US & Canada

US President Donald Trump says that the United States will have a major trade agreement with Brexit Britain. Trump made the remarks in a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday a few hours after the premier had asked the US president to lower trade barriers. In a …

An 8-year-old girl was killed and three other people were injured in a shooting near a preseason high school football event Friday night in St. Louis, police said. Investigators are looking for whoever fired the shots. The girl is the 12th child or teenager killed by gunfire in the Missouri …

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he has ordered American companies to exit China after Beijing unveiled retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods, throwing a new twist into the bitter trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Trump said on Twitter he will issue a response …

American billionaire industrialist David Koch, a major financier of political candidates who supported gay rights, same-sex marriage, and stem-cell research, has died at age 79, his brother has announced. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” Charles Koch said in a statement …

Twenty-seven people have been injured in a light rail train incident late Thursday night in Sacramento, the Sacramento Fire Department said. There were no life-threatening injuries and no fatalities associated with the incident, but 13 people have been transported to two local hospitals, said Capt. Keith Wade during a press …

Donald Trump has promoted a claim that Jewish people in Israel love him like he is the “king” of the country and “the second coming of God”. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the …

New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Daniel Pantaleo has been fired in light of the 2014 incident in which he killed Eric Garner after using an illegal chokehold on him during an arrest, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said during a press conference. “In this case, the unintended consequence of Mr. …

Workers ordered not to criticize the president. Workers at a Royal Dutch Shell plant in Pennsylvania were forced to choose between attending a speech by Donald Trump or earning less than their coworkers who did. Attendance was optional, but contract workers who chose not to stand in the crowd would …

Police have arrested 13 people on a range of charges, including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and unlawful use of a weapon, after right-wing demonstrators squared off with Antifa counter-protesters in Portland, Oregon. Speaking at a press conference in the wake of the protests in Portland, which were marred by sporadic …

Sitting under an olive tree in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Muftia Tlaib scoffs at the attention she has recently received from the president of the United States. “May God ruin him,” she says. Tlaib is the grandmother of U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, at the center of an affair that has …

5 questions about Donald Trump’s interest in buying Greenland, answered. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in recent weeks in buying Greenland. That is not a sentence from an Onion article, although you could be forgiven if you made that mistake. This President, the most unorthodox resident of …

Police officers and a bomb squad have been deployed to inspect three suspicious packages found at a busy subway station in New York City. The site was evacuated and swarmed by police and emergency personnel during the brief bomb scare. The NYPD’s counter-terrorism division released photographs of the first two …

Greenland on Friday rejected the idea that it might be on sale, after reports that US President Donald Trump had discussed with his advisors in particular the idea of ​​buying the world’s largest island “We are open to trade, but we are not for sale,” Greenland Foreign Minister Annie Lone …

Israel will bar a visit by two of its sharpest critics in the U.S. Congress, Democrats Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who planned to tour the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the country’s deputy foreign minister said on Thursday. “The decision has been made, the decision is not to …

A former Blackwater security guard has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 10 men, two women, and two boys, aged 9 and 11, dead. Federal Judge Royce Lamberth delivered the sentence despite pleas for leniency from …

Many African Americans have difficulty accumulating savings in part because they lack access to mainstream financial services like banking, a new study on the contributing factors to the U.S. racial wealth gap by McKinsey & Co found on Tuesday. Many minorities in the United States depend on more expensive financial …

US National Security Adviser John Bolton has said the United States “enthusiastically” supports a no-deal Brexit. The European Union’s French chief negotiator for Brexit Michel Barnier had warned Britain if it wanted to avoid a no-deal Brexit then London needed to stick to the divorce agreement signed with Brussels. “If …

Financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges in New York, a former law enforcement official said Saturday. He was found dead in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center Saturday morning, according to the officials, who were briefed on the matter but spoke on condition …

An Arizona man came back home from a town council meeting an internet sensation, after a video of his hysterical laughter in reaction to a crowd of angry Trump supporters went viral online. Thousands shared the video or animated images of the man with the hashtag #GreenShirtGuy, who called him …

US President Donald Trump said that, while talks are progressing with Beijing, no deal has been reached for now, as the two countries attempt to resolve an ongoing trade dispute. The president told reporters on Friday that he would like to see more movement in the trade talks, but that …