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National Peace Officers Memorial Day

Officer Raabe had served the Milwaukee Police Department for eight years. On the second day of the 2016 Law Enforcement United ride, Mariano went into cardi...

Putin aide says Moscow unconcerned about Comey

The U.S. State Department issued a readout later, saying Tillerson and Lavrov met "for more than an hour to discuss a range of issues including Ukraine, Syr...

Trump to meet Russian FM Lavrov on May 10

March 20, 2017: Comey testifies at the same hearing that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department have no information to substantiate Trump's ...

Israel fires down incoming "target" from Syria

Israel has not officially assumed responsibility for the attack, but local media reported that the strike targeted a weapon arsenal of Hezbollah, a Lebanese S...

The Senate's Trump/Russia investigation is getting serious

Democrats said they believe that line, and the timing of the letter , indicate that the dismissal was really about the FBI's investigation into whether the Tru...

Trump delays decision on Paris climate deal

Security Council late last month. Main advisors to President Trump and cabinet officers were due to meet on Tuesday to decide whether Trump should keep his ...

Clapper and Yates Grilled In Senate Subcommittee on Russian Probe

Yates also noted during her testimony that "several court decisions since that time" have questioned the legality of the January 27 travel ban and looked at T...

Energy projects in question as Liberals win British Columbia minority

Weaver, now holding the balance of power, also hinted at how his party would handle votes in the legislature, saying the Greens would take an issue-by-issue a...

Wall falls onto guests taking shelter in India, killing 24

Bharatpur is almost 125 miles south of New Delhi. TV footage showed anxious relatives standing next to hospital beds. District Collector NK Gupta said one of ...

Trump firing Comey shrouds Russian Federation probe in doubt, turmoil

Trump stated. Former campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said that while he believed Comey had "inflicted severe damage" on the FBI, "the timing and manner of t...

Los Angeles Dodgers start with a grand slam and keep going

It was the first time the Dodgers have hit grand slams in back-to-back games since September 7, 2004 (Robin Ventura and Olmedo Saenz). I had a chance to stop ...

White House Unveils Timeline of Trump Decision to Fire Comey

To Sarah Sanders, the White House deputy press secretary, the cyberattacks that laid waste to the president's political rivals last summer is ancient history,...

Prioritising Europa League not a gamble, says Mourinho

Marcus Rashford scored the only goal of the first leg to give United a 1-0 advantage, but came off the pitch after 80 minutes with an injury. Was this part ...

Niece of France's Le Pen held as rising star quits politics

Her more than 10 million voters - up from 7.6 million in the first round - testify to the success of her bid to de-demonise her party by purging it of overt ant...

Frat member told 911: 'We have a friend who's unconscious'

Piazza, a 19-year-old sophomore from New Jersey, died after consuming large amounts of alcohol and sustaining traumatic brain injuries when he fell several ti...

Trump moves to get more conservatives on federal bench

The two judges from the Supreme Court list are Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen, nominated to the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

S. Korea's new president will engage North, reconsider THAAD

It was believed that the relationship between China and North Korea had reached new lows in recent weeks as many feared that Pyongyang was prepping for a sixth ...

Climate talks open in Bonn, with all eyes on Washington

Several former Obama administration officials on Monday called on the Trump administration to recognize that the Paris agreement is not overly constraining and ...

New Hamas chief tours native Gaza, highlights power shift

Gaza-born Haniyeh, 54, served as Palestinian prime minister after Hamas won a 2006 parliamentary election and he continued to claim the title, despite being off...

India using Jadhav's conviction as diversionary tactic: Pak

He said India had made 16 requests for consular access to Jadhav but there was no response from Pakistan. In abusive and derogatory messages left on the AIF...

Texas Legislature Approves Bill to Punish 'Sanctuary Cities'

But as a result of the settlement, the county also made a new policy that prohibits deputies from enforcing federal immigration law. Terri Burke, the director o...

Betsy DeVos Heckled During HBCU Commencement Speech at Bethune-Cookman

Numerous graduates loudly booed DeVos as soon as she began speaking at Bethune-Cookman University. Roughly half of the graduates turned their backs on her a...

Colbert has good week in ratings despite controversy

So many memories". "The same character, half an hour later, half a block away". "There's never gonna be another president this good for comedy", she said. Col...

Chibok family anxiously await news about their daughter

This move has received criticism from Amnesty International , who objected by calling the meeting a "publicity stunt that largely doesn't reckon with their pri...

Trump hosts Russian foreign minister, envoy at White House

This comes one day after Trump fired Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey, who has been investigating collusion between the new administration a...

Syrian Kurds welcome U.S. arms, Turkey objects

Ankara strongly opposes US support of the YPG, viewing it as the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party ( PKK ), which has waged a three-decad...

Now, China says it tested new missile in northeastern sea

It just said the test was carried out recently . The Bohai Sea is a body of water off the coasts of Tianjin municipality, Shandong, Hebei and Liaoning provin...

Former "Bachelor" arrested in Iowa

Soules was arrested after allegedly fleeing the scene of the accident. Iowa State Patrol spokesman Sgt. Scott Bright said Soules left the crash scene on foot ...

Ismail Haniyeh elected new Hamas chief

Haniyeh takes charge of Hamas as it seeks to ease its worldwide isolation, while not marginalizing hardliners within the movement. This new position from Hama...

Syria deal's no-fly areas put US, Russia at odds

Security zones on the edges of the areas would be set up to monitor and ensure access, with forces from the three guarantor nations manning checkpoints and obse...

What is the Significance of Grand Jury Subpoenas in the Flynn Investigation?

What was his role at the White House in those 18 days? Flynn's conversations with Kislyak are believed to have been monitored as part of normal USA intelligence...

Philippines' Duterte says chat with Xi was at Trump's request

Duterte also publicly attacked Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, multiple times a year ago, once calling Obama the " son of a whore ", before walking that s...

A timeline of Yates' warnings to the White House about Mike Flynn

Attorney General Sally Yates said Monday she warned the White House in the early days of President Donald Trump's administration that his national securit...

California Lawmakers Vow To Thwart New Offshore Oil Drilling

The Obama administration instated this rule using the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act , which the administration thought would be more hard for Trump's ...

Hamas elects Haniyeh as political head

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed two USA media outlets - CNN and The New York Times - for disseminating false reports about a document from...