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Soccer team found alive after 9 days trapped in cave

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Melania Trump arrives in Tucson, Arizona to visit Border Patrol center

The first lady had pressured her husband to change his hardline approach after images of distraught immigrant children dominated headlines in the United States ...

Prince William's historic visit to Middle East

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In a painful reminder of 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape case, an 8-year-old little girl in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur was brutally raped and left for dead with her thro...

Trump says attack on Capital Gazette newspaper ‘shocked conscience of the nation’

The Capital Gazette said neither Hartley nor Marquardt, who were the defendants of the defamation lawsuit, are still employed by the paper, and they were not p...

Michael Cohen Cuts Bait On Donald Trump In Interview With George Stephanopoulos

The comments to ABC were Cohen's his first significant remarks to a major media outlet since federal prosecutors in NY raided his home, office and hotel roo...

American Woman Killed, 9 Hurt in Tour Boat Explosion in the Bahamas

Pete-Clearwater airport. The Coast Guard's Seventh District received a call about 11 a.m. from the Royal Bahamas Police Force requesting assistance after bo...

Trump Rejects Calls To Abolish ICE: 'Zero Chance, It Will Never Happen!'

ICE is under scrutiny as President Trump's "zero-tolerance" policies at the southern border have led to family separations, ultimately sparking nationwide pr...

North Korea Reportedly Expanding Ballistic Missile Production Facility

Kim is the USA ambassador to the Philippines and has been one of the key U.S. officials dealing with the North Koreans leading up to the Trump-Kim summit. "If...

Sen. Collins says Roe v. Wade is off-limits for Trump's SCOTUS pick

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Syrian opposition resumes peace talks with Russians after Jordan mediates

Since June 19, the Syrian regime, backed by its ally Russian Federation, has carried out a deadly bombing campaign to retake the strategic area bordering Jordan...

Golden retriever bitten by rattlesnake protecting owner while on hike

Godwin told KTAR News 92.3 FM that the attack happened fast - she said she took Copper and Todd for a hike when she looked down and saw the rattlesnake. "My h...

ABC secures interview with Trump fixer Michael Cohen

Cohen's remarks, in an off-camera interview with ABC's Good Morning America , will intensify speculation that he may be prepared to "flip" and co-operate with ...

German interior minister 'resigning in migration row with Merkel'

However, sources within the CDU's Bavarian sister party, the CSU, suggested that Seehofer had offered to resign both as leader of the CSU and as interior minist...

British lawmaker calls for bouncy castle ban after girl's death

Witnesses said they heard a loud bang and saw the child being "catapulted" into the air. Norfolk Constabulary said they were called to Gorleston at around 1...

North Korea Increasing Production Of Fuel For Nuclear Weapons

Diplomatic sources linked to the council say U.S. officials refused to back the draft press statement, saying that North Korea's denuclearization must come fi...

Suspect arrested in Idaho mass stabbing

Nine people were injured, some seriously, in a violent stabbing spree in Boise, Idaho , on Saturday night. Police Chief William Bones says refugee organi...

French prisoner Redoine Faid escapes from Paris prison in helicopter

French prosecutors have opened an investigation but it's not the first time that Faid, 46, has gone on the lam. "This was a spectacular escape ". Redoine ...

Protests planned nationwide over Trump immigration policy

Immigration has been on the rise in America and across much of the developed world for decades, roiling politics in recent years across Germany, Britain and the...

North Korea Ramping Up Nuclear Fuel Production at Secret Cites

Such a development is contrary to the promise made by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to President Donald Trump during their 12 June summit meeting in Singapo...

USA media: Trump threatens to withdraw from WTO

Congress, and that Trump was unlikely to carry out his wish. "He's [threatened to withdraw] 100 times". "We always get fucked by them [the WTO]", Trump freque...

Author Carl Hiaasen remembers brother killed in newsroom shooting

CNN is not naming the woman. "She was kind and considerate, and willing to help when needed". Award ceremonies were no foreign atmosphere to Fischman, won many...

North Korea steps up production of uranium fuel

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly plans to travel to North Korea this week to discuss denuclearization plans in a follow-up to the Singapore summ...

Susan Sarandon Says She Was Arrested at Trump Protest in DC

House Democrat Pramila Jayapal was also amongst those arrested, and after her release, posted a video to Twitter criticising the president's "cruel, zero-tole...

Trump fails to rule out accepting Russian claim on Crimea

In a press conference in Moscow, Bolton attempted to dispel concerns over the president meeting with Putin , whose government is at the center of ongoing probe...

French murderer escapes from prison by helicopter

This is the second time he had escaped from a French prison, after he used explosives to blast his way out of jail on a previous occasion before recapture. A po...

Newspaper says it received threats following shooting

Accused gunman Jarrod Ramos marched through the newsroom with a shotgun after barricading the back door so his victims couldn't escape. "The reason we wan...

Three babies dead, 100 missing in migrant shipwreck off Libya

The motor caught fire and water began to enter the vessel, they said . Libya is one of the main departure points for migrants trying to cross into Europe by ...

Juncker Plans Trump Visit as EU Unites on Tariffs

Italy wants to tear up the first-country principle, but the French president, Emmanuel Macron , said he did not want to change the rule, setting the stage for...

Families Belong Together march: Celebs, politicians, activists unite in LA

More than one thousand demonstrators from 47 states descended on Washington , DC, for a peaceful protest and sit-in over a "zero tolerance" immigration poli...

Ocasio-Cortez explains democratic socialism to Colbert

She called out Crowley for paying " lip service to the post-Donald Trump resistance while maintaining largely centrist politics ". "And say goodbye to your fi...

Trump Claims ICE Is Only Reason People Feel Safe

This week, activists picked up even more momentum. Fueling its sudden ascent have been a series of recent shocks to the system. Gillibrand was speaking wi...

Multiple fatalities in mass shooting at Maryland newspaper office

Carl Hiaasen said he was "devastated and heartsick" at the loss of his brother, "one of the most gentle and amusing people I've ever known". "This page is ...

11 bodies recovered at a house in Delhi’s Burari

The victims include four men, three women and four girls. Police said the two gangs are headed by men whose enmity goes back to 2013. Police have rushed to the ...

Canada hits back at United States with own tariffs

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said earlier this month the tariffs were designed in part to stop cheap steel entering the United States via Canada and ot...