China 'sends response' to US reform demands
If China fails to "fundamentally change its behavior", it will face all-out cold war with Washington and its partners, US Vice President Mike Pence told The Washington Post. What happens next depends ...
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1,600 Lawyers Send Powerful Message To Senate Republicans: ‘Protect Robert Mueller Probe’
During an appearance on " State of The Union ", Schumer claimed that if Whitaker did not recuse himself, he would introduce budget protections for the Mueller investigation into the next spending bill...
Pence: U.S. Won't Budge to Avoid Cold War With China
A ministry spokesman, Gao Feng, said Thursday the two sides are "maintaining close contact" following a November 1 phone call between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump . China has rep...
Word of the year? Oxford Dictionaries says it’s positively ‘toxic’
That's the view of the esteemed Oxford Dictionaries , the British publisher that has been been defining language - and our times - for over 150 years. 'Not to mention the continued public condemnatio...
Prosecutor to discuss pair who raised $400K for homeless man
The campaign raised almost $400,000 from around 14,000 contributors last fall. D'Amico and McClure had previously denied any wrongdoing or misuse of the funds , even as their recent purchase of a u...
Monkey snatches 12-day-old baby from mother’s arms, fatally bites him
Ajay Kaushal, the police officer in charge of the Sikandra police station, told Reuters on Wednesday that a group of monkey's entered the house, but only one went after the child. "The child's skull...
Rohingya repatriation depends on voluntary return
I escaped to Bangladesh with two others. The UN has said senior Myanmar officials should be investigated and tried for genocide over the operation, which the army says was targeting militants. But i...
German Chancellor Merkel Joins France’s Macron in Calling for European Army
She stressed that only a strong Europe can defend its values. "The times that we could rely on others without reservation are over", she told European MPs in her speech . Her comments came a week a...
Call to grant Asia Bibi asylum gets strident in UK
Pakistan's high court recently overturned her conviction and ordered her release in a decision that sparked public outrage and protests across the predominantly Muslim country. Earlier, Bibi's hu...
Khashoggi murder case: Saudi Arabia prosecutor seeks death penalty for five accused
Khashoggi's killing has provoked global outrage but little concrete action by world powers against Saudi Arabia , the world's largest oil exporter and a supporter of Washington's plans to contain Ira...
Ottawa talking with Pakistan about bringing acquitted woman to Canada
Bibi has been blocked from leaving Pakistan after the overturning of her conviction prompted a wave of protests among Islamist hard-liners. Pakistan's Express Tribune newspaper reported , however...
Michelle Obama kicks off book tour at United Center
Obama put her whole self on the line in her memoir and those themes translated onstage - although, in the hands of Oprah, it's impossible not to go there. 12, 2018, a day before the launch of a book t...
Coalition, Yemen Rebels Agree on Informal Truce
Hodeida was calm on Thursday, for a third consecutive day. The official said the mercenaries use civilians as human shield. Almost three quarters of Hodeida's estimated 600,000 people have escaped s...
QBullet: SC Reserves Verdict on Rafale; PM Modi Meets US VP Pence
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice President Mike Pence had "productive discussions on all aspects of global strategic partnership based on growing convergence of interests on regional and glob...
Bunnings Changed Its Sausage Sizzle Rules & Aussies Are NOT Having It
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she expected to raise why a strong friend like New Zealand was being punished by the tariffs. Bunnings have explained that the reason for the change is for h...
Stormy Daniels’ Attorney Michael Avenatti In Custody After Domestic Violence Allegations
According to the report, the woman was seen running out of a high-end apartment complex in Century City, which is in Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday. He also was reported saying, "This is bulls...
Iran executes 'Sultan of Coins' amid currency crisis
In August, the United States re-imposed a first round of sanctions after pulling out of a 2015 deal between world powers and Iran under which global sanctions were lifted in return for curbs on its ...
Mike Pence says Myanmar's handling of Rohingya 'without excuse'
On Tuesday Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamed made an unusually harsh public criticism of Ms Suu Kyi, saying that as a former political prisoner she should better understand suffering. "I look ...
Pregnant Indian woman killed in arrow attack - unborn baby survives
It is said that Sania originally was Devi married to Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo but divorced him and re-married Imtiaz Muhammad and led a happy life. The 42-year-old was at home when he noticed the a...
Irish outcry over teenager's underwear used in rape trial
In courts victims can have their underwear passed around as evidence and it's within the rules, hence need to display in Dáil . The verdict has incited much anger online with many woman taking to s...
Turkey walkout deals fresh blow to Italy’s Libya talks
Italy has been eager to play a high profile role in Libyan diplomacy, competing with France, which staged a conference in May, the last time Haftar and Serraj met. Spring 2019 will span between Mar...
China's stealth fighter J-20 flaunts missile payload: Should India be anxious?
Four of the missiles in the J-20's belly are long-range air-to-air missiles, while the two on the sides are short-range combat missiles intended for dogfights, Song Zhongping , a military expert, tol...
California Camp Fire joins list of most destructive blazes in the state
In addition, NASA's own Terra satellite captured an image of the Camp Fire's plume, in a wide shot including a view of the Hill and Woolsey fires in Southern California . Farther south near Los A...
Judge orders extension in Palm Beach County machine recount
In a situation uncannily similar to the infamous "hanging chad" fiasco which engulfed the US state after the Presidential election of 2000, in which George Bush took the state from Democrat Al Gore ...
‘Passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized’
Fox News President Jay Wallace said in a statement that the network will file an amicus, or friend-of-the-court, brief with the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The White House claimed tha...
Central American migrants arrive in Tijuana
The migrant caravan, consisting mostly of Honduran citizens, recently resumed its journey through Mexico towards the USA border after a several-day-long stop in the country's capital. As the San Di...
Goldman Sachs bankers ‘cheated’ Malaysian state fund
The bank is facing allegations of a multibillion dollar fraud at Malaysia state investment fund 1MDB. United States prosecutors filed criminal charges against two former Goldman Sachs bankers earl...
Death toll climbs to 48 in California's most lethal wildfire disaster
Almost 9,000 firefighters, many from out of state, were battling to suppress the Camp Fire , the Woolsey Fire and a handful of smaller Southern California blazes, backed by squadrons of water-dro...
Custody dispute played role in slaying of 8 OH family members
During Tuesday's press conference, Dewine declined to go into details regarding any alleged criminal activity by the victims. The victims were identified as 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr .;...
Deadly fire leveled a California town in less than a day
The fire has left nine people dead, the Butte County Sheriff's Office said Friday. But an expected narrow window of calm is giving firefighters hope of slowing the flames that have marched a path of...
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Rashida Tlaib addresses supporters; grandmother reacts angrily to Trump tweets
August 18, 2019She said the US commitment to Israel isn't dependent on either leader, a sign there may not be lasting fallout from this week's incident, particularly in terms of foreign aid, which must be approved by Congress. "It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit". "Israel was very respectful & nice to Rep. Rashida Tlaib , allowing her permission to visit her 'grandmother.' As soon as she was granted permission, she grandstanded & loudly proclaimed she would ...