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Two Air Force airmen killed during training mission in Oklahoma

Simmons, who is the commander of the 71st Flying Training Wing, added that he wants to avoid speculation about what caused the crash. Vance AFB is 65 miles ...

Trump insists on ceasefire as precondition for Afghan peace talks

Taliban officials have told The Associated Press that three Taliban prisoners released by Kabul have been flown to Qatar for a swap for an American and an Au...

Serbia's president confirms Russian spy operation after bribe video

However, Vucic, who is scheduled to visit Moscow on December 4, insisted the espionage operation would not affect Serbia's "very friendly" relations with Russ...

Alex Salmond case: Former Scottish First Minister in court facing 14 charges

Gordon Jackson QC, representing Salmond, said his client denied the allegations. Mr Salmond was Scotland's first minister from 2007 to 2014. The result of...

Trump supports Senate impeachment trial if House moves ahead

This came after the president removed Marie Yovanovitch as US ambassador to Ukraine at Giuliani's urging even as the former mayor was pressing officials in Ki...

Trump Might Veto Hong Kong Pro-democracy Legislation

China , however, has threatened to " take strong opposing measures ", warning the USA will " bear all the consequences " for this "serious violation of worldwid...

Black Voters Take Issue With Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Eradicate Charter Schools

Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) "I wrote the damn bill" quip. In drowning out Warren, she said, the group was keeping the senator from telling the story of black women...

US House passes Hong Kong rights bill, President Trump expected to sign

Republican Senator Marco Rubio said that as the Chinese Communist Party violates "basic rights" of the Hong Kong people, "the United States must make cl...

CNN Attempt to Prove Trump Wrong Fails Epically

His comments came as the House embarked on its fifth day of public hearings as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry, with testimony from David Holmes , th...

FBI official investigated after allegedly altering Russian Federation probe document, sources say

The report has been long-anticipated to reveal abuses and missteps by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against the Trump campaign during the 2016 elections ...

US Navy warships sail through South China Sea, defying China, officials say

Meyer guided-missile destroyer on Thursday passed the Paracel Islands (Xisha Islands, 西沙群島), the navy said. The Chinese military said Chinese ships tracked...

‘Stay tuned’: John Bolton returns to Twitter after alleged White House control

Bolton, as if in response, tweeted again Friday afternoon, claiming it was in fact "the White House" that "refused to return access to [his] personal Twitter ...

Dog puts auto into reverse, drives in circles for an hour

Lucie Police Department . Anna Sabol, who lives across from the cul-de-sac, told the Sun-Sentinel she started watching the car's odd doughnuts after her own...

Mauritius condemns United Kingdom position on Chagos

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised the government's decision, claiming it proved that it "shamefully considers itself to be above worldwide law". Mauritiu...

No more orphans expected to be brought back to United Kingdom from Syria

They must all be brought home before it is too late'. We should be proud of everyone who has worked to make this happen. Britain's Foreign Office did not rele...

Joe Biden's boast of African American voter support backfires

Elizabeth Warren of MA on her proposed wealth tax on the ultra-rich - and brushed off recent efforts by Buttigieg to reach out to black voters , saying "I ha...

Gordon Sondland impeachment testimony: 3 biggest bombshells

It's day four of the House's open impeachment hearings, and testimony from President Trump's ambassador to the European Union is trending higher on Twitte...

Trump directed Ukraine quid pro quo, says key impeachment witness

Sondland's hours of testimony didn't appear to sway Trump's GOP allies in the Senate, who would ultimately be jurors in an impeachment trial. The president ...

Athens Acropolis lights up in blue for children's rights

Every year, Universal Children's Day is observed on November 20 and it marks the day on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of...

Kono urges S.Korea to stay in GSOMIA

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi gestures after talking to reporters about GSOMIA pact with South Korea during G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Nagoy...

Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Charged With Wire Fraud, Tax Evasion

Days later, Federal Bureau of Investigation and IRS agents raided her offices, homes and other locations, seizing money transfer receipts, a laptop, compact dis...

Trump says Iran internet shutdown trying to hide ''death and tragedy'

Unrest spread to scores of urban centers, during which protesters attacked police stations, torched petrol pumps and looted shops. A close to complete web shu...

Trump tweets he will release ‘financial statement’ before 2020 presidential election

Sen. Mike McGuire, a Democrat who authored the bill, said it was a simple requirement for candidates to meet and provided accountability. Last week a federa...

Impeachment inquiry hearings end, for now

Hill filled in the blanks left by conflicting and sometimes erratic testimony from witnesses over the last eight days. "Are you insinuating that some of these...

"Climate emergency" becomes word of year for 2019: Oxford Dictionaries

The dictionary said the phrase had experienced a sharp spike in use over the past year from a postion of relative obscurity. It means a situation in which urg...

16 people discovered in sealed container on ferry to Ireland

The group of people are all males between the ages of 20 and 40, and are believed to have travelled from Belgium about five days ago, according to RTÉ . Office...

PAL aircraft Boeing 777 caught on fire mid-flight

The airplane, which took off from LAX at 11:45 a.m. local time (3:45 a.m. on November 22, Manila time) was headed to Manila when its journey was immediately...

USA says will sanction Iran 'abuses' against protesters

Trump's intervention on Twitter further raised the temperature over the turmoil in Iran , which is already reeling from US-led economic and diplomatic pressu...

Thanathorn: Thai opposition leader disqualified as MP

The billionaire frontman of Thailand's anti-military bloc was stripped of his MP status on Wednesday over a media shareholding case, a court ruling that could...

DOJ IG To Release Report On Origins Of Russia Probe Dec. 9

CNN admitted in its report that the altering of documentation would help "fuel" claims from the allies of the president that the Federal Bureau of Investigati...

Tycoon held over murder of journalist in car bomb

Caruana Galizia alleged on her blog eight months before her violent death that a company called 17 Black Ltd. was connected to Maltese politicians, but provid...

Arrests ordered in Philippines after enforcement of vaping ban

The push to ban e-cigarettes in the Philippines gathered steam after health authorities confirmed that a 16-year-old girl last month showed signs of a lung inju...

U.S. Act Supporting Human Rights in Hong Kong to Become Law

The Chinese government has indicated that it will take retaliatory measures if the bills become law. The signed legislation would be strongest worldwide suppo...

Jury unanimous: Guilty verdict in Millane trial

The jury in the trial for the man accused of murdering Grace Millane has asked the judge a question, while the foreperson says a verdict won't be far away. The ...

IN dad plunges four stories to his death aboard Carnival cruise ship

Darren J. Caprara, director of operations of the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department, told PEOPLE an initial investigation determined that Rice died...