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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper fired the Navy’s top civilian on Sunday over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL who was convicted of battlefield misconduct in Iraq and later won the support of President Donald Trump. Esper also determined that the sailor in question, Special Operations Chief …

The U.S. Navy Secretary said on Saturday he did not threaten to resign amid a disagreement with President Donald Trump over whether a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers who may oust him from the elite force. “There seem to be rumors out there …

As Thanksgiving week starts, a record number of travelers will be dealing with three storms nationwide that will add to the holiday stress. One storm will lash the East and will affect travel through Sunday, another one will batter the Midwest on Tuesday and a third one will move through …

Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari says the United States has been occupying the country’s oil fields and looting its resources as the UN remains silent on Washington’s act of theft. “The US occupies Syrian oil wells and plunders the Syrians’ revenues in the shadow of the UN Security Council’s silence,” …

Democrats in the US House of Representatives say they are actively preparing for the next step in their eight-week-old impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump, saying they are undeterred by the White House preventing first-hand witnesses from testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. Democratic Party lawmakers in the lower chamber …

US President Donald Trump wants an impeachment trial to go forward in the U.S. Senate because he would receive due process there and he expects Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden would be among the witnesses, a White House spokesman said on Thursday. “President Trump wants to have a trial in …

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday there was clear evidence that Donald Trump used his office for his own personal gain and undermined national security as lawmakers continue to investigate the Republican president. Speaking at a regular weekly news conference, Pelosi said it was up to the House …

A U.S. federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to the scheduled executions next month of four inmates, saying that President Donald Trump’s administration lacked legal authorization to use its intended lethal-injection drug. The ruling, late on Wednesday by District Judge Tanya Chutkan, effectively blocks the Justice Department’s attempt to …

While the specter of school shootings looms darkly in the minds of American parents who remember massacres in Newtown, Connecticut; Parkland, Florida, and around the country, the group’s review of shootings from 2009 through 2018 found far more children are killed in their own homes. “These are not random acts …

US President Donald Trump wants Apple CEO Tim Cook to “get involved” in developing 5G across the US in an apparent bid by Washington to push against the “threat” of Chinese tech giants. Trump tweeted on Thursday morning that he had asked Cook about becoming involved with 5G during his …

US Ambassador to European Union Gordon Sondland told House impeachment investigators Wednesday that Rudy Giuliani had pushed a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine that he had to go along with because it’s what President Donald Trump wanted. “Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the United States, …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that his country no longer considers Israeli settlements “inconsistent with international law” in a shift in foreign policy. The statement puts the United States in contradiction with the broader group of countries as well as UN Security Council resolutions, and comes at …

Two chemistry professors face a strange charge of making a drug in a Arkansas state laboratory, the Washington Post reported. Professor Terry David Batman, 45, and Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, who are studying chemistry at Arkansas’s Henderson State University, were arrested last Friday, the source said. He said they face …

Russia intends to start deliveries of nearly two dozen Su-35E air superiority fighter planes to Egypt between 2020-2021 in a deal worth the equivalent of over $2 billion. US officials have repeatedly warned that the delliveries could lead to sanctions against Cairo. Egypt’s decision to purchase Russian-made fighter aircraft may …

The House began public hearings in the impeachment probe against the president last week, with Trump’s opponents accusing him of illegally pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate potential corruption by the son of former Vice President Joe Biden during his employment with a Ukrainian energy company. President Donald Trump …

Two Cessna Citation planes collided last Friday at San Antonio International Airport. According to FlightOne, one of the planes had been suspended at the airport since November 5 after arriving from New Orleans, when the second aircraft of the same model accidentally crashed into it.Both planes were on the ground …

A teenage boy who killed two classmates and wounded three others at a southern California high school on his birthday before shooting himself in the head died on Friday of his wounds in hospital, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office said. “Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, 16, a Junior at Saugus High …

The phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart at the center of Congress’ impeachment investigation was “inappropriate,” an aide to Vice President Mike Pence told lawmakers, according to a transcript released on Saturday. Jennifer Williams, a foreign policy aide to Pence who was listening to the …

President Donald Trump on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court ruling directing an accounting firm to hand over his financial records to a Democratic-led congressional panel, setting up a major clash between branches of government. Trump turned to the justices after the U.S. Court of …

Former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch opened the second day of Trump impeachment hearings Friday declaring that her abrupt removal by President Donald Trump’s administration played into the hands of “shady interests the world over” with dangerous intentions toward the United States. Yovanovitch told the House Intelligence Committee of a …