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President Trump's Son-In-Law Kushner Arrives In Iraq

Greg Hicks. Dunford's spokesman, navy Captain Greg Hicks, said Kushner was travelling on behalf of Trump to express the president's support and commitment to ...

Nikki Haley Says Trump Has Strengthened the Military, Crowd Boos

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Western allies applaud strike on Syria amid questions of next steps

His comments echo the response from Russian Federation, which like Iran is allied to Syria, and from Syria itself. The United States launched the missile ...

Trump's UN envoy says ouster of Syria's Bashar al-Assad a priority

Many Syrians opposed to Assad's rule consider Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iranian-backed troops as occupiers seeking to drive out mainly Sunni Syrians from the area...

Taiwan issue irrelevant in Trump-Xi summit

The two men shook hands for about three minutes, putting on their friendliest faces for reporters. Much of the Communist Party's top leadership will change du...

US Navy strike group to move toward Korean peninsula

North Korea conducted another ballistic missile test on April 5, shortly before Xi and Trump met. Kim has said previously his regime is close to developing ...

PM Hasina's India visit to be 'landmark,' says her political advisor

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Atlanta bridge fire suspect was smoking crack before blaze began, warrant says

Reports state the origin of the fire began in a state-owned storage unit under the bridge where the state stores construction materials and supplies, such as h...

Trump and Xi Jinping 'made tremendous progress' at summit

PALM BEACH, Fla . - The White House is circulating a letter President Donald Trump sent to the leaders of both houses of Congress explaining his decision to...

LR Lions to hold Breakfast with Bunny and egg hunt

Registration for the free event begins at 5 p.m.at the Noble Park baseball/softball fields. Egg hunts will be at 2:30 p.m. for ages 1-4, 3:15 p.m. The East...

Burr leads Senate's bipartisan Russian Federation inquiry

In his opening statement, Committee Chairman Sen. Rubio was considered a favorite to win the GOP nomination a year ago, but he dropped from the race in March ...

Kim deal chance for North Korea to bury murder evidence

The two countries had been locked in a diplomatic row in the wake of the killing in Kuala Lumpur last month. However, he said the police were awaiting North...

Sunday shows preview: White House officials talk Syria strike

It marked the first time the US intentionally conducted a strike against the Assad regime, which has been entangled in a years-long civil war against vari...

Ex-NFL star begins presenting defense in double-murder trial

Hernandez, now 27, grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, and played for the Patriots from 2010 to 2012. "There is absolutely no evidence that Aaron Hernandez commi...

The more Trump talks about health care, the more popular Obamacare gets

Vice President Mike Pence and two top White House officials made the offer in a closed-door meeting with members of the House Freedom Caucus, but there are stil...

More Democratic senators oppose Trump's US Supreme Court pick

Time magazine says 35 Senate Democrats have pledged to vote to block Gorsuch , that's just six votes shy of the number needed for a successful filibuster. "We n...

John Cornyn: Neil Gorsuch Is 'No Extremist or Judicial Radical'

Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota said they would vote for the Colorado jurist. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,...

Racist attacks on African nationals continue: Kenyan woman thrashed in Greater Noida

One of the injured Nigerians alleged that he was assaulted for no reason. The students were set upon after the death of an Indian teenager from a suspected dr...

Liquor ban: States look to denotifying roads, moving court for concessions

Besides liquor vends, a large number of liquor bars in restaurants and hotels along the national and state highways are also in troubled waters and as such stak...

British officials seek access to jihadist's WhatsApp messages

Brian Paddick, a home affairs spokesman for the opposition Liberal Democrats and former deputy assistant commissioner in the Metropolitan Police, said the secur...

One For Arthur wins the 170th Grand National

Rather like former South African champions Jeff Lloyd and Dougie Whyte, who have never won the Durban July, UK jumps champion Richard Johnson has never won the...

Boris Johnson calls off Moscow visit over Syria

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Frid...

Neil Gorsuch Is Officially Confirmed To the Supreme Court

Republicans had to go " nuclear " in order to get Gorsuch confirmed, opting to rewrite the rules to eliminate the need for a 60-vote majority to confirm Sup...

Republican House Rules: How the GOP Confirmed Gorsuch

Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.) and Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) voted yes on Gorsuch's nomination. Sen. On Thursday, Senate Republicans crushed through...

Trump to make China state visit, says top US diplomat

Mr Trump said he believes he made " tremendous progress " in the US-China relationship during talks with Mr Xi. Mr Trump pressed Mr Xi to do more to curb Nort...

Trump reaches out to Seoul for support on North Korea, Syria

Xi had arrived at the meeting with a gift of "tweetable deliverables", sources said - peace offerings on Trump's signature issues of trade and jobs that were me...

Russia responsible by proxy for Syria chemical deaths

Much of the global community rallied behind Trump's decision to fire the cruise missiles in reaction to this week's chemical weapons attack that killed dozens...

Russia: US airstrikes against Syrian regime help extremists

Sen. John McCainJohn McCainSyrian father: USA strike "not enough" Sunday shows preview: White House officials talk Syria strike Dem pushed plan for both sides ...

Iran's Rouhani condemns U.S. attack on Syria, chides Gulf Arabs

Russian Federation and Iran , who back the Syrian government, have responded angrily to the strikes, while allies who criticised President Barack Obama's cauti...

Pence Revives Talk of Embassy Move; Ambassador Dermer: No Daylight

The prime minister spoke Monday by video feed from Yerushalayim. "The United States tells them what we're not going to put up with, " Haley said. Greenblatt...

National Hockey League decision on Olympics regrettable — IOC

I've been lucky to play Olympics once, so at least I have that under my belt. That reverses the league's practice since the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, pa...

Trump administration dials back transparency on military intervention in Iraq, Syria

This story has not been edited by Firstpost staff and is generated by auto-feed. He said investigators are trying to determine whether ISIS was fighting from ...

Ivanka Trump and husband's finances laid bare

The documents show that the couple has an income of over $200 million, but that their business empire, which is mostly real estate, is worth about $700 million ...

Six people arrested after deadly St. Petersburg subway bombing

The Investigative Committee of Russian Federation, the main federal law enforcement agency, identified the bomber as Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, 22. Moscow and oth...

Head of United States intelligence inquiry refuses to step aside

Schiff, D-Calif., said Monday that it's "not a recommendation I make lightly", NBC News reported . "I'd like to know first what the goal of that would be",...