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Dem Rep. Rashida Tlaib faces backlash for profanity-laced Trump impeachment vow

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has been noticeably reticent on impeachment, telling NBC on Thursday that Democrats should wait for the Mueller report befor...

Suspect Sketch Released In 7-Year-Old Jazmine Barnes’ Murder

It's been nearly a week since the 7-year-old was shot in the head by a passing motorist while riding in her mother's vehicle along with her three sisters. The i...

Ukrainian Orthodox Church Breaks Away From Russian Influence

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, signed the decree of independence, or "Tomos", in Istanbul, formalizing a split that has angered ...

Trump looking forward to meet Imran Khan, improving US-Pak ties

It is expected that the prime minister's visit to Turkey will bring some respite in the prevailing economic crunch in Pakistan as some memoranda of understand...

1 dead, thousands stranded as storm lashes Thailand

Officials said the victim was among the crew of a fishing boat that capsized in strong winds. Nakhon Si Thammarat airport is closed, and Bangkok Airways a...

China says it is restarting trade talks with the US

USA officials are heading to Beijing next week for the first face-to-face talks since Trump and President Xi Jinping in December agreed to a 90-day truce in t...

5 teenage girls killed in Poland "Escape Room" fire

In a follow-up tweet he demanded that the cause of the fire "must be fully explained". Koszalin prosecutor Ryszard Gasiorowski said a leak in the bottled ga...

Trump pushes back on impeachment talk, citing his popularity among Republicans

And yes, in addition to calling him a motherfucker, she also said Democrats were going to impeach him. Her communications director noted that Tlaib also...

Kabul seeks clarity after USA president comment

Trump also said that now Russia, Pakistan and India should be intervening in Afghanistan, not the US. He also expressed his displeasure at the U.S.'s continu...

Federal court extends Mueller grand jury for up to 6 months

District Court, who oversees Mueller's grand jury. A company owned by a foreign country , possibly a bank, is reportedly fighting a grand jury subpoena appar...

Pence, Senior Trump Officials to Receive Raises

The raises will kick in automatically on 5 January, unless there is legislation to stop them, according to office of personnel management documents obtained by ...

5 kids, 2 adults killed in fiery crash

One of the big rig trucks collided with a passenger vehicle in the northbound lanes of I-75 and they slid across the separating guardrail and into the path of a...

U.S. top diplomat warns Iran against space launches

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called Iran's planned space rocket launches as defiance of a UN Security Council resolution, demanding Tehran to cease the...

USA says airstrike targeted militant tied to USS Cole bombing

An American military spokesman says a US airstrike in Yemen targeted al-Badawi, an al-Qaida operative accused of involvement in the October 12, 2000 attack on t...

Shutdown Continues as Democrats Take Back the House

The standoff also prompted economic jitters and anxiety among some in Trump's own party. "What we're asking the Republicans in the Senate to do is to take "ye...

China's serial killer 'Jack the Ripper' executed

Gao's hometown - the Chenghe village in Lanzhou - was shocked to discover that he was behind the gruesome crimes , as he seemed to be honest, quiet, and innoce...

American held in Moscow for spying is also British, Irish

Accusations made by former foreign secretary Boris Johnson that the Kremlin was behind the nerve agent poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in S...

Jazmine Barnes: Texas police release sketch of drive-by gunman

Cops also released a short surveillance video from a nearby business of the killer in his red pickup truck shortly before the shooting, asking for people who re...

Palestinian US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Curses Donald Trump 1st Day in Office

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) wasted no time after her historic swearing-in, stepping into the spotlight again with a call to " impeach the motherf***er", which s...

Hack exposes German politicians' data, but spares far-right party

A link to Merkel's data showed two email addresses used by the chancellor, a fax number and letters apparently written by her and to her. The identity of th...

Video Exposes Inappropriate Behavior Towards Migrant Children in Custody

The case will be submitted on Monday, the sheriff's office said. According to CNN , the incidents were reported to local law enforcement as well as federal ...

Violent street protests after women defy ban to enter temple

A video from a local police official showed two women inside the temple with their heads covered. Women raise their hands to take a pledge to fight gender ...

Defeating May’s deal could mean no Brexit, UK’s Conservative party is warned

Donald Trump's representative in the United Kingdom has said that the "country is in need of leadership" and raised fresh doubts over a trade deal with America...

Canadians held in China since arrest of Huawei executive

Backed by the U.S. and several European countries, Canada's foreign minister Chrystia Freeland has repeated called for the immediate release of Kovrig and S...

United States issues China travel warning about 'arbitrary' law enforcement

The new advisory warns of so-called exit bans which prohibit foreign citizens from leaving China. The bans are sometimes used to force Americans to cooperate...

One man dead after double-stabbing at Church of Scientology in Chatswood

The Church of Scientology in Chatswood, Sydney, is spread over nearly 13,500 square metres, the largest branch outside the United States. A 30-year-old staff ...

Boy 'dies from smell of cooking fish'

Investigators believe the boy had a reaction to the smell of the cooking fish. Camron was rushed to the hospital, but he couldn't be saved. Camron's father,...

Russian Federation formally charges metro Detroit man, Paul Whelan, with espionage

Russia's Federal Security Service announced Monday Whelan was caught "during an act of espionage ". Zherebenkov said he visited Whelan on Wednesday and fou...

Taliban leaders met Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday

This comes as Ali Shamkhani , the Secretary of the National Security Council of Iran on Wednesday informed his Afghan counterpart that Tehran has been holdin...

New Video Shows Crash After Texas Teens Were Throwing Eggs at Cars

Their vehicle then ran a red light at 60 miles per hour, crashing into Silvia Zavala's pickup, killing her, according to officials. "The deceased female was...

Saudi Arabia says 5 face death penalty in Khashoggi killing

The Criminal Court in Riyadh held the first session for the 11 suspects on Thursday, the Saudi state news agency said . Saudi Arabia said it also sent ne...

Russian building collapse death toll rises

Almost 900 people involved in rescue and recovery efforts braved temperatures as low as minus 27 degrees Celsius (minus 16 degrees Fahrenheit) to search through...

Sen. Warren Announces 2020 Presidential Exploratory Committee

In the livestream video taken at her home Monday night, she took a break telling her watchers "hold on a sec". In Boston on Wednesday she revealed that she ...

Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan Tells Team to Remember 'China, China, China'

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told the military service chiefs Wednesday that dealing with China would be his top priority. Mattis announced ...

China issues response to being singled out by Acting Defense Secy Shanahan

In December 2017, Trump credited Mattis for progress in defeating Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists. On his first working day in charge of the...