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At least 23 people are known to have died in Lee County, some of them children, with the youngest believed to have been six years old. There are fears that the death toll will rise. Dozens of people were hurt. The sheriff of Lee County, Jay Jones, told local media …

Three of the rarest known US paper bills in existence, dating back to the 19th century, are expected to fetch up to $8 million when they are auctioned in Baltimore next week. The remarkable set includes two $1,000 bills — one from 1869 and another from 1891 — and a …

At his first rally for the US 2020 presidential bid, Senator Bernie Sanders promised to defeat Donald Trump, calling him “the most dangerous president in modern American history,” in New York City on Saturday, March 2. Back to his native neighborhood, Sanders was cheered by a crowd at Brooklyn College, …

Quebec’s appeals court on Friday upheld a historic ruling ordering three tobacco firms to pay Can$15.5 billion (US$11.6 billion) to smokers in the Canadian province who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with smoking. Imperial Tobacco Canada, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, Rothmans Benson & …

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his chief of staff in May to grant his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance, the New York Times reported on Thursday. It said senior administration officials were troubled by the decision, which prompted then White House Chief of Staff John Kelly …

Now, he is just back from a Hanoi summit with North Korea that collapsed and the cloud has grown darker. While Trump’s much-hyped meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un broke up in disagreement over sanctions linked to Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, testimony from his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who …

The US formally suspended tariffs rises on £200bn of Chinese goods but hopes of resolving a trade war between the two nations faded, sending global stock markets fell for the third straight day on Thursday. US Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer pushed back higher import duties which had been due …

Canada’s main opposition party has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down following allegations of unethical conduct by his officials. Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer called on Trudeau to resign on Wednesday after a former justice minister claimed that Canadian government officials had inappropriately pressured her to help …

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, is giving dramatic testimony before the House Oversight Committee and has told the congressional panel the president “is a racist, a conman and a cheat”. Cohen said: “I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump’s illicit acts rather than listening …

FBI special counsel Robert Mueller could hand in his report into allegations members of the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 US presidential election as early as next week, according to reports on Wednesday. Donald Trump’s former confidant, flamboyant political consultant Roger Stone, is also due to …

The majority of Americans disapprove of US President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to get funding for a border wall on the southern border, a poll shows. Only 39 percent of those taking part in a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll threw support behind the Republican president’s initiative to battle illegal …

President Donald Trump has warned the Venezuelan military not to block tonnes of humanitarian aid due to arrive in the country on Saturday, threatening the soldiers with grave consequences for remaining loyal to President Nicolas Maduro. “Today I have a message for every official who is keeping Maduro in place,” …

A top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned unexpectedly on Monday amid allegations Trudeau’s office had pressured the former justice minister to help construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid criminal prosecution. Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s principal private secretary and a key architect of the Liberals’ 2015 election victory, said …

A US-led conference in Warsaw this week that was intended to isolate Iran has ended up isolating America instead — highlighting one of the central problems of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The two-day, hastily organized summit, which ended on Thursday, was billed as a Middle East security conference. But …

A man who was being fired from his job shot dead five people and injured several others at his workplace in the US state of Illinois, police say. The gunman was also killed during an exchange of fire with police officers. Five officers were shot and wounded. The shooting took …

Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. The Republican president’s move, circumventing Congress, seeks to make good on a 2016 presidential …

The Trump administration threatened on Monday to veto an effort in the US Congress to end US military support for the Saudi-led coalition in the war in Yemen, continuing a standoff with lawmakers over policy toward the kingdom. The administration said the resolution was inappropriate because US forces had provided …

Cabinet ministers now believe Theresa May is preparing to resign as British Prime Minister this summer so she can influence who succeeds her, The Sun newspaper reported on Monday. In January, British lawmakers rejected May’s original Brexit deal that set out the terms by which Britain would leave the European …

  US congressional talks over a border security deal have stalled, raising the chances of another government shutdown. Negotiators were hoping for a deal by Monday to give Congress time to pass legislation by Friday, when the federal funding agreement runs out. They remain divided on how many undocumented immigrants …