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Man charged with DUI after auto impaled by cactus during crash

Kai Scott, 39, was arrested on suspicion of DUI and criminal damage, deputies said. Officials say the driver hit the cactus when his auto crossed a median. Th...

House votes to limit Trump's Iran war powers

The House Friday voted to block President Donald Trump from waging war against Iran without congressional authorization. Congressional flamethrower and av...

EU Signals Sanctions on Ankara over Drilling Off Cyprus

The ship dropped anchor off the island's north-eastern Karpas peninsula on Monday. Cyprus has waged a far-reaching diplomatic campaign, accusing Turkey of b...

Brazil president mulls making son envoy to US

Eduardo Bolsonaro, now a federal congressman, told reporters separately he would accept the role if nominated. "My son Eduardo speaks English, speaks Spanish ...

UK Police Launch Criminal Probe Into Leaked Cabled On Trump

Britain's ambassador to the United States Kim Darroch (C) listens as U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May hold a joint news conf...

UK PM May takes swipe at front-runner Boris Johnson

That was the verdict of a poll among party members conducted by the website ConservativeHome. Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is now unstoppa...

Viral Video Shows Short-Tempered Bachelor Blowing His Top in Bagel Shop Brawl

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Lake popular with Instagrammers actually power plant's 'dangerous' dumping ground

It's easy to understand why would-be Instagram influencers , travel bloggers, yoga models, and newlyweds stand alongside the iridescent blue waters, using th...

Pakistani judge who jailed former PM Nawaz Sharif sacked over blackmail claims

However, Justice Farooq chose to write to the law ministry to relieve Justice Malik from his position as an accountability court judge until an investigation ag...

Goa CM Meets Amit Shah, 10 Congress MLAs Formally Join BJP

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday said that he is confident that the JD (S)-Congress will win a vote of confidence ...

Some of $175,000 returned after money melee on I-285

While the truck was making it rain, drivers pulled over to join in a literal cash grab. They say the side door of the armored vehicle came open and the money sp...

South Korea proposes United Nations probe into Japanese sanctions claims

Japan last week tightened restrictions on the export of three materials used in smartphone displays and chips, following frustration over what it sees as South...

Mike Pence visits overcrowded, bad-smelling facility for detained migrants in Texas

Demonstrators hold a "Lights for Liberty" rally march and vigil near the US Mexico border on Friday. "Look, for the last six months, Democrats in Congress hav...

Here's Why Twitter Experienced a Worldwide Outage

The site claims the disruption was due to an "internal configuration change". Outage tracking website Downdetector .com showed that there are almost 50,000 i...

Maui residents are allowed to go home, but wildfire persists

Maui Mayor Michael Victorino said South Maui is suffering from poor air quality due to the large amounts of smoke created by the fire. It jumped a highway and s...

West, Japan rebuke China at UN for detention of Uighurs

China claims that Uighurs are being educated in "vocational training centres" created to combat extremism. The letter expresses concern "about credible repo...

China threatens sanctions against USA companies selling weapons to Taiwan

Since she became president in 2016, Tsai has made several trips to the USA, and each time, Beijing urged Washington to stop her from entering the country, a mov...

'Several Dead' in Somalia Hotel Attack

The attack on Friday, according to security forces killed at least seven people with death toll likely to rise. "A blast took place in Hotel Asasey within the...

U.S. wants North Korea freeze as beginning, not end, of denuclearisation

North Korea has also long called for a peace deal with the United States to normalise relations and end the technical state of war that has existed since the 19...

Paul Ryan Tells Author Retirement Was 'Escape Hatch' From Trump

Late on Thursday, Trump swung back at the former speaker. US President Donald Trump unloaded via Twitter on former GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan , calling h...

Overnight magnitude 4.6 natural disaster rattles Washington’s Puget Sound region

People reported shaking in the Seattle area to as far south as Tacoma and Olympia, the USGS said. Two minutes later, a 3.5 magnitude natural disaster was ...

Mom faces felony charge after girl licks tongue depressor

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400,000 people have joined a Facebook event pledging to raid Area 51

CNN reports while the event may be a joke, it comes just weeks after a group of us senators in Washington met behind closed doors to get debriefed on members o...

Nationwide ICE Raids To Begin Sunday, Target 2,000 Migrants

Senior Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer warned the Trump administration that ICE should not split families with young children if it carries out the raids . "T...

Embroiled in Epstein controversy, Trump's labor secretary steps down

A coalition of civil rights, human rights, labor and other groups opposed his nomination by Trump to the department's No. 2 slot, citing Pizzella's record on la...

U.S. captures semi-submersible after high-speed chase

In the footage, a crew member yells "Stop your boat!" The US Coast Guard Twitter published a video of the interception of a ship carrying a consignment of coc...

House panel votes to subpoena Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner

The committee's resolution also authorizes subpoenas for testimony and documents related to the Trump administration's policies related to immigration enforceme...

Appeals Court Dismisses Emoluments Case Against Trump, President Reacts

Trump tweeted that he doesn't make money but loses "a fortune" by serving as president. Attorneys general from Maryland and the District of Columbia are ...

Turkey receives first delivery of Russian S-400 missile system: Ankara

Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation confirmed it had started delivering the S-400 to Turkey and that the deliveries would continue as p...

Woman delivers their baby after fertility center embryo swap: Couple

The California lawsuit alleges negligence and emotional distress, as well as claiming CHA Fertility broke a state law preventing the use of embryos for any obje...

Maduro says he is hopeful about Barbados talks with Venezuelan opposition

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday told the state television that the government delegation started talks with the opposition in Barbados. Political...

U.S. proceeding with plan for coalition to deter Iran threats

The US blames Iran for multiple attacks on oil tankers , while Tehran has also shot down an unmanned American military surveillance drone . Under the plan...

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson jailed for nine months

Supporters of Robinson gathered outside the court as the sentence was handed down. Robinson, who founded the English Defense League organization, was original...

16 killed, over 80 injured during train collision in Pakistan's Punjab

A passenger train crashed into a stationary freight train in Pakistan on Thursday, killing 11 people and leaving more than 60 injured under overturned carriag...

UK Labour Awash with Anti-Jewish "Hatred and Acrimony" — BBC Report

On Monday broadcaster Channel 4 published a survey of 892 Conservative Party members by pollsters YouGov which showed that 56% believed Islam was a general thre...