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Trump aide lays out 'disruptive' approach on eve of Mideast talks

On Thursday, Trump posted a video of their meeting on Twitter , saying , "An honor to host President Mahmoud Abbas at the WH today". Most observers were quick...

'Fast decision' possible on new Federal Bureau of Investigation director

He is one of at least six candidates slated to interview Saturday at Justice Department headquarters in Washington. Garcia, a former NY prosecutor, held high-...

US To Arm Kurds In Syria, Despite Turkish Opposition

Prior to Thursday's meeting, Yildirim had warned that "there is still an opportunity for the United States to take Turkey's sensitivities into consideration"....

Senate blocks move to overturn Obama-era rule on drilling

They were joined by McCain, Sen. The Obama administration finalized a rule in November that would force energy companies to capture methane that's burned off ...

General Election polls: Conservatives heading for landslide victory

Local Greens convener, James Mackessack-Leitch, who fought the 2015 Westminster election on behalf of the party, said that he was taking a stand against next mo...

San Diego Shooter Made Ex-Girlfriend Listen to His Attack

A police helicopter arrived first, and the pilot reported seeing multiple victims on the ground and that Selis appeared to be reloading in the pool area, Zimmer...

North Korea successfully test fires new long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12

It appears to be the object that other countries believe was launched toward the Sea of Japan a day earlier. North Korea says the missile is capable of carr...

North Korea says new long-range rocket can carry heavy nuke

The provocation came just four days after Moon, a liberal politician, was sworn in as South Korea's new president following the ouster of his conservative prede...

Trump urges Liberty U grads to stand up to criticism

Lawmakers from both parties have spent days questioning the timing of Trump's decision to fire Comey, who was leading the probe into possible ties between Trump...

CIA forms special unit focused on North Korean nuclear threat

It will collect and analyze information on North Korea's nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missile technology that could extend its military threat acros...

Trump says he could name Federal Bureau of Investigation head by next week

Trump added, "But I mean, I'm OK with it". Critics have assailed Trump for abruptly dismissing Comey, who was leading the agency's investigation into alleged ...

China's Xi applauds SKorea's Moon on election win

Ahead of the swearing-in, Moon met with leading lawmakers of Liberty Korea - which advocates a hard line on the North and has repeatedly accused him of being a ...

Sean Spicer refuses to deny that Trump is taping White House visitors

Trump promptly contradicted this sequence of events the following day in an interview with NBC News by saying that he meant to fire Comey regardless of Ro...

Hannity responds to speculation about future at Fox

Shine was also front and center in a blockbuster New York Magazine report last summer about Laurie Luhn, a former Fox News booker who has alleged a longtime...

Trump to meet with Turkey's Erdogan

The two leaders will meet in the White House, next Tuesday, while Erdogan's visit to Washington, the White House said in an announcement, Wednesday. The first...

N. Korean officials meet U.S. experts in Oslo

This composite image provided by Yonhap News TV shows North Korean diplomats Choe Son-hui (left), head of the foreign ministry's North America bureau, and Jang ...

Netanyahu takes issue with Abbas saying the Palestinians teach their children peace

According to a Palestinian news agency the Palestinian delegation saw great importance in the White House meeting , both in terms of stabilizing Abbas's sta...

White House meeting on Paris climate accord postponed

Trump has recently delayed a decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, which asks participating countries to do things like cut greenhouse gas emissions ...

Australian budget set to heighten social and political antagonisms

Mr Morrison has gleaned that people are furious with banks . No taxpayer funds have been used to prop-up the Australian banks . "There are no silver bul...

Trump to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace

President Donald Trump stressed his desire to broker a peace deal in the Middle East as he was joined Wednesday at the White House by Palestinian Authority Pr...

International Olympic Committee evaluation commission kicks off Paris visit

The race began with five cities, but Rome , Hamburg , Germany , and Budapest , Hungary , all pulled out. After 18 months of reading proposals, vision sta...

Abbas: Palestine Still Wants East Jerusalem and 1967 Borders

Trump said last week he sees "no reason" why there can't be peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Trump has made clear that the details do not matter ...

Russia, Saudi Arabia agree to extend oil output cuts until March 2018

In a joint statement that followed an earlier meeting, Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak said they had agreed to...

Trump admin to interview candidates to replace Comey

Both Cornyn's cancellation and DeVos' booing , which inspired more than 200 black college professors to write an open " love letter " to the students who r...

N. Korea accuses CIA of bio-chemical plot against leaders

A statement by the North Korean Ministry of State Security said that Pyongyang would find and "mercilessly destroy" the terrorists. The North's Ministry of St...

Trump calls for tougher sanctions after N Korea missile test

Some experts, including officials in Tokyo, estimate that Sunday's launch successfully tested a new type of missile in Pyongyang's arsenal. On Saturday, a top...

Global cyberattack: A super-simple explanation of what happened

Further reports have emerged about how the ransomware, which has gone on to impact users and businesses in more than 130,000 countries , became such a problem....

French ex-prime minister Valls offers to back Macron in June elections

All that's missing, it seems, are a butcher, a baker and a candlestick-maker. If another party wins a majority, Mr Macron could be pressured to choose a prime...

Iraq Pledges To Crush ISIS 'In Three Weeks' With New Push

Abadi maintains that the US troops already operating in his country, about 7,000, are merely acting as advisers, but many serve close to the front lines around ...

Kapil Mishra slapped during fast; AAP and BJP clash over attacker's affiliation

Earlier in the day, his mother Annapoorna Mishra, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, wrote to Kejriwal and urged him "not to lie" and "reveal" the details of the ...

Donald Trump lampooned for Australian healthcare praise

Trump's praise for the Australian system came as he met Thursday in NY with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hours after the U.S. House narrowly passed a bil...

Tillerson: US reviewing climate change policy

In another agreement reached Thursday, the eight countries agreed to facilitate access by scientists and their equipment and materials to identified Arctic area...

Wife of American detained in Pyongyang pleads for release

He worked at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the same workplace as another American, accounting instructor Kim Sang Dok, whose detention was a...

Erdogan hopeful for breakthrough in dispute on arming Kurds

Turkey says the group is an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. Kurtulmus said Turkey was both defending the territorial integrity of ...

S Korea's Moon sworn in, says willing to go to North

And Moon has responded sharply to repeated hints by the Trump administration that it may launch military strikes against North Korea's nuclear program-strikes...