US & Canada

An American surveillance drone has crashed northwest of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, according to a report. The Iraqi Arabic-language Burath news agency cited informed sources on Friday saying that the drone, registered under the number “52187,” had probably crashed due to hacking or electronic jamming from an “unknown source.” …

US immigration authorities have arrested nearly 700 mostly Latino workers at seven food processing plants across the southern state of Mississippi, the largest workplace raid in at least a decade. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement on Wednesday that the agency detained about 680 people who …

A man killed four people during a stabbing rampage in Southern California before officers found his car parked outside a 7-Eleven convenience store and arrested him, authorities said. In addition to the people killed, the attacker left two wounded in multiple crime scenes in Garden Grove and Santa Ana, police …

An “active police event” is ongoing at the headquarters of USA Today in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, according to police. Law enforcement officers arrived at the newspaper’s headquarters around noon on Wednesday and began evacuating the scene. Videos shared on social media show lines of evacuees leaving the building and police …

Donald Trump is to visit the sites of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas amid warnings he will not be welcome. The attacks in El Paso, where Hispanic people appear to have been targeted, and Dayton left 31 people dead. Before leaving for Ohio, he said he was concerned about …

Crowds fled in horror in New York’s iconic Times Square after fears of gunshots. Eyewitness footage captured the moment that tourists and residents sprinted for their lives in abject panic. The alarm took place at approximately 10 pm local time Tuesday night in one of the city’s busiest intersections, just …

The apparent misspelling is merely the latest such social media gaffe coming from Trump’s social media presence. US President Donald Trump, who has often managed to amuse social media with his Twitter gaffes such as the infamous “covfefe”, has now upped his game further with one of his latest tweets …

The death toll from a mass shooting at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, increased to 22 after two more victims died in the hospital, police said. David Shimp, chief executive officer at Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso, said one patient died late Sunday night and another Monday morning. …

A gunman has shot and killed nine people and wounded 16 others at an arts and entertainment district in downtown Dayton, Ohio. The shooting happened early Sunday morning, authorities said, noting the suspect was killed by police. Just after 3 am, police asked residents to avoid the area known as …

  A shooting rampage at a crowded Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, is being investigated as a “hate crime”, authorities say. A gunman armed with a powerful assault-style rifle opened fire at the Cielo Vista Walmart store in the majority-Hispanic border city, killing at least 20 people and injuring …

US President Donald Trump has once again warned that he could win the Afghanistan war within days by just killing millions of people in the conflict-ridden country, in what experts warn is another sign of Trump’s willingness to use weapons of mass destruction. The warning came on Friday, as Trump …

A new governor has been sworn into office in Puerto Rico, bringing fresh controversy to the US territory. Pedro Pierluisi is the handpicked successor of Ricardo Rosselló, who resigned amid mass protests over a leaked chat in which he and top aides shared obscenity-laced messages. But Pierluisi’s term as governor …

US President Donald Trump has designated Brazil a so-called major non-NATO ally of the United States, a move that could potentially facilitate the expansion of Washington’s dominance over the Latin American country. “I hereby designate the Federative Republic of Brazil as a Major Non-NATO Ally of the United States for …

With the Washington Post stuck in a mud-slinging meme war with Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump, the capital’s paper of record has found itself on the receiving end of internet trolls’ meme-cannons. Confused? The sordid saga began Friday when the Post published an op-ed titled “Mitch McConnell is a …

Two hurricanes, one of them a Category 3, are moving toward the Hawaiian islands — one heading straight for the island chain and another track slightly south. Hurricane Erick, the larger of the storms, is not expected to make landfall but parts of Hawaii could see increased wind gusts and …

A shooting at a Mississippi Walmart left two people dead, an officer wounded and a community in shock. The gunfire broke out Tuesday morning at a store in Southaven, the third-largest city in Mississippi. Both the suspect and an officer who responded to the scene were shot and being treated …

Donald Trump signed the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund on Monday at the White House Rose Garden while reminding first responders that he was also in New York City at the time of the historic terror attacks. “I was down there also,” the president said to an audience of 60 …

A gunman kills at least three people at a California food festival on Sunday before being shot dead by police. Authorities say police are now hunting for a second person they believe was involved in the killings.

The US economy grew less than previously thought last year, missing President Donald Trump’s target of 3%. Revised official figures shows that GDP expanded by 2.5% during 2018. The figures also revealed that growth slowed during the second quarter as exports declined and companies invested less in their businesses. GDP …

US Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday accused Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of racism and responsibility for the escalation in recent years because it is a right-wing, racist-oriented government. Sanders stressed in an interview with Pod Save America،that “the approach of the US administration of Donald Trump pro-Israel,” which transferred the US …