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India, Netherlands ink MoU on water cooperation

Modi talked with Cook and other United States corporate leaders ahead of a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday. Modi said his economic plan and ...

Colorado baker disputes anti-discrimination law

Jack Phillips , a born-again Christian and owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, cites religious beliefs as the reason he shouldn't be obligate...

Doctors Say Otto Warmbier Suffered 'Extensive' Brain Damage

In their evaluation, they don't feel at this time that he has any conscious awareness as he shows no signs of understanding verbal language and no purposeful ...

Toomey 'conflates two things' in latest health care claim

They would give states more control and flexibility in administering the program, but also require governors and legislators to foot much more of the bill. ...

Vandals obliterate info on Emmett Till marker in Mississippi

Till was kidnapped and lynched in Money , Mississippi , in 1955 after the incident at the Bryant Grocery store. The sign was a part of the Mississippi Freed...

Supreme Court To Hear Gerrymandering Case

The Seventh Circuit Court found the map violates the constitution because it gives one party more power than the other. Every 10 years following the census, s...

Trump Admin Cautions Syria Against Using Chemical Weapons, Warns of 'Heavy Price'

Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov talked earlier Monday about the need to secure a cease-fire in Syria , fight extremist groups and prevent ...

Supreme Court Rules Same-Sex Parents Must Be Listed on Birth Certificates

The importance of the 2016 presidential election was clear on Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear a case from Colorado involving a...

U.S. top court partially lifts block on Trump travel ban

A student admitted to an American university. "But when it comes to refugees who lack any such connection to the United States, for the reasons we have set out,...

Israeli settlement construction in West Bank rises by 70%

By highlighting the earth-moving work - no date has been announced for actual housing construction - Netanyahu appeared to suggest he believed he had little to ...

Theresa May details post-Brexit plans for EU citizens in UK

Those living in the United Kingdom lawfully for at least five years will be granted " settled status " and can live, work and claim benefits just as they can ...

Europe's once positive world view of US slips under Trump

He also disappointed European and other leaders by refusing to recommit to a landmark climate agreement that the US and other nations had agreed to in 2015. The...

Kremlin dismisses US warning of chemical attack in Syria

Threats by the United States to the Syrian regime warning of the consequences of a possible chemical weapons attack were unacceptable, the Russian government sa...

US travel ban violates nuke deal

That is likely to be subject to interpretation and litigation. "Given that preserving national security is "'an urgent objective of the highest order, '" the ...

South Korea Urges North to Stop Weapons Development

Talk is not a new idea for dealing with this unsafe part of the world . In his early days in office, Moon has carefully called for more exchanges and engagem...

Bernie Sanders Condemns 'Despicable' Alexandria Shooter, 'Apparently' Former Campaign Volunteer

The wife of a man who shot a USA congressman and four others at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia said she had no idea he was going to the Washington ...

Senate Republicans Alter Health Care Bill To Avoid 'Death Spiral'

If more than two GOP senators defect, the bill will fail. The Senate bill would cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes over the coming decade, with most...

Supreme Court playground ruling feeds school voucher debate

Roberts continued, "In this case, there is no dispute that Trinity Lutheran is put to the choice between being a church and receiving a government benefit". "...

Gay couple sees hope in Supreme Court cake case

Phillips was told that if he wants to keep making wedding cakes , he needs to make them for everybody. The high court's decision on Monday (26 June) comes ...

German city evacuates apartment block over insulation worry

May's call for an investigation comes after Arconic, the USA -based company that supplied cladding material to the Grenfell Tower , stopped sales of its Reyn...

Massive Fire At London High-Rise Started In A Refrigerator, Police Say

A fridge had been one theory behind what caused the blaze before Metropolitan Police announced its findings. "Preliminary tests show the insulation samples co...

Obama 'Colluded Or Obstructed' In Response To Russian Meddling

In the story, one official said the administration "choked" in its response, which included weighing the possibility the White House could undermine a likely ...

Conference: US mayors may shape national climate policy

Conference of Mayors protested. A bipartisan group of mayors from across the country has unanimously backed an ambitious commitment for United States cities t...

North Korea Needs to Be 'Dealt With Rapidly'

It is to be used in "decapitation" operations against the North Korean regime and has a range of 370 km and a range error probable of a mere 2 m. While the ...

Manufacturer Arconic will end sales of paneling used in Grenfell Tower

The Grenfell fire was started by a faulty fridge, but spread rapidly up the block, trapping many residents in the upper floors. While the investigation in...

'Woke' and 'post-truth' added to Oxford English Dictionary

Both words gained popularity as a result of events in the 2016 presidential elections of the United States and the issues around race and police shootings. But ...

Box Partners With Microsoft For Azure Cloud Content Management

Despite that rivalry, the companies have agreed to jointly sell Box services and elements of Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing platform, they said on Tuesday....

French President Macron, PM Philippe approval ratings rise

The ceremony comes weeks after US President Donald Trump announced that he would pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. As seen across social me...

Supreme Court partially lifts embargo on Trump's order — Travel Ban

Trump's initial executive order - handed down without warning a week after he took office in January - triggered mayhem at airports in the United States and ov...

Jury still deliberating in case of officer who shot Castile

Yanez shot Philando Castile five times just seconds after Castile informed him he was carrying a gun. Mr Castile had reportedly been reaching for his ...

Amazon Patents Idea For A Hive Of Drones

Currently, the classic warehouse model can be improved in two major ways: situating the new and improved "fulfillment centers" within major cities, as opposed t...

Justice Sotomayor Stands Up For Church State Separation

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas chose not sign onto a footnote that said the court's approval of funding for Trinity Lutheran only applied to play...

Three CNN journalists resign over this Trump Russia story

Scaramucci weighed in on Twitter on Saturday morning about the network's decision to pull the story, calling it a "classy move". FILE - In this January 13, 20...

House Repeal Bill Critic Cotton Mum on Senate Version

The dissension is swelling after Congress' nonpartisan budget referee said the high profile measure would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026 than ...

SC partly lifts Trump's travel ban: what does it mean?

The U.S. Supreme Court says it will consider the case of President Donald Trump's executive order restricting travel - and in the meantime much of the order m...