Tillerson holds briefing in Saudi Arabia without US press Secretary of State Rex Tillerson briefed the media in Saudi Arabia on Sunday without members of the American press in attendance. Tillerson held the press conference with the Saudi foreign minister, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, but it appeared that only foreign […]
Protesting Notre Dame students walk out of Pence's commencement speech Some graduating seniors at the University of Notre Dame walked out of their own graduation ceremony to protest Vice President Pence when he began to deliver the commencement speech on Sunday morning. Pence was chosen to give the commencement address […]
FBI Investigating If Bowie State Univ. Student's Killing Is Hate Crime The FBI is helping to investigate the stabbing at the University of Maryland to determine whether it was a hate crime. Sean Christopher Urbanski, 22, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder as well as first-degree assault in […]
Notre Dame students walk out on Mike Pence during commencement speech A group of graduating seniors from the University of Notre Dame turned their backs on their own graduation ceremony in protest of Vice President Mike Pence, who gave their commencement address there on Sunday. The protests, which were organized […]
Suspect in Champs Elysees shooting under formal investigation A man believed to have been an accomplice of the shooter who killed a policeman on Paris' Champs Elysees in April was placed under a formal investigation and remanded in custody, a judicial source said on Saturday. His DNA was found on […]
New Russia probe leaks threaten to derail Trump's foreign trip U.S. President Donald Trump was hit on Friday by embarrassing leaks that a senior adviser was a "person of interest" in a probe of possible collusion with Russia during last year's election campaign and that Trump had boasted to Russian […]
Royal sister-in-law Pippa takes spotlight in star-studded British wedding May 20 Pippa Middleton, younger sister of Kate, Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, was married in a small English country church on Saturday surrounded by royals and celebrities but those hoping for a dash of Hollywood were left in the cold. The […]
Trump's trade rep brings America First policy to Asia-Pacific summit U.S. President Donald Trump's new trade representative held his first face-to-face meetings with some key partners on Saturday as the United States charts an "America First" policy that has upended the old global order and sparked fears of protectionism. Robert Lighthizer […]
After Rouhani re-election, expect hardliners to 'settle scores' Iranians yearning for detente abroad and greater freedoms at home have handed President Hassan Rouhani a second term, but the hardline forces he defeated in elections on Friday will remain defiantly opposed to his plans. Rouhani built his resounding win in Friday's […]
Iranians demanding change deliver emphatic victory for Rouhani Iranians yearning for more freedom at home and less isolation abroad have emphatically re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, throwing down a challenge to the conservative clergy that still holds ultimate sway. Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmanifazli announced Rouhani's victory on Saturday on state television. […]
