Ossoff weathered a barrage of TV ads tying him to Pelosi, and featuring caricatures from Pelosi's San Francisco district. "I think that in certain areas, like ...

Death toll in Pakistan bombings rises to 63

An assistant sub-inspector was among those killed in the attack, said Superintendent of Police Asif Ahmad. Security forces raided a militant hideout in the no...

Dem loss in Georgia underscores party challenges

The apparent effectiveness of that messaging suggested to some that the 77-year-old Californian could be a liability for Democrats as they aim to regain their...

Government health insurance markets holding up, barely

Dean Heller abandon the American Health Care Act of 2017 and solve problems rather than make more . A third Florida Blue affiliated company, Florida Health C...

China's Imports From North Korea Slump in May After Coal Ban

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Mattis explained. Yang responded by reaffirming China's basic stance on the Korean Peninsul...

McAuliffe dedicates new Loving v. Virginia historical marker

Beginning in 2013, it was cited as precedent in US federal court decisions holding restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United States unconstitutional, incl...

Dem calls for House inquiry into foreign payments to Trump hotel

Just days after his inauguration in January, the government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a federal lawsuit in the Sou...

Macron's party set for a stunning victory in French parliamentary election

Its leader Jean-Christophe Cambadelis as well as its candidate for the presidential election earlier this year, Benoit Hamon, were eliminated in the first round...

Trump suggests he was trying to keep FBI director honest

Three days later, Trump tweeted that Comey "better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" His motivatio...