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Norway was just ranked the happiest country in the world

The report found that "all of the top four countries rank highly on all the main factors found to support happiness: caring, freedom, generosity, honesty, heal...

School choice bill gets its first hearing in Texas

Analysis: Can Abbott assemble an army for this session's pre-K fight? A federal appeals court past year ruled that the Texas law discriminated against poor and...

USA border agent sexually assaulted teen sisters in Texas, ACLU says

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NYPD increases security at British Consulate, NYC buildings following London attack

NY police ramped up security at British sites across the city on Wednesday after an assailant fatally stabbed a policeman outside Britain's parliament and was t...

Wellingborough MP describes Parliament lockdown after 'serious incident'

She then ran with a group of people away from the Houses of Parliament to a safe location nearby where they now under the care of the Metropolitan Police. In to...

Donald Trump to attend North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in May

Trump's plans were announced Tuesday evening. The transatlantic bond is "getting stronger", Pentagon chief Jim Mattis told NATO's Jens Stoltenberg on Tues...

Germany To Compensate Gay Men Convicted Of Historic Anti-LGBT Law

The bill, which was approved Wednesday by Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet, still requires final approval from Germany's Parliament where her ruling right-lef...

Erdogan says may review ties with Europe after referendum

In a speech broadcast on television at the weekend Erdogan said: 'When we call them Nazis they (Europe) get uncomfortable. Turkish government officials are ...

British parliament attack: What we know so far

Ambulance services said at least 10 people were hurt. "There were some with minor injuries, some catastrophic", said Dr. Colleen Anderson of St. Thomas's Hospit...

Israel Ranked World's 11th Happiest Country

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GOP Sen. Jeff Flake: Trump should apologize for wiretapping claim

Through pursuing impeachment for the scenario of former President Clinton, the Republicans set the bar really low. In the Trump administration, that kind of...

Netmarble Games seeks to raise up to 2.7 tln won via IPO

The firm said in a filing [ in Korean ] that it will issue 16,953,612 new shares priced between 121,000-157,000 KRW each (that's approximately $108-$140) with a...

Marquette Poll: Trump Approval Rating at 41 Percent in Wisconsin

White voters disapprove 44 - 50 percent, compared to a narrow 49 - 45 percent approval March 7. The poll found that 54 percent favored keeping and making impr...

Brief Baghdad peace shattered by new IS bomb attack

Islamic State has recently intensified its campaign of violence in the capital while a 100,000-strong alliance of Iraqi forces extends its advances against the ...

Donald Trump Reacts After Being Briefed On Parliament Terror Attack

Donald Trump has offered the "full co-operation and support" of the USA in response to an attack in Westminster. "He pledged the full cooperation of the United ...

Supreme Court sets higher bar for education of students with disabilities

Senate panel. "This standard is markedly more demanding than the "merely more than de minimis " test applied by the 10th Circuit", the court held in an opini...

Dog rescues girl found in a ditch

Her previous owner was convicted of animal abuse. Nearly a year later, Petunia has a new name, Peanut, a new home and another chance at life. The medium-si...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: "I didn't want this job"

Tillerson says he was content to retire on his modest $180 million golden parachute and live the simple life on his modest equestrian estate . Tillerson's ...

Roger Goodell announces National Football League looking to speed up pace of play

The NFL is always looking to improve its game and these changes typically take place in the offseason around the NFL owners meetings. Goodell acknowledges tha...

Rex Tillerson says wife convinced him to take secretary of state job

When Tillerson told Clair about the job offer, she replied saying "I told you God's not through with you". "My wife convinced me", he said. "She was right",...

Nunes: Trump Communications were Collected…Incidentally

Nunes said he alerted House Speaker Paul Ryan about the collection and is traveling to the White House Wednesday afternoon. "Details about US persons associa...

Donald Trump meets Haider al-Abbadi at White House

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Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking at links between Trump associates and Russian Federation

Hours before the House Intelligence Committee opened the first public hearing into both controversies, Trump sought to steer the news focus by branding the Russ...

Who's happy, who's not: Norway tops list, US falls

The top five on the list were occupied, and no surprises there, by Nordic countries, with Norway occupying the top position followed by Denmark, Iceland, Switze...

[Graphic News] Norway ranked world's happiest country

That's despite the United Nations Human Rights office chastising the country past year for " ineffective " measures to reduce homicides, as well as " extraj...

Joe Biden Speaks On Capitol In Defense Of Obamacare

Biden's beef with the Trump administration ranges from its effort to undo President Barack Obama's signature health care legislation to floating unfounded charg...

All eyes on Election Commission's call on Two-Leaves symbol

The Election Commission has ordered that neither of the two factions can use either the two leaves poll symbol or the party's abbreviated name, AIADMK in the el...

Ukrainian Lawmaker Says Manafort Hid Yanukovych Payments

Mr Leshchenko says the latest documents were found in Mr Manafort's former office in Kiev. On the same day, according to the Post, a $750,000 entry is liste...

Rex Tillerson's wife convinced him to be U.S. secretary of State

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BDS founder reportedly arrested by Israeli authorities for 'tax avoidance'

Israeli authorities have arrested Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, for evading taxes on $700,00...

Trump and his team don't want to talk about his golf game

White House press secretary Sean Spicer received a valuable history lesson on Monday when he told reporters that a lot of things that need to get discussed aren...

Former chairman of Colorado Republican party suspected of voter fraud, forgery

According to the criminal complaint, Curtis tampered with a 2016 General Election mail-in ballot, signing his wife's name which led to the forgery charge. "We'r...

Teen Abducted By Her Teacher Still Missing

Police said that weeks after another student reported seeing her and Cummins kissing, Thomas , 15, went missing. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said t...

CBSE unveils news exam, assessment format for Classes 6 to 9

In order to help students gear up for the board exams, a uniform assessment scheme will have to be followed by the schools affiliated to Central Board of Second...

Wait, What? Visa Denial Bars Actual Africans from African Economic Summit

About 60 people from at least a dozen African countries, including South Africa, were reportedly denied visas by the US State Department for an annual Afric...