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Basquiat painting fetches record $110.5M at auction

The untitled painting's new owner is Yusaku Maezawa , a Japanese e-commerce billionaire who collects art . The painting, which had a presale estimate of m...

Netanyahu Welcomes Trump, Delivers Indirect Insult to Obama

Trump also visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and embraced the Israeli ethos, saying that a mighty nation has emerged from the depths of Jewish sufferi...

Manchester leaks will not damage US-UK intelligence relations

Police in Manchester , England, chose to stop sharing some intelligence with the US after details from their ongoing terrorism investigation were apparently le...

Trump brands killer 'a loser' as he stands in solidarity with UK

In Bethlehem , Trump said he was "truly hopeful" for an end to the decades-long conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, and added that goodwill from his vis...

Russian plot to control Trump through his advisers

The president also pointedly thanked Comey for having said "on three separate occasions" that he wasn't personally the subject of the FBI investigation in...

Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye in court for bribery trial

Park met Samsung's Lee in July 2015 and told him she hoped the succession at the world's biggest smartphone maker "would be resolved smoothly under her govern...

Was Montana's wild House race a Trump test? Not so much

According to the Associated Press , with 95 percent of precincts reporting, Gianforte led 51 percent to Quist's 43 percent. U.S. House Candidate Greg Gia...

Texas lawmakers pass adoption bill and anti-gay bathroom amendment

The shooting of Kocurek, who has returned to the bench after 26 surgeries, prompted an examination of judicial security that identified several shortcomings and...

May says will raise Manchester attack leaks with Trump

British Prime Minister Theresa May raised concerns with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday over leaks to U.S. media about the Manchester suicide bombin...

CWA members strike at Cheektowaga AT&T Store

If the AT&T strike goes on for weeks at the time like the Verizon strike, it could result in a disappointing jobs report . "In today's world we can no long...

Texas lawmakers finalize deal on $217B spending bill

Abramson, who was sponsoring the legislation, often votes with the House Republicans over Democrats. It raises the gross production tax on those wells from 1 ...

US diplomat: China tightened border controls with N. Korea

Interestingly the call which was described as "very friendly conversation", was made on April 29, a few days after which he had said in public that he would be ...

Supreme Court says Alabama execution can proceed

Tommy Arthur was put to death by lethal injection at 12:15 a.m. (0515 GMT) in Atmore, Alabama, prison spokesman Bob Horton said, adding there were no complicat...

British Police Decry Apparent U.S. Leaks Of Manchester Attack Evidence

Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi likely received some ISIS training by traveling to Syria in the months before the attack, according to information g...

United Kingdom irritated by U.S. leaks in Manchester attack

Intelligence agents are now investigating reports the football-obsessed Abedi slipped into Syria while visiting relatives in Libya several times in recent yea...

AHCA CBO score makes GOP rush to repeal Obamacare laughable

At 1am on Wednesday, the Senate voted 21-10 to attach an amendment to an unrelated bill about county governments. A Senate committee passed the House's ...

USAA pulling ads from Hannity's Fox News show

Soon after the list went public, reporters began contacting advertisers to ask whether they would continue supporting Hannity after he pushed a conspiracy t...

Moody's downgrades China, warns of fading financial strength

Moody's, the credit rating organisation, has downgraded China's credit rating for the first time in more than 25 years due to concerns over the slowing grow...

Greeks disappointed at no eurozone bailout deal

Athens failed to reach an agreement with its worldwide creditors following hours of late night talks aimed at unlocking the latest tranche of Greece's €86bn (£7...

'I didn't expect that to happen': father of Manchester bomber

The bomber's father, Ramadan Abedi (also known as Abu Ismail), was also detained in Tripoli on Wednesday . Abedi, 22, a Salford university drop-out , had ju...

Presidential spokesman: Netanyahu's remarks on Jerusalem obstruct peace efforts

We'll have more on Trump's visit to Israel and Palestine after headlines. He also urged Israel to comply with "just and human demands" of hundreds of Pa...

Republican overseeing House probe will leave Congress June 30

Chaffetz made the announcement in a statement on his website , ending weeks of speculation about his plans. "I haven't seen that". Our youngest daughter rema...

Henrikh Mkhitaryan makes history with Europa League final goal

UEFA Europa League Final held in Stockholm , just 48 hours after the horror of Manchester City's scandal. Former England manager Fabio Capello believes th...

FBI Russia Probe Is Targeting "Someone Close to the President"

Richard Burr, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. The date of the hearing has not yet been set. "I still have a lot of questions about the motivation and timeframe...

South Korea fires at suspected drone from North Korea

An unidentified flying object from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) crossed an eastern border with South Korea Tuesday afternoon, Seoul's mi...

Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party secures key state election win

Her party's election victory in Germany's most populous state on Sunday highlights her pull among voters as Merkel vows to hold the European Union together, d...

Trump chastises NATO, vows to crackdown on leaks

So after newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron dominated Trump in a battle of handshakes Thursday morning in Brussels , the US president apparentl...

OPEC Agrees 9-Month Extension To Production Cut, WTI Oil Price Slides

Early on May 25, Brent was trading 1.4% lower at $53.21 a barrel with the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark edging down by almost the same amount to $50.5...

Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron exchanged a white-knuckled handshake

President Donald Trump told French President Emmanuel Macron that he had been a supporter in his race against far-right leader Marine Le Pen , although T...

Keating Concerned with One of Trump's Top Picks for FBI Director

The White House has denied the allegations. Swan Song: Joe Lieberman prepares for his final speech in Senate . A top Senate Democratic aide, likewise, ...

Philippine troops battle Islamist militants in city

Authorities provided no details of civilian injuries and casualties, but said at least 31 soldiers were wounded in the attempt to rescue the hostages and esco...

Trump son-in-law Kushner under Federal Bureau of Investigation scrutiny in Russian Federation probe: USA media

Both the House Oversight Committee and the Intelligence Committee requested the memos in early May after The New York Times reported that Comey noted in one o...

The Six Day War at 50: Jerusalem then and now

After leaving Israel , Trump headed to Rome for a meeting with Pope Francis. Trump also expressed an even loftier hope than an Israeli-Palestinian pe...

Melania, Ivanka Trump abstain from wearing headscarves in S. Arabia

Mr Trump, who blamed Iran for instability in the Middle East, was welcomed by the Saudi King as a "friend" to his "second home" country of Saudi Arabia, and t...

Fidget Spinners Soar in Promo Popularity

Some schools have banned them to prevent them from becoming a distraction to students. "They are remarkable and engaged no matter what you put in front of them,...