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Students trade in pencils for shovels in celebration of Arbor Day

Morton detailed the number of Chicago tree species to DNAinfo as part of its Friday event to honor Arbor Day at the Daley Plaza, where a massive coloring displa...

Trump keeps mum about ousted adviser Flynn

Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform , said the documents raised "grave concerns" about why Mr Fl...

Conservative caucus backs GOP health bill but fate uncertain

The change would allow states to scrap what the caucus described as the "cost driving aspects" of Obamacare. The latest proposal was negotiated by Rep. Pelosi...

Democrat dismisses North Korea briefing as a 'photo op'

Joe Dunford , the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefed members of Congress at the White House today on the review President Donald J. Trump ordered of...

South Koreans Protest US Missile Installation as Tensions Escalate on the Peninsula

Seoul, by turning the peninsula into a powder keg together with the North, is playing with fire", it said. On Tuesday, North Korea conducted live-fire drill...

Allies' security chiefs say THAAD installation 'smooth'

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats described North Korea as "an urgent national se...

US says strategy on North Korea centers on sanctions, open to talks

It has threatened to sink the USS Carl Vinson and has vowed to continue its missile launches. Mac Thornberry, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee...

The Simpsons Rip Donald Trumps First 100 Days in Office

Image via Wikimedia CommonsThis time it's President Trump under the scalpel, noting his first 100 days. At least Ivanka gets her payoff-a seat on the Suprem...

U.S. negotiation remark on North Korea 'positive' - China

In an exchange charitably describable as awkward, Harris was asked by South Carolina Republican and SASC member Lindsey Graham, "Is it fair to say, we do not ha...

Gopal Rai likely to be AAP's new Delhi convenor

He also stressed that AAP councillors are likely to face unwarranted duress as and when they will uncover corruption, but he advised them to stay strong and pur...

North Korea threatens to sink United States aircraft carrier

Earlier this month, North Korea conducted its fifth missile test this year. Trump said he was sending "an armada" to Korean waters potentially to deal with th...

Assad says Syria 'already at war' with Israel

Assad spoke out against Israel as being an aggressor, stating that, "we are already in a state of war with Israel". But the BBC reported Syrian rebel sources ...

Dolphins draft Missouri DE Charles Harris in 1st round

The Dolphins couldn't chance losing Harris. A film-versus-metrics conundrum, Harris is a favorite of devout film watchers. Johnson played left guard for the Pan...

Cancel, not cancel, cancel, not cancel NAFTA: What's Trump up to?

He said that led to a Pena Nieto phone call with President Donald Trump, a USA promise not to leave NAFTA "for now" and a commitment by all three nations in the...

Final results show 51.4 pct supported expanding Erdogan powers - Turkish electoral board

Twenty-five people have been detained in southeastern Turkey for suspected links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen . Turkey has been under a state of emerge...

Le Pen steps down as FN president to gather "all the French"

After the first-round vote on Sunday, Le Pen in a statement on Monday condemned French political parties calling to unite against her and to support Macron. S...

China voices opposition to THAAD deployment, vows military training

Ratcheting-up diplomatic pressure, harsher sanctions, and the possibility of the US government re-listing the North Korean regime as an official state sponsor o...

German foreign minister calls Netanyahu threat to cancel meeting 'regrettable'

BERLIN/JERUSALEM German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Tuesday it would be "regrettable" if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called off a meet...

Trump repeats criticism of court that halted 1st travel ban

Exhausted of getting cucked over and over again, Donald Trump told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday the he has "absolutely" considered breaking up the 9th...

Or It's 'End of FNC as We Know It'

His promotion to co-president of Fox News last fall has raised questions about how the Murdochs, who run parent company 21st Century Fox, have chose to handle...

10 things to know about legal pot

A recent University of DE poll found 61 percent of state residents support full legalization. The poll showed 94 percent of people approve the use of pot ...

Sharks' Thornton played through ACL, MCL tears

The Oilers have been the more aggressive team in terms of shots and hits and I think that is ultimately going to lead to a win today as well. "That's not the ...

Venezuela's OAS Exit Gains Support from International Allies

As a counter to the OAS gathering, Rodriguez said her government was seeking a meeting next week of another regional group - the Community of Latin American a...

United Kingdom could launch Syria strikes without parliamentary approval

Theresa May, it's also probably fair to assume, did not dream of that question being put to her, nor of having to provide an answer, and, slightly robotically, ...

Syria accuses Israel of strike near Damascus airport

Israeli media meanwhile are saying the military knocked out a drone that had infiltrated from Syria. 30 November 2016: Israeli aircraft fire missiles on the...

Assad forces carried out sarin gas attack: French intelligence

Global chemical weapons inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said last week they had found "incontrovertible" evidenc...

BC Liberal leader says all Canadians involved in USA softwood offer balked

Green Leader Andrew Weaver, NDP Leader John Horgan and Liberal Leader Christy Clark (left to right). With attack ads proliferating across the airwaves and bot...

White House briefs Senate and House about North Korea

Earlier on Wednesday , North Korea's Foreign Ministry called US attempts to make Pyongyang give up its nuclear weapons through military threats and sanctio...

North Korean crisis 'worst I've seen,' top Navy officer warns

Admiral Harry B Harris Jr, Commander of US Pacific Command, said on Thursday that the crisis in the Korean Peninsula is the worst he'd since he began serving in...

How major US stock market indexes fared on Monday

Shares in French companies and banks saw the biggest gains across the region with the euro zone's bank index rising more than 5 percent to its highest level in ...

Standoff ends in DE; suspect in trooper death killed

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:29 a.m. Residents in the area remain evacuated. The suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting of a DE state trooper was s...

Arkansas Set to Execute Another Inmate After Possible Botched Execution

U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker lifted the stay . In the emergency filing, Williams' attorneys wrote that officials spent 45 minutes trying to place an IV...

Kodak Black Found Guilty of Violating House Arrest in Florida

A court hearing is fixed for May 4. . A top-10 single and a track on the latest "Fast and the Furious" move soundtrack have made the 19-year-old rapper hotter...

Trump to meet with Italian prime minister

Trump will meet Thursday at the White House with Paolo Gentiloni. There are 1 comment on the Washington Post story from 6 hrs ago, titled Trump says he does...

United States to tighten sanctions on North Korea

It is not clear what further sanctions Washington could impose. "Kim Jong-un is clearly in a position to threaten Hawaii today, in my opinion", Harris testi...