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Some senators in talks to avoid nuclear clash over Gorsuch

As for Manchin and Heitkamp, Schumer said: "I've made my arguments to every member, including them, and each member is going to make his or her own decision". I...

Confirmed: Presidency announces Gordhan out, Gigaba in as finance minister

When he recalled Gordhan from his overseas investment roadshow on Monday South Africans from across the board responded with a very clear message: don't touch...

Xi Jinping meets Trump next week

President Xi Jinping will meet President Trump at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on 6 and 7 April. In a statement Thursday, the White House said that th...

Malaysia hunting for more N Korean suspects in Kim's death

Kim said in his New Year's address in January that North Korea had "entered the final stage of preparation for the test launch of intercontinental ballistic m...

First casualty for House Freedom Caucus after health care meltdown

Poe tweeted Friday that some lawmakers "would've voted against the 10 Commandments". Rep. Ted Poe announced Sunday he has resigned from the conservative Hou...

N Korea missile launch flops

It said it was analysing what type of missile North Korea launched. The attempted launch was carried out on March 22 at an air base on North Korea's east co...

House Public Education Committee advances fixes to Texas public school finance system

When 181 lawmakers, thousands of policy groups, the media, and people from across the state and nation migrate to Austin every two years for the Texas Legislati...

French national in Shanghai attacked in knife assault, consulate says

Father-of-five Shaoyo Liu was shot dead on 26 March when police broke down the door of his apartment. Liu probably had good reason to believe those plainclot...

Ivanka Trump's White House Role Has (Finally) Been Confirmed

Trump now will be required to file Form 278 financial disclosure reports with the Office of Government Ethics and be required to comply with the financial confl...

New fallout in House investigation of alleged Russian Federation election meddling

CBS News obtained a letter from the Justice Department to the attorney representing Yates. But the next morning, the Justice Department sent a letter to O'N...

House Intel Dem invited to view documents at White House

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman. Sen. They both put in a joint request to Mr Comey to share with their committee the information given to them in the c...

3 storm chasers die in vehicle crash while pursuing tornado

These nighttime storms will carry a risk for large hail, strong winds, and possibly a few tornadoes. "The main threat with that is going to be the potential f...

Ad campaign urges Democrats to support Gorsuch

It's unclear if they will have those votes - of the 10 Senate Democrats who are up for re-election in states Trump won, five have already said they will vote a...

Russian Federation has stepped up efforts to influence elections, experts tell Senate panel

Speaking at a congressional hearing on Russian meddling in the presidential election on Thursday, Warner calls the tactic Russian propaganda "on steroids "...

Meat shortage reaches AMU, students say mess fee may go up

AMU Student Union President Faizul Hassan said that the students from middle class are suffering from this decision as the university is on the verge of doublin...

Nunes under pressure in Russian Federation probe

The White House has denied it tried to stop potentially damaging evidence about links between the President's team and Russian Federation from being made pu...

Privacy advocates plan to fight Congress' repeal of ISP privacy rules

However, the new Trump administration and Republicans have opposed the rules, claiming they go too far to regulate the internet industry. Violation of onlin...

Bomb Threats Made To Rockville High School In Wake Of Rape Case

According to Maryland authorities, on Tuesday at approximately 9 am, 17-year-old Jose O. Montano and 18-year-old Henry E. Sanchez-Milian, both from the town ...

Indian Pacific Wheel Race cancelled due after cyclist Mike Hall

The last movement on Hall's Global Positioning System tracker was at the location of the accident, at around 6:30am. Update 02:00 BST March 31: While the iden...

South Korea's ousted president questioned by prosecutors

But she lost her presidential immunity when she was dismissed and could face more than 10 years in jail if convicted of receiving bribes from bosses of big cong...

Tillerson Asserts 'Difficult Choices' Are Ahead For U.S. And Turkey

They are hard options. "It all makes for a hard diplomatic problem for Tillerson to figure out how to manage", said John Hannah, a senior counselor at the W...

South Africa's Zuma sacks Gordhan as finance minister in reshuffle

The catalyst for the sudden weakness was a presidential order sending the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, home from an investor roadshow with little explanati...

Shiv Sena MP 'grounded' for hitting AI staffer, FIR lodged (Intro Roundup)

This led to an argument with the airline employees in Pune and an assault on the manager by the MP when the aircraft landed in Delhi. But that didn't mollify th...

Top Democrat Says 'No' To Neil Gorsuch Confirmation

If Republicans can't flip eight Democratic votes, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell could invoke the so-called nuclear option , allowing Gorsuch to be confirmed ...

Justice Department appeals ruling against Trump's revised travel ban

Watson , the Hawaii judge, issued an order temporarily blocking enforcement the ban on issuing visas to people from Syria, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan...

DOJ will appeal Hawaiian judge's ruling halting Trump's revised travel ban

The Trump Administration formally opened its appeal of Judge Watson's new order on Thursday night by filing a notice that it will take the case to the Nin...

Kim Jong Nam's body arrives in Beijing

Najib said an autopsy had been completed and the victim's family has formally asked that the body be returned to North Korea . A van believed to be carrying ...

Penis seat installed to raise sexual harassment awarness

They have designed a certain seat on Metro known as the "penis seat". Mexico City's mass transit system has installed a device to combat sexual harassment of ...

French police release father of Paris airport attacker

That vehicle was later found at Orly airport. A few minutes later, he hurled himself at three soldiers on patrol in its South Terminal, throwing a bag with a ...

Putin on Russian Federation meddling in election: 'Read my lips. No.'

The Kremlin had hoped for a thaw in relations with the United States with Trump's election, but the congressional investigation of possible links between his ca...

Chuck Barris Dies: 'Gong Show' Host Was 87

Appearing in an era of rapid social change, Barris' shows could somehow seem at once of their time, ahead of their time and behind the times. Barris would argue...

2 men wanted for murder of Kim Jong Nam have left Malaysia

John McCain has managed to infuriate North Korea after criticizing both Kim Jong-un's politics and physique in one scathing crazy fat kid insult. The inci...

Abbas: No New Peace Plan in Works With Israel

But on other key issues, it is a region deeply divided. Greenblatt also met with the Qatari and Egyptian foreign ministers at the summit. This week, Israeli P...

Israel approves first new West Bank settlement in 20 years

Establishing a new settlement could be a way for Netanyahu to appease far-right members of his coalition government who are would be likely to object to any con...

Supreme Court ruling brings clarity to Nevada special education plans

He exhibited educational and behavioral difficulties, and his parents eventually made a decision to enroll him in a private school specializing in children wi...