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Comey compares Trump to mob boss, Trump cries "slime ball" 13 Apr 2018 - 07:51 pm

WASHINGTON: Firing back at a sharply critical book by former FBI director James Comey, President Donald Trump blasted him Friday as an "untruthful...

Brazil's leftists rename themselves 'Lula' 12 Apr 2018 - 05:00 pm

Brasília: If Brazil's right-wing politicians thought they'd seen the last of Lula with his imprisonment, they couldn't have reckoned on running into more...

Brazil's Lula has TV in prison, but prefers to read: reports 11 Apr 2018 - 08:38 pm

Rio de Janeiro: Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva could be watching television and sunbathing but so far prefers staying in his...

Trump seethes over FBI raid, ponders firing those he blames 11 Apr 2018 - 11:01 am

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was so incensed by the FBI's raid of his personal attorney's office and hotel room that he's privately pondered...

US carrier sails in disputed sea as China shows own force 10 Apr 2018 - 10:58 pm

ABOARD THE USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT, South China: As fighter jets streaked overhead, a U.S. aircraft carrier sailed through the disputed South China Sea...

Girls jump, drop from balcony to escape dance studio fire 10 Apr 2018 - 08:03 pm

EDGEWATER, N.J.: More than a dozen girls fled a second-story dance studio onto a balcony as a roaring fire engulfed their building, some...

Twitter account of man accused of deadly hoax threatens swat 10 Apr 2018 - 07:58 pm

WICHITA, Kan.: A Twitter handle associated with a man who's in jail on accusations that he made a hoax emergency call that led...

Trump cancels first Latin America trip to handle Syria response: WHouse 10 Apr 2018 - 04:14 pm

Washington: The White House on Tuesday abruptly announced the cancellation of US President Donald Trump's first trip to Latin America, scheduled for later...

Toxic levels of arsenic in Amazon basin well water: study 10 Apr 2018 - 02:58 pm

Vienna: Shallow wells dug for drinking water in the Amazon basin in order to avoid polluted rivers contain up to 70 times the...

Workers' radiation exposure halts nuke plant demolition 08 Apr 2018 - 07:07 pm

SPOKANE, Wash.: Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are...

Brazil's Lula spends first day of 12-year prison sentence 08 Apr 2018 - 08:53 am

Curitiba, Brazil: Leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent Sunday as Brazil's first ex-president to be imprisoned for a common crime --...

Man, 67, killed in raging fire at Trump Tower in New York 08 Apr 2018 - 07:30 am

NEW YORK, A raging fire that tore through a 50th-floor apartment at Trump Tower killed a man inside and sent flames and thick,...

Canada police say 14 dead after hockey bus crash 07 Apr 2018 - 04:01 pm

NIPAWIN, Saskatchewan: Canadian police said early Saturday 14 people were killed and 14 people were injured after a truck collided with a bus...

Texas sends 250 National Guard troops to Mexico border 07 Apr 2018 - 11:17 am

The Texas National Guard has begun deploying troops to help secure the state's southern border with Mexico as President Donald Trump has been...

Brazil's defiant Lula expected to surrender to police Saturday 07 Apr 2018 - 10:14 am

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil: Leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spent the night holed up inside the headquarters of a...

Canada police say truck collided with hockey bus, fatalities 07 Apr 2018 - 07:56 am

NIPAWIN, Saskatchewan: A crash between a transport truck and a bus carrying a junior hockey team in Western Canada left multiple people dead...

Brazil's first black chief justice joins party to run for president 07 Apr 2018 - 07:37 am

BRASILIA: Former chief justice and the first black member of Brazil's Supreme Court, Joaquim Barbosa, joined the center-left Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) late...

Americans becoming more politically active: poll 06 Apr 2018 - 08:37 pm

Washington: Driven mainly by opposition to President Donald Trump, Americans have become increasingly politically active over the past two years, according to a...