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Democrats to appeal to voters to channel anger over Kavanaugh confirmation

Collins announced her support of Kavanaugh on Friday with a 44-minute speech on the Senate floor in which she offered a point-by-point defense of his judicial...

US Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justice

He comes to the seat after the most divisive of processes, with virtually all institutions of government suffering a measure of potential damage. He was less d...

Nobel Economics 2018 awarded to Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer

Nordhaus is being recognised for his work on the damage caused by climate change while Romer has won the prize for his study on how economists can achieve a hea...

Trump wins: Brett Kavanaugh confirmed to Supreme Court

Noisy to the end, the Senate battle featured a call of the roll that was interrupted several times by protesters shouting in the spectators' gallery before Capi...

Xi Jinping will visit North Korea ‘soon’, says Seoul

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , right, is greeted by U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris upon his arrival at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, in Sout...

Brazil’s right-wing Bolsonaro narrowly misses first round win in presidential election

Mr Bolsonaro obtained 46.7 percent of the votes in Sunday's first-round vote, while Mr Haddad, the stand-in for jailed ex-President Luiz Inacio da Silva, got 28...

Death toll from Indonesian quake and tsunami revised to 1763

Thousands of people are believed to be missing in the towns of Baleroa and Petobo, where rivers of soil swept away entire neighborhoods in the aftermath of a 7....

Sen. Jeff Flake votes to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court

Eugene Cole on what would've been his 62nd birthday. Kavanugh has strongly denied the allegations. Rice, who also served as the USA ambassador to the United N...

Pro-Russian party poised to take power in Latvian election

But it has been shunned by other Latvian parties and kept out of the Cabinet over suspicions that it's too cozy with Moscow, despite the party's pro-EU stance. ...

Susan Collins will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court

The Senate's showdown roll call confirmation vote is expected Saturday afternoon. Deborah Ramirez says the Senate is "looking the other way" when it comes to ...

Melania Trump rounds off Africa tour in Egypt

President Donald Trump has not visited Africa since taking office in January 2017. Get your tiny violins ready because Melania Trump feels "victimized an...

McConnell says Senate 'not broken' after Kavanaugh fight

Susan Collins , R-Maine, in the speech where she announced her support for Kavanaugh, tipping the Senate balance in his favor. Heitkamp said she chose to ...

McConnell: Kavanaugh confirmation among my proudest moments

Unsurprisingly, Mr Trump took a very different tone, tweeting to "applaud and congratulate" the Senate's confirmation of his "great nominee". Senate Republic...

Kavanaugh gets the votes to survive Supreme Court fight

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska . With Indiana's Joe Donnelly and North Dakota's Heidi Heitkamp having announced that they are definite "no" votes, Manchin remains...

Justice Kavanaugh tainted by bruising battle: Democratic senator

Kavanaugh forcefully and tearfully denied the accusations in a fiery opening statement and was openly hostile toward Democrats as they questioned him about the ...

Police probe possible mob hit

EMS responded and he was pronounced deceased at the scene. Sources tell CBS2 a man linked to the Bonanno crime family was shot dead at a McDonald's drive-thru...

Melania Trump Faces Scrutiny for Hat Choice While Visiting Kenya

But when asked if she believed Dr. Ford , she said: "I will move on that". "Have you ever told him to put his phone down?", asked one reporter. She la...

Scotland's Sturgeon promises independence plan once UK Brexit deal known

Asked again whether SNP MPs would back a second referendum, she replied: "I would expect SNP MPs to vote for that, if that comes to a vote in the House of Commo...

Brazil's Bolsonaro widens lead but tied with Haddad for run-off: polls

Among those attending the debate are Fernando Haddad (Worker's Party - PT), Alvaro Dias (Podemos), Ciro Gomes (Democratic Labour Party - PDT), Geraldo Alckmin...

Japan to skip South Korea naval event over flag row

The cancellation comes amid a dispute over Japan's plan to fly the "Rising Sun" flag - a white flag depicting a red disc with 16 rays - which has been an ensign...

Melania Trump Visits Kenya

Mrs Trump flew into Kenya on Thursday evening, after visits to Malawi and Ghana. First lady Melania Trump walks with singing children as she visits the Ne...

Conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed After Heated National Debate

Even as Kavanaugh took his oath of office Saturday evening in a quiet private ceremony, not long after the narrowest Senate confirmation in almost a century and...

Wife of missing Interpol chief says received knife emoji

Meng, who is also a vice minister of public security in China, had been reported missing after traveling from France , where Interpol is based, to China, and h...

Lockdown lifted at Appoquinimink schools

The school went into lockdown immediately. Police are investigating alleged threats that prompted three high schools in the Halifax area to be placed in hold ...

Atiku overtakes Tambuwal at PDP presidential primaries

He described the convention as "a landmark event". Others are Gombe state Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo; former Kano state Governor Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso; and...

Noble deeds go unnoticed by Nobel committee

Ms Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State in Iraq. Berit Reiss-Andersen, the Nobel committee chair, s...

Palestinian kills two Israelis in West Bank shooting: army

A military spokesman, in a conference call with foreign journalists several hours after the incident, said the man and one of the women had died of their wounds...

Authorities: 20 dead after limousine crash in upstate New York

Daily Gazette photos of the scene show what appears to be a white limousine down a small ravine off the road, near the Apple Barrel Country Store. Multiple em...

Hollywood reacts to Brett Kavanaugh's U.S. Supreme Court confirmation

Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in Saturday as US Supreme Court justice following the closest Senate confirmation vote in more than a century, marking a major win ...

5000 believed missing in two hard-hit Indonesian quake zones

The South African embassy in Indonesia says the local army has taken the lead in efforts to extract bodies that remain trapped under rubble after a 7.5 magnit...