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GOP Leader: House won't attach Harvey relief to debt ceiling bill

The plan appears to have the backing of Republican leaders, but rank-and-file members on Tuesday were less supportive. However, Mnuchin has pressed multiple tim...

'Everyone's freaking out': Florida Keys evacuate ahead of Hurricane Irma

National Hurricane Center . Television footage of the Franco-Dutch island of Saint Martin showed a damaged marina with boats tossed into piles, submerged st...

House passes $7.9bn Harvey aid bill

First up: Speeding relief aid to Texas and Louisiana in the wake of the Harvey storm. This puts at risk not just the relief package but also about 100 million...

Vladimir Putin says progress on North Korea impossible without dialogue

First on the itinerary for the four-months-old South Korean president in his first visit to Russia as head of state: An exclusive one-on-one with Russian Pres...

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Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in MAT. Mattel's quarterly revenue was up 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. Commonwealth of...

NY AG files lawsuit challenging Trump's move to end DACA

A little over a day later, after a new lawsuit was filed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman , it appear their progressive counterparts just...

New ACT scores show huge achievement gaps

In each of those jurisdictions, slightly fewer than a third of graduates took the ACT, well below the national rate. The national average was 21. "Before now,...

Another Journalist Attacked By Bike-Borne Assailants, This Time In Bihar

Soon after the incident, police said the shooters belong to Mishra's village. One accused has been arrested. Arwal Superintendent of Police Dilip Kumar Mi...

Grenade attack by terrorists in Srinagar's Jahangir Chowk; 1 dead, 14 injured

The injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment and the area has been cordoned off, police said. The attack injured four civilians, one of which to succ...

President Trump returning to Texas to meet with 'families' affected by Harvey

The aftermath has been devastating for the people of Houston and southern Texas. Federal damage estimates will also include the vast cost of business interr...

Abu Sayyaf killed, 5 soldiers wounded in Sulu clash

Sobejana said the two Indonesian fishermen were abducted aboard a Malaysian-registered boat in November previous year in waters near Malaysia's eastern state of...

Trump discusses cutting North Korea's nuke capabilities with Chinese president

That test, along with a series of missile launches, showed Pyongyang was close to achieving its goal of developing a powerful nuclear weapon that could reach ...

Trump Is 'Not My Bride,' Putin Says

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not receive an invitation for the summit devoted to the reform of the United Nations, Putin's aide Yury Ushakov said. "We a...

Trump Strikes a Three-Month Debt Ceiling Deal … With Democrats

Trump boasted of assaulting women? This also comes a day after the Trump administration announced that it was ending the 2012 program created by Obama tha...

Putin warns of "global catastrophe" over North Korea missile tests

North Korea on Sunday triggered global alarm when it detonated what it described as a hydrogen bomb designed for a long-range missile, which was followed by ...

Identify Rohingyas living illegally, they may be terror threat: Centre asks states

So we have instructed all state governments to constitute task force to identify Rohingyas and start the process of deporting them. Various human rights organis...

China Offers Support for UN Efforts on N. Korea Nuclear Issue

He also said China is taking a wait-and-see approach with regard to new United Nations Security Council sanctions against Kim Jong-un's regime. The feud, which ...

Putin warns of global catastrophe over proposed sanctions on N'Korea

When asked if Russia would support new sanctions against North Korea after it carried out a nuclear bomb test on Sunday, Peskov said: "The Russian Federation ...

Pyongyang says ready to send 'more gift packages' to US

Earlier on Wednesday, Mattis spoke with an official of another regional allied state, South Korean counterpart Song Young-moo in a phone conversation that any t...

Nuclear Experts Doubt Credibility of N. Korea's Bomb Claim

Commercial satellite imagery obtained the day after the test "appears to show numerous landslides throughout the Punggye-ri nuclear test site and beyond", accor...

Vladimir Putin calls for talks with North Korea

South Korea's Moon and Russia's Putin met on the sidelines of the economic summit Wednesday, where Moon tried to persuade his counterpart to agree to banning o...

Putin warns of 'global catastrophe' in North Korea impasse

Putin said Russian Federation "condemns" North Korea's actions as "provocative". Putin's public remarks on the deepening diplomatic spat were his first since ...

Leicester ace Vardy: No Arsenal regrets. Look at their downfall now!

He said: "It wasn't the Premier League was it?" He's already discussed the possibility of moving to the U.S. or China later on his career, but he'd also enterta...

Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:FTR) Stake Maintained by CIBC Asset Management Inc

Zurcher Kantonalbank (Zurich Cantonalbank) reported 1.23M shares. The value of the investment in FTR increased from $33,000 to $19,000,000 increasing 57,475.8...

Germany Welcomes Russia's Call for UN Ukraine Peacekeepers

Ukraine said it was "prepared to work on the issue" and dispatched its UN delegation to consult with the UN Security Council. "We do not agree that we should be...

Turnbull, Trump to discuss North Korea

Trump, in his separate phone calls to Theresa May and Malcolm Turnbull yesterday, ruled out any talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme, it ...

Irma triggers massive destruction in Barbuda; at least 1 killed, officials say

Reports say the small island of Barbuda is said to be "barely habitable" as officials have warned that St Martin is nearly destroyed, and the death toll is li...

Korea nuclear test 10 times more powerful than Hiroshima: Japan

The United States sold arms worth almost $5 billion to South Korea between 2010 and 2016, according to an analysis by the Stockholm International Peace Rese...

Northern Ireland: UK shuns Republic's shared rule bid

It will require both sides to be flexible and creative and what I see in the UK's paper on Ireland and Northern Ireland worries me. "But we are not there yet"...

China's military practises for 'surprise attack' over sea near Korea

A day later, Kim Jong-un was quoted in the state-run media as saying that the launch was a "meaningful prelude to containing" the US Pacific territory of Guam...