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Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Registers for Presidential Election

During the registration in Iran's Interior Ministry, Ahmadinejad, expressed hope for victory. Ahmadinejad had previously insisted he would not run after A...

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Turns out, President Donald Trump imparted news of attacking another country as if he were discussing his vacation plans to Chinese President Xi Jinping while...

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Unlike the previous ban, Iraq is not included. The next day, a judge in Maryland also blocked the six-nation travel ban but said it wasn't clear that the susp...

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US President Donald Trump described the relationship between the two countries as at an "all-time low". U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson echoed that comm...

Tennessee teacher on run with student running out of medicine

Neither has been heard from since they disappeared on March 13, and they were seen once on surveillance footage at an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Walmart two days ...

FBI Reportedly Monitored Trump Campaign Adviser For Russia Contacts

A former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's campaign whose communications reportedly were monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over suspicions...

Egypt identifies Alexandria church bomber as fugitive with militant ties

Meanwhile, the Muslim community has sent repeated messages of solidarity and condolences to Christians, saying that these attacks do not represent Islam and tha...

Foreign journalists in North Korea gather for "big event" amid tensions

Xi told Trump that China insists on peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and advocates resolving the problem through peaceful means. Apparently, Trump ...

Trump says NATO not obsolete, reversing campaign stance

After all, it formed nearly 70 years ago in response to the growing strength of the Soviet Union. Then, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal , the pres...

House Republicans consider adding risk-sharing program to health care bill

A senior administration source and two senior GOP congressional aides acknowledged that there's no agreement. The House leaves on Thursday for an extended Eas...

Foreign agencies may have abducted ex-Army officer

This was confirmed from Pakistan Foreign Office. He said it is diplomatic and political commitment of Pakistan to raise the issue of crimes against the humani...

Peacefully resolve N. Korea tension, Xi tells Trump

China's state-run broadcaster CCTV reported that Xi and Trump held a phone conversation Wednesday morning Asia time to discuss the situation on the Korean P...

Meet Kay Ivey, Alabama's New Governor

Ivey fired Jon Mason Tuesday from his role as director of SERVE Alabama, the Governor's Office of Faith-based and Volunteer Services, where he reportedly earned...

NY approves tuition-free college for middle class

Starting this fall, undergraduate students who attend a state university or a will be eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship if their families earn no more th...

Xi urges peaceful solutions over North Korea

The United States has sent the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group again toward the Korean Peninsula in an apparent effort to counter North Korea's th...

U.S. teenager Malachi Hemphill accidentally shoots himself dead during Instagram live stream

In the aftermath of Malachi's death, mother Shaniqua has said she wants her son's tragedy to be a lesson to other parents, to monitor their behavior, their phon...

GOP owns health care dilemma now, and voter skepticism

It is time for congressional Republicans and the administration to move on from attempts to undermine or repeal the ACA. While health care was the predomina...

Dortmund angry it was forced to play; UEFA says team agreed

It's our task now to digest this somehow because it's only 24 hours before we have to play. 'We were not attacked on the field by an opponent; we were attacke...

Why are Democrats writing off winnable elections?

Democrats came up just short in their bid to upset the GOP in a special election to replace current Central Intelligence Agency director and former U.S. Romney ...

Lavrov to Tillerson: US Syria Strike 'Unlawful, Very Disturbing'

Russia, Assad's staunchest ally, has insisted that Assad is blameless and that it was actually the rebels responsible for the disbursed chemical weapons. strike...

Trump suggests Rice committed crime, citing no evidence

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North Korea parliament meets, decries U.S. move

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Russia's Assad stance dims hopes for US thaw

Tillerson spoke at a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov . It was stark evidence that the president is moving ever further from h...

NEW INFORMATION: Gorsuch confirmed; Senate approves Trump nominee, 54-45

He will be a great Justice". This may have far-reaching consequences for Court jurisprudence moving forward, with the likelihood that the High Court is only one...

Republicans Take First Congressional Election of Trump Era

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'Last of the Cocaine Cowboys' arrested after 26 years

Barry Golden, a U.S. Marshals Service spokesman in Miami, told the newspaper Falcon obtained fake driver's licenses for himself, his wife and two children using...

Saudi-UK talks focus on security, trade

May has said she would be looking to use the "immense potential for Saudi investment to provide a boost to the British economy" during her trip to the region....

Destruction in fight to take west Mosul worse than east

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Sweden terrorist attack suspect was rejected refugee, showed IS sympathies

STOCKHOLM (AP ) - The Stockholm truck attack suspect from Uzbekistan was a rejected asylum-seeker who eluded authorities' attempts to deport him by giving pol...

Egypt set for three-month state of emergency after church bombings

George. Shortly after, St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria, where Pope Tawadros II was giving a sermon, witnessed an explosion, killing at ...

Marine Le Pen denies France's role in rounding up Jews during WWII

Former French President Jacques Chirac and current President François Hollande have both acknowledged and apologized for France's role in the events at the Ve...

Russian Federation vetoes United Nations resolution on Syria gas attack probe

Later at the White House, Trump said that Russian Federation had likely known in advance of the Syrian government's plan to unleash a nerve agent against its ow...

House Freedom Caucus signals support for healthcare bill with changes

From the party's right flank, Freedom Caucus member Rep. Mark Sanford of SC said: "I've heard nothing of substance at this point that would break the logjam"....

North Carolina legislator compares Lincoln to Hitler

Someone posting as Rep. Larry Pittman , R-Cabarrus, was responding on his "Larry Pittman for NC House" page to critics who derided him for filing House Bill 87...