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Tillerson: China, US Aim at Mitigating Tensions on Korean Peninsula

The day before Tillerson's visit, he said "all options are on the table" with North Korea, reversing the approach of previous administrations and signaling to ...

Local sheriff: Leaders of sanctuary cities 'should be arrested and charged'

Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican. There is no set definition for what constitutes a "sanctuary city", but the term generally refers to municipalities that...

Over 7000 people attend "unauthorized" protest in Moscow

Yet, under such conditions, around 90,000 people in more than 90 cities across Russian Federation (according to the estimates by Meduza) showed a willingness to...

Netherlands sacks manager Danny Blind

The Netherlands, three-time World Cup runners-up, also failed to qualify for Euro 2016. The writing was already on the wall for Danny after he was summoned to...

Supreme Court orders new look at 'swipe fees' law

Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote a short, separate opinion, accepting the outcome but offering his own thoughts on how to decide cases involving free speech and ...

Bulgaria's Socialist leader concedes election

Borisov, 57, once a bodyguard for Bulgaria's last communist leader, has always been the dominant figure in national politics, serving as premier from 2009 to 20...

Vt. congressional delegates condemn Trump's EPA order

Many have noted that despite Trump's claim that his slashing of environmental regulations will bring back jobs to former coal mining regions in the USA, eve...

Bevin: Climate Change Regulations 'Not Based On Science'

Saying that it would "start a new era of production and job creation", Trump signed a sweeping executive order Tuesday scrapping much of Barack Obama's climat...

It's over: Britain files for divorce from the European Union

The EU is demanding the United Kingdom first pay a £50 billion ($63 billion) fee, and there is the threat of sweeping tariffs being imposed if a deal isn't st...

Gov't watchdog to examine cost of Trump's Florida travel

Each trip Trump takes to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, where he has gone most weekends since his inauguration, is estimated to cost taxpayers in excess of $ 3...

Trump reversal: GOP pulls bill at president's request

Republican tax credits would be based on age, not income like Obama's, and the tax boosts Obama imposed on higher-earning people and health care companies would...

France's Macron confident of winning parliamentary majority

They show Socialist Benoît Hamon set for a humiliating fifth place in the first round eliminator on April 23rd. Polls suggest Macron is the front-runner in th...

Northern Ireland: Direct rule an option if talks fail, says minister

He justified this on the basis that there is no enthusiasm for either early elections or direct rule from Westminster. "But direct rule is not an option". Witho...

Christie mum on bridge lane-closure sentences

Kelly is expected to be sentenced later Wednesday. "I let the people in Fort Lee down", Baroni said in federal court in Newark. "One day, I truly hope that Ma...

Magnitude 4.4 quake reported north of Enid

The quake struck about 20 miles off the coast in the Bering Sea, near the Kamchatka Peninsula. This is a developing story . A 4.4-magnitude natural disast...

Trump budget cuts would hit UN, international agencies hard

The Trump administration budget director Mick Mulvaney claimed at a press conference there was no evidence the programmes, which serve more than 1.6 million c...

Bernie Sanders: Gorsuch 'brought the confirmation process to a new low'

That requirement, which was cited in several other subsequent court decisions against disabled students, was refuted this week by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justi...

Brexit a defining moment for Britain: May

The approval of the Brexit bill was a victory for the prime minister, and she said Tuesday it gave "a very clear message to everybody in Europe that we mean bus...

Global Coalition to Counter ISIS Needs to Think Beyond the Battlefield

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who meet with Trump on Monday, said he was assured that the US will accelerate support with a more aggressive stance than ...

Pound trading lower in the run-up to Brexit

And therein lies the rub, Theresa May's signing of the letter and its delivery in Brussels make for pretty good, symbolic photo opportunities but it's what happ...

Scottish Parliament backs call for second independence referendum

See here, here and here. "It will be a journey that will involve the negotiations with the European Union, it may be a journey that involves transitional me...

Russians say meeting with Kushner was 'routine business'

Your afternoon shot of politics, sent straight from the desk of Joshua Miller. As I wrote earlier Tuesday, Nunes has regularly gone out of his way to cast doubt...

Kim Jong Nam's identity confirmed by using child's DNA, official confirms

The suspects have been arrested and charged with the murder. He asked why the person who applied the VX agent, which is fatal if a tiny amount is inhaled, is ...

Baby Taken After Mother Stabbed — MN AMBER ALERT

Minneapolis police also arrested 26-year-old Hershel Theo Hulbert. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, just before 6 a.m. officers were called to ...

Goon MP Gaikwad Barred from Flying In India

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Friday said that "suo moto action" can not be taken against Shiv Sena member Ravindra Gaikwad for assaulting an airline sta...

No LGBTQ category included in Census proposal for 2020 count

However, those questions were removed from the final report delivered to Congress yesterday, which many are taking as a sign of erasure of the LGBT community....

Giant Gator Wanders onto Golf Course During Tournament

A video captured one of the animals at the Osprey Point Course on Kiawah Island. A huge alligator disrupted a golf tournament in SC this week. Moores told...

United States general says coalition 'probably' had role in civilian casualties in Mosul

Speaking from Baghdad to reporters at the Pentagon, Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said a recent spate of civilian casualties in Mosul was "fairly predictable...

Found: A New Population of Endangered Tigers

Images of four mothers and six cubs, captured by camera traps in an eastern Thai jungle throughout 2016, confirm the presence of what is only the world's second...

Bogus doctor gets 10 years for injecting toxic substances into patients

The sheriff's office said Shatarka Nuby died after being injected by Morris in the hips, butt, thighs and breasts with a substance that caused her skin to...

Putin meets French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen at Kremlin

Mr Putin added that Ms Le Pen - a nationalist, Eurosceptic candidate with hardline stances on immigration and radical Islam - represents a "European political ...

USA actor Gere compares West Bank town to 'Old South'

Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told reporters. During that month, he said, two major announcements were made for a total of 5,500 housing units in Area C, the...

Kremlin denies ordering politician's murder in Ukraine

According to Russian state-run TASS news agency, Putin's spokesman Dimitry Peskov said any claims that Russia is connected to the killing are " absurd "....

Cities vow they'll resist the Trump administration over 'sanctuary' policies

But local law enforcement in cities around the nation say that refusing to hold nonviolent, minor offenders until immigration agents arrive to detain them helps...

United Kingdom stocks rise as Brexit talks set to kick off

Just over nine months after Britain's voters narrowly chose to pull their country out of the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May formally started the leg...