year-old Laquan McDonald triggered months of protests in Chicago (AFP Photo/Joshua Lott)/ Washington (AFP) - A white former Chicago police officer was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison on Friday for fatally shooting a black teenager in 2014, an incident that triggered months of protests ...
moving storm is expected to blanket large parts of the country with significant amounts of snow into Sunday. The storm that's bearing down on parts of the Midwest and Northeast is expected to deliver snow accumulations that will be the largest snowfall of the season in some places. "The snow is ...
The fate of Canadians detained in China, including former diplomat Michael Kovrig, are a top issue in Ottawa's ties with Beijing (AFP Photo/Julie DAVID DE LOSSY)/ Canada's envoy to Beijing on Thursday threw cold water on long-sought free trade between the two nations as an ugly diplomat spat ...
A jogger makes her way through snow at the Washington Monument following a winter storm, Jan. 14, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo/ MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A major winter storm was expected to clobber a large swath of the northern United States with heavy snow, gusty winds and frigid ...
An officer guards the US embassy in Montenegro after an attack in February 2018 travelled to Iraq and Syria. (AFP Photo/SAVO PRELEVIC )/ Washington (AFP) - The US State Department said Thursday it had found money to bring back full staff to ensure the smooth running of US foreign policy despite ...
Long lines are seen at a TSA security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport amid the partial federal government shutdown, in Atlanta/ Long lines are seen at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International ...
- Special Counsel Robert Mueller took the rare step of denying a media report about his Russia investigation, rejecting a story by BuzzFeed News saying that President Donald Trump instructed his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. “BuzzFeed’s description of specific ...
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi receives praise for trying to delay the State of the Union, while President Trump is bashed for postponing Pelosi's overseas trip; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
- China has offered to go on a six-year buying spree to ramp up imports from the U.S., in a move that would reconfigure the relationship between the world’s two largest economies, according to officials familiar with the negotiations. By increasing goods imports from the U.S. by a combined value ...
An American businessman who died in a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel in Nairobi had missed by only minutes being at his office in the World Trade Center on 9/11, according to his father. Jason Spindler of Houston was among 21 people killed Tuesday when gunmen attacked the DustitD2 complex in ...
