US & Canada

US President Donald Trump’s businesses reported losses of $1.17 billion from 1985 to 1994, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing information from tax documents from those years. It appears Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual US taxpayer year after year, the Times reports, according to the …

US President Donald Trump has expressed his full support for Israel after another escalation in the conflict when Gaza Islamic Jihadist launched hundreds of rockets and IDF responded with massive air strikes. “These terrorist acts against Israel will bring you nothing but more misery,” Trump tweeted, advising the Gazan people …

Cocaine deaths have been rising in the United States, amid the nation’s deadliest drug overdose epidemic, US health officials have said in a new report. After several years of decline, overdose deaths involving cocaine began rising around 2012 and they jumped by more than a third between 2016 and 2017, …

A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the U.S. outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base there during a thunderstorm, injuring 21 people. There were no reports of fatalities or …

  The US Senate has failed to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a congressional resolution demanding an end to American military support for the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen, a country plagued by more than four years of a devastating conflict. The vote on Thursday was 53 to …

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday accused Attorney General William Barr of committing a crime by lying “We saw Barr commit a crime when he answered your question,” Pelosi told Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) during a private caucus meeting Thursday morning, according to two sources present for the gathering.to Congress, blasting …

The US military has reported a major spike in sexual assaults despite years of efforts to address the problem. Figures show 20,500 instances of unwanted sexual contact occurred in 2018, up from 14,900 in 2016 which is the last time a survey was conducted. Alcohol was involved in one third …

US President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter is hurting America’s standing in the world, say the majority of voters in a new poll. Nearly half of voters in the Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday also linked Trump’s incessant tweeting to possible failure in the 2020 campaign. Forty-six percent of voters …

US President Donald Trump, three of his children, and the Trump Organization filed a federal lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One to block them from complying with federal subpoenas investigating his financial dealings. The federal lawsuit was filed in the US District Court’s Southern District of New York. It …

The U.S. military said on Monday it would send about 320 Defense Department personnel to the border with Mexico in roles that would increasingly put them in contact with migrants, including driving them in vehicles and “monitoring” their welfare. The Pentagon’s statement said the latest deployment would alone cost about …

A gunman opened fire at a synagogue in California on Saturday, killing one woman and wounding three other people, police said. A 19-year-old man named as John Earnest was arrested after the attack, in Poway, north of the city of San Diego. The synagogue had been hosting a Passover celebration …

Iraq has summoned the envoys of Bahrain and the United States to protest their insulting and meddlesome comments about the Arab state’s domestic affairs and relations with neighboring Iran. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmad al-Sahaf said on Saturday night that Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali al-Hakim had issued the order to summon …

A US combat veteran who fought in the war against Iraq will be charged with a hate crime after he deliberately drove into a group of pedestrians because he thought some of the people were Muslim, according to authorities. Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, faces eight counts of attempted murder for …

U.S. economic growth accelerated in the first quarter, but the burst in growth was driven by a smaller trade deficit and the largest accumulation of unsold merchandise since 2015, temporary boosters that are seen weighing on the economy later this year. The surge in growth reported by the Commerce Department …

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, who is a former CIA director, has admitted to an audience that the American spy agency trains employees to “lie, cheat and steal.” “I was a CIA director, we lied, we cheated we stole… like, we had entire training courses. It reminds you of …

Donald Trump has called on the US, Russia, and China to reduce their nuclear arsenals amid reports that his administration is planning to propose a landmark arms control deal with Beijing and Moscow. In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, the US president said that he welcomed Russia’s …

More than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country’s resources to the limit. More than half of the roughly 1,300 migrants later returned to the Siglo …

Americans are among the most stressed and worried people in the world, with negative emotions in the US reaching the highest level in a decade, according to a new survey. About 55 percent of US adults said they had experienced stress during “a lot of the day” prior, compared with …

Former US Vice-President Joe Biden has declared a presidential bid, putting an end to months of speculation. In a video announcement, Mr. Biden argued that the “core values of the nation… our very democracy, everything that has made America America, is at stake”. The 76-year-old enters a crowded race for …

US President Donald Trump has threatened to send more armed troops to the southern border with Mexico after Mexican soldiers confronted US personnel and disarmed at least one of them on the American side of the border. “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a …