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N. Korea leader oversees special forces op as tensions soar

A senior Japanese diplomat said the United States was putting "maximum pressure" on North Korea to resolve issues peacefully while putting responsibility on...

Sheila Abdus-Salaam US judge found dead in New York's Hudson River

Ms Abdus-Salaam, who was born in Washington DC , was appointed to the New York Court of Appeals , the highest court in the state, in 2013. Her husband identif...

NY becomes the first state to make college tuition

Students from families making up to $100,000 a year would be eligible in the program's first year, and by the third year that would increase to $125,000 a year....

Lawmakers slam Trump for bypassing Congress on Syria strike

As did Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.). Trump has received widespread support for the military action, taken to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad's government...

America's first female Muslim judge found dead on NY riverbank

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Cases, but also cafeteria duty, await Gorsuch at high court

Gorsuch earlier in the day took his separate constitutional oath, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court with th...

Erdogan to reconsider EU membership plans after referendum

The vote could extend Erdogan's rule for many years and, in his opponents' view, further erode Turkey's challenged democracy. Since the arrival in power in ...

Rouhani calls for forming fact-finding committee on Syria

US President Donald Trump said there was no doubt Assad was responsible for the attack . Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow views t...

Operator of plane identified in fatal crash at Rostraver Airport

Deputy Coroner Joshua Zappone arrived at the scene about an hour after the 2:40 p.m. crash. The wreckage was searched to ensure there wasn't a passenger, but ...

President Trump says Planned Parenthood funding is now a states issue

The measure passed the House easily and then passed the Senate, with Vice President Mike Pence as the tie-breaking vote. The measure gets rid of a rule approv...

Giants' Posey 'doing good' after struck in head by pitch

Matt Moore , acquired in a trade for fan favorite Matt Duffy, pitched like a Cy Young contender. Matt Moore (1-1) struck out five in eight impressive inning...

United States show of force to North Korea also could show United States weakness

When US President Donald Trump had dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time, US Navy ships were pounding Syria with a salvo of 59 cruise miss...

Canada introduces legislation to legalize marijuana

The Liberals have said they are aiming to have the legislation in place by Canada Day 2018 . "We know the science is clear", Carrie said. When it com...

Iran's Ahmadinejad to run for president

Ahmadinejad had previously insisted he would not run after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said past year that his candidacy would have a "polarizing" effect on the ...

North Wales Police Pay Their Respects to PC Keith Palmer

Around 5,000 serving police officers and 50,000 members of the public lined the route from the Palace of Westminster to Southwark Cathedral for the funeral of P...

Will the United States take on North Korea?

The U.S. and other foreign governments have long overestimated China's ability to affect Pyongyang's behavior, said Ruan Zongze, a U.S. relations expert at th...

Russia ties worsened under Donald Trump, says Vladimir Putin

USA administration officials have said evidence clearly shows Assad's forces were behind the attack and that sarin gas was used. Our chief foreign affairs c...

US Seeks to Persuade Russia to End Support for Syria's Assad

Rex Tillerson, US secretary of state, said Washington would expect Russian Federation to rethink its support for Mr Assad because "every time one of these horri...

Sessions outlines border enforcement plan

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to crack down on unauthorized immigrants during a visit to the U.S. -Mexico border at Nogales, Arizona, Tuesday. Ses...

Russia-US ties at 'low point', but progress made at Moscow talks

He says both countries have agreed that their lines of communications must stay open. By casting a veto on a UN Security Council resolution condemning the S...

North Korea preparing for sixth nuclear test, monitoring group says

Trump said Xi "wants to do the right thing". Japan's act of solidarity with Donald Trump's "armada" follows the USA president's warning that Washington wo...

Islamic State says US 'being run by an idiot'

Iraqi and USA -led worldwide coalition officials have repeatedly warned that after Mosul, IS will likely return to its insurgent roots as it loses more territor...

Sergei Lavrov urges US to stop further attacks on Assad

Putin added that Syria had given up its chemical weapons stocks, Reuters also reported. The fallout from Assad's chemical attack last week and the US airstrik...

Russia won't 'shield anyone' in chemical probe

But there was a violation of global law. Tillerson said punitive sanctions for the alleged meddling - imposed by Obama against Moscow in December - were al...

Assad: Chemical Attack Allegations '100 Percent Fabrication'

But any such expectations have crashed into reality amid the nasty back-and-forth over Syria and ongoing US investigations into Russia's alleged interference in...

Officer fired after kicking handcuffed man

Wednesday, police said in an emailed statement. 'After the arrest, the shift commander initiated an immediate investigation into the incident'. An investiga...

Officer investigated after handcuffed man kicked

They have a 3:00 press conference planned. The almost two-minute video, taken by a witness on a cellphone, appears to show a police officer pull a driver, who...

Nigeria thwarts Boko Haram plan to attack US, UK embassies

As a result, almost 1,500 children were detained previous year across Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. Bangladesh executes 3 over 2004 attack on British en...

Mourning Churches in Southern Egypt Will Not Celebrate Easter

In the Tanta attack, the bomber was able to enter the church and reach the front rows before blowing himself up. "We will not wait another five or 10 years be...

Has $120000 Stake in United Community Financial Corp (UCFC)

Finally, FSI Group LLC bought a new position in E*TRADE Financial Corp during the third quarter valued at approximately $2,097,000. The share of E*TRADE Finan...

Canada to introduce legislation to address overbooked flights

But the country is also putting into place new, "enhanced security measures" on some inbound flights, according to Transport Canada-the agency which oversees Ca...

Hillary Clinton Explains Why She Really Lost to Trump

Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican, is under investigation for supposedly disclosing classified information and stepped aside from the congressional inqui...

Why Steve Bannon Being Fired Wouldn't Necessarily Be A Feminist Victory

Never mind "definitive." I would say that Goodwin did not get any sort of "yes". For many Bannon supporters, the Kushnerites are an invasive species of "Democ...

Trump's chief strategist dumped from US National Security Council

In a presidential memo dated April 4, Bannon no longer appears on the list of regular attendees of NSC meetings. A White House official also told The Atlan...

Trump seems to rule out further intervention in Syria

It was an ominous start to Tillerson's visit - the first to Russian Federation by a Trump Cabinet official. "It can be said that the level of trust at the wor...