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07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
The United States has condemned a legislative measure to extend South Sudan government’s term in office and said in a statement it remains skeptical that the country's political leaders can oversee a peaceful and timely transition to democracy.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Jeep executive Mike Manley will be the new CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles after longtime leader Sergio Marchionne's health suddenly deteriorated following recent surgery. The announcement after an emergency board … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
A Pakistani candidate from the party of prime ministerial hopeful and former cricket star Imran Khan was killed in a suicide attack that wounded four others, a police official said, just days ahead of Wednesday's general elections.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
At the ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools Pesach Eisen attended in Brooklyn, most of the day was spent studying religious texts with classes taught in Yiddish. One class at the end of … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday it was looking more and more like his campaign for the 2016 presidential election had been illegally spied upon.
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Sunday that it was looking more and more like his presidential campaign was illegally spied upon.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Hundreds of Israeli LGBT advocates and their supporters are on strike, protesting the exclusion of gay men from a recently passed surrogacy law. Protesters marched in Tel Aviv and other … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
French authorities have opened a judicial investigation into the beating of a protester in May by one of President Emmanuel Macron's top security aides. The shocking attack by Alexandre Benalla … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
One app promotes itself as a way to discuss sensitive negotiations and human resources problems without leaving a digital record. Another boasts that disappearing messages "keep your message history tidy." … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit western Iran on Sunday, injuring at least 25 people, hours after two quakes struck Hormozgan province in the south, state television reported.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
An inquiry has found no evidence that the wife of Malta's prime minister benefited from a secret offshore company, contrary to allegations by murdered reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Typhoon Ampil hit Chinese financial hub Shanghai around midday on Sunday, bringing heavy rainfall and disrupting transport and shipping.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A suicide bombing on Sunday in northwestern Pakistan killed a candidate running for a seat in the provincial assembly and his driver, and wounded three other people, police said. It … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Latest on immigration into Europe (all times local): 1:20 p.m. Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted 40 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, near its shores, bound for Europe. … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Britain's slow move away from the European Union took a new twist Sunday as the new Brexit chief suggested that Britain might not pay its 39 billion pound ($51 billion) … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 New York Times Top News
The Israeli government facilitated the passage of the rescue workers and their families through its territory to Jordan so that they could be resettled abroad.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Crossing into Syria from neighboring Lebanon, visitors are greeted by giant posters of President Bashar Assad. The signs proclaim: "Welcome to victorious Syria." In the capital of Damascus, many of … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 USA Today - Nation
Nicole Kidman reveals the pleasure of the energy and enthusiasm of the fans she met at Comic-Con as she promoted her latest film 'Aquaman.' (July 22)
07/22/2018 USA Today - Nation
Jake Johnson reveals what he gives to his interpretation of Peter Parker as he voices the iconic character in 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.' (July 22)
07/22/2018 USA Today - Nation
'Stranger Things' star, Millie Bobby Brown gives the lowdown on breaking her leg and enjoying the gifts she received while she recovered, during her visit to Comic Con in San Diego. (July 22)
07/22/2018 USA Today - Nation
Ryan Reynolds reveals how he loves to freak out 'Deadpool' fans and his enjoyment of the costumes at Comic-Con as he promotes 'Deadpool 2' in San Diego. (July 22)
07/22/2018 USA Today - Nation
Jake Johnson reveals what he gives to his interpretation of Peter Parker as he voices the iconic character in 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.' (July 22)
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
The Israeli military evacuated hundreds of members of the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization, from the volatile frontier area on the Golan Heights and transported them to Jordan, following … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Zimbabwe's former leader Robert Mugabe has been forced out but he's hardly faded away. Ahead of this month's historic election, dozens of people in T-shirts with his image danced to … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
A 15-year-old Indonesian girl who was raped by her brother has been sentenced to six months in prison for having an abortion, police said Sunday. Both the girl and her … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Pope Francis has lamented the latest migrant deaths in shipwrecks of smugglers' boats and entreated nations to act swiftly to prevent more tragedies. Francis in his traditional Sunday appearance to … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
By Jonathan Landay, Arshad Mohammed, Warren Strobel and John Walcott
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
By Jonathan Landay, Arshad Mohammed, Warren Strobel and John Walcott
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
In June last year, Khoeun Virath was elected as a commune councillor in the capital of Cambodia, but months later his political party was banned and most of its leadership fled into exile - so now he works as a tuk-tuk driver to make ends meet.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Lebanon has for decades struggled with daily power cuts that leave residents sweating through their shirts summer after sticky summer. The bankrupt national power company, unable to build new power … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying "America should know ... war with Iran is the mother of all wars," but he did not rule out peace between the two countries, either.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday cautioned U.S. President Donald Trump about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, saying "America should know ... war with Iran is the mother of all wars," but he did not rule out peace between the two countries, either.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin was noticeably absent from a gala kicking off a yearlong celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the first moon landing, even though his nonprofit space … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
1 dead, dozens of hostages freed after Los Angeles standoff LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman was shot and killed when a gunman ran into a busy Los Angeles supermarket … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Israel will reopen Gaza's main commercial crossing and expand its fishing zone on Tuesday if a lull in cross-border tensions holds after a truce with the enclave's dominant Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the Israeli defense minister said.
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department.
07/22/2018 New York Times Top News
Here’s what you need to know about the week’s top stories.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Chinese President Xi Jinping has offered Sri Lanka a fresh grant of 2 billion yuan ($295 million), as Beijing tries to expand its influence in the tiny island country off India's southern tip.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
One of Russia's best-known graduate schools, created to avoid a brain drain among top academics in the newly open Russia of the 1990s, has lost its state accreditation, amid fears … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
A scandal over faulty vaccines in China has sparked anger on social media, underscoring the difficulties regulators face in rebuilding trust after years of food and drug safety controversies.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
What to do during Britain's hottest summer in years? Why, count butterflies, of course. Britain is holding a Big Butterfly Count to help experts assess the state of the wildlife … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 USA Today - Nation
Los Angeles Trader Joe's standoff: Woman killed in shootout, injured suspect taken into custody
Authorities say a woman was fatally wounded when a gunman being chased by police in Los Angeles fled into a Trader Joe's and took dozens of hostages.
07/22/2018 Tri-City Herald Local News
School children in Kenya are helping to fight deforestation by planting seeds using slingshots. It's part of an initiative by the company SeedBalls Kenya, which makes and sells seedballs globally. … Click to Continue »
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Israel's LGBT community launched a one-day strike on Sunday, blocking a main thoroughfare in Tel Aviv, in protest over the exclusion of gay men from surrogacy legislation passed last week.
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
Police in Los Angeles arrested a man who took hostages and barricaded himself inside a Trader Joe's grocery store on Saturday, ending a three-hour standoff during which he fatally shot a woman, authorities said.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Human rights groups called for an independent investigation on Sunday, after Indonesian police shot dead 11 men earlier this month as part of a security clampdown ahead of the Asian Games.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
A Pakistani anti-narcotics court has jailed for life an aide of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for misuse of a key drug-making chemical, a government prosecutor said three days ahead of a divisive general election.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Russia's military said it had shot down two unidentified drones that attacked its Syrian air base at Hmeimim on Saturday and Sunday, Russian agencies reported.
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
German industry groups warned on Sunday, before European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker meets U.S. President Donald Trump this week, that tariffs the United States has imposed or is threatening to introduce risk harming America itself.
07/22/2018 Reuters Top News
Jordan said on Sunday 800 people including members of Syria's "White Helmets" civil defense group had been evacuated from southwest Syria where Damascus' forces are advancing against rebels, with Israeli officials saying they facilitated the mission.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
Jordan said on Sunday 800 people including members of Syria's "White Helmets" civil defense group had been evacuated from southwest Syria where Damascus' forces are advancing against rebels, with Israeli officials saying they facilitated the mission.
07/22/2018 Reuters World News
The chairman of an international panel set up by Myanmar to advise on the Rohingya crisis has rebutted criticism by the body's former secretary, saying the panel is effective and the government has acted on its recommendations.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
Jordan said on Sunday that it had allowed the UN to arrange the entry and passage of 800 Syrian civil defense workers whose lives were in danger after a government offensive that regained rebel-held parts of southern Syria, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
07/21/2018 Reuters World News
Jordan said on Sunday that it had allowed the UN to arrange the entry and passage of 800 Syrian civil defense workers whose lives were in danger after a government offensive that regained rebel-held parts of southern Syria, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
At a rally, Vice President Mike Pence urged Republicans to vote for Brian Kemp in a runoff on Tuesday. Mr. Kemp has said he would be a “politically incorrect” governor, worrying some Republicans.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
A suspect fleeing the police ran into the store and barricaded himself inside, the authorities said. Earlier in the day he shot his grandmother and another woman.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
A woman whose nine family members were among the 17 people killed when a tourist duck boat capsized in a storm on a Missouri lake said on Saturday she is not sure if there is any way to recover from such a loss.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
A gourmand who explored Los Angeles’s immigrant communities, taco carts and chic restaurants, Mr. Gold won renown in the culinary world and a Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
U.S. director of intelligence Dan Coats said on Saturday he in no way meant to be disrespectful toward President Donald Trump with what he called his "awkward response" to news of a second planned Trump summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
Among the dead were Tia Coleman’s three children. “If they don’t make it, Lord,” she recalled praying on the boat, “take me too.”
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
The United States sought to woo Europe and Japan with free trade deals on Saturday to gain leverage in an escalating tariff war with China but its overtures faced stiff resistance from France at a G20 finance ministers meeting dominated by trade tensions.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
Japan should be careful about recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump on currencies and might need to convince Washington its monetary easing is not aimed at weakening the yen but beating deflation, a finance ministry official said on Saturday.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
While life jackets are a normal accessory in aquatic recreational activities, they weren't required to be worn by passengers on the Ride the Ducks boats in Branson, Missouri and some experts argue that the safety equipment could actually have made escaping the sinking vessel even harder.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
With a five-under-par 66 in the third round, Woods was again challenging to win his 15th career major, something that has not happened for five golf seasons.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
The FBI on Saturday released documents related to the surveillance of former Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page as part of a probe into whether he conspired with the Russian government to undermine the 2016 U.S. election.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
Houston police are studying surveillance video and following up on tips in the killing of a cardiologist who once treated former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and was fatally shot while riding a bicycle in the city's medical center, authorities said on Saturday.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
Mr. Coats, the nation’s top intelligence chief, said his “admittedly awkward” reaction to President Trump’s invitation was not intended to be critical.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
The release offered a rare glimpse of national security wiretap files and raised echoes of a fight in February over the Russia inquiry between Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
Here's the latest for Friday July 20th: President Trump responds to reported Cohen recording; Judge Kavanaugh responds to senate judiciary committee questionnaire; Hamas says it accepts ceasefire with Israel; A classic car parade in Moscow. (July 21)
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats says his comments at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado were not intended to be critical of Trump.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
Here's the latest for Friday July 20th: President Trump responds to reported Cohen recording; Judge Kavanaugh responds to senate judiciary committee questionnaire; Hamas says it accepts ceasefire with Israel; A classic car parade in Moscow. (July 21)
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
Argentina is "unequivocally" making progress on its goals to cut its fiscal deficit as part of a $50 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Saturday.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
Nearly a year after the rally, the city’s first black female mayor has vowed to address centuries of racial and economic disparities.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
A Reuters reporter accused of obtaining secret state documents in Myanmar told a court on Monday a policeman had called him on the day he was arrested and insisted on a meeting, at which the officer abruptly handed some papers to him and a colleague.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
The couple was in Branson to celebrate Hamann's recent birthday.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
Young independent artists are writing the city’s present, and future, into their music.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, said that the administration would not interfere with the decisions of the Federal Reserve or move to manipulate the value of the dollar.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
Robert "Bob" Williams — who was an occupant of a duck boat that sank Thursday in Branson, Missouri — was working to establish a center that serves veterans and the homeless.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
Officials have released the identities of those killed in Thursday's duck boat sinking on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
I broke my arm and had to rethink everything.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
President Donald Trump says he now wants a second meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin. AP's Ken Thomas reports the White House has been repeatedly forced to clarify presidential statements after the criticism over their Helsinki meeting. (July 19)![]()
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
A Dallas police motorcycle officer who was struck by a suspected drunk driver during a funeral escort early Saturday morning died after he was taken to a hospital, police Chief Renee Hall said at a news conference.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
American policies have complicated life along the often remote and haphazard line dividing the United States and Canada.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
The request, by Russia’s foreign minister, followed a week when Moscow had appeared to control the narrative on a range of international issues.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
The World Cup 2018 soccer ball Russian President Vladimir Putin gave to President Donald Trump is undergoing a security screening. Veuer's Maria Mercedes Galuppo has more.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
With a tweet, President Trump signaled open warfare on his longtime fixer, who has publicly discussed the idea of cooperating with the Justice Department.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
Some in China are building a future that isn’t quite ready. Still, the exuberance may be a good thing, as useful products find their place and bad ones disappear.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
The G.O.P. better stand for something — and stand up to someone — soon.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
As locals gather to support victims and families impacted by Thursday's boating disaster that killed 17 in Missouri, there are numerous opportunities to help from afar.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
A Michigan ballot initiative points the way to reforming gerrymandering, one of the most anti-democratic practices in American politics.
07/21/2018 New York Times Top News
Trump can’t wait for his Putin play date.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
CVS has fired a pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription of a transgender woman seeking hormone medication at a Fountain Hills location, and the drug store chain apologized for the incident.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement that the plane veered off the edge of the runway and caught fire, but all passengers were able to escape the aircraft.
07/21/2018 USA Today - Nation
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denied any wrongdoing a day after reports that his onetime attorney Michael Cohen had recorded them both discussing buying the rights to a story by a woman who said she had an affair with Trump.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
Russia's foreign minister told his U.S. counterpart on Saturday that a woman arrested in the United States on accusations she was a Russian agent had been detained on "fabricated charges" and should be released.
07/21/2018 Reuters Top News
A truce between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, largely held on Saturday a day after one of the most fierce flare-ups along the volatile border in years.
