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Multiple people were killed in a workplace shooting in Orlando, Florida, the Orange County Sheriff's Office said, adding that the situation had stabilised. The shooting happened early on Monday morning in the east of the city, the Orlando Sentinel newspaper reports. It comes a week before...

United States President, Donald Trump may face impeachment process following fresh revelation that he asked James Comey to end the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn. A request documented in a memo written by the former FBI director, according to sources familiar...

The United States launched a military strike Friday morning local time on a Syrian government target, in retaliation to the chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier in the week. The attack is coming on the order of President Donald Trump without congressional approval. Though, the US...

Oil price surged more than 2 percent to a one-month high on Friday after the United States launched dozens of cruise missiles at an airbase in Syria, with prices later dropping back as there seemed no immediate threat to supplies. After tepid trading before the attack, Brent crude futures LCOc1...

The United States launched a military strike Friday morning local time on a Syrian government target, in retaliation to the chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier in the week. President Donald Trump's orders, US warships launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian government airbase...

Donald Trump walked out of a televised executive order signing ceremony without approving the directives after being asked about a sacked aide. The US President was speaking at a podium in the Oval Office, with a folder containing the official documents executive orders and a pen laid on the...

United Airlines incurred social media outrage after barring two teenage girls wearing leggings from boarding its flight from Denver in Colorado to Minneapolis on Sunday. Officials said the teenagers did not meet a dress code for special pass travelers, stirring a furore on social media. The...

Donald Trump suffered a major legislative reversal on Friday as Republicans were forced to pull their repeal of the Affordable Care Act from the House floor. President Trump while speaking afterward in the Oval Office, blamed Democrats for the failure of a bill to repeal the signature...

Banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller has died at the age of 101. The former-presidential adviser died of congenital heart failure on Monday, a family spokesperson said. Fraser Seitel, a spokesperson for the family, said Mr Rockefeller died peacefully in his sleep at his home in...

US President Donald Trump has met German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time. Trump during press conference after the meeting suggested that both he and German Chancellor Merkel were tapped by the Obama administration.

Security breach reported at White House as an intruder carrying a backpack entered the grounds and was arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents at an entrance near the president's residence, CNN reported on Saturday morning, citing an unnamed source. President Donald Trump, who was in the White...

America's witches are more optimistic and casting spell on Donald Trump to see the White House before his four years mandate. BBC reported that at the stroke of midnight on Friday, followers of witchcraft across the US performed a mass spell designed to remove the president from office. A...

Immediate past President of the United States, Barack Obama Wednesday shared a tweet to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. Obama appreciated his wife, Michelle who he has been with for 28 years. “Happy Valentine’s Day, Michelle Obama! Almost 28 years with you, but it always feels new,” he said

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday suffered a legal blow when a federal appeals court refused to reinstate a temporary travel ban he had ordered on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the...

Uber Technologies Inc. chief executive Travis Kalanick stepped down from a position on President Donald Trump’s economic advisory council Thursday, saying his participation was being misinterpreted as an endorsement of Trump. This is coming after online outcry among protesters launched the...

Donald Trump has put Iran "on notice" over a ballistic missile test that could be in contravention of a UN resolution. Mr Trump said Tehran should have been "thankful" for the nuclear deal struck with the US and other world powers in 2015 as the country was on "its last legs". "Iran has been...

President Donald Trump said he does not care what people call his recent order restricting people from seven Muslim countries from entering the US. The president made this tweet following the worldwide condemnation that followed his recent order. Trump in his tweet said: "Everybody is arguing...

The White House said on Monday that President Trump would leave in place a 2014 Obama administration order that created new workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. The Obama had ordered banned companies that do federal work from discriminating against gay...

President Donald Trump has given reasons why he expedited action on the immigration ban imposed on some countries. He stated this in a serious of tweets Monday afternoon. He said: “If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the "bad" would rush into our country during that week. A...

A petition demanding Britain cancel a planned state visit by US President Donald Trump passed one million signatures on Monday, following outrage over his travel ban on mainly Muslim countries. “Donald Trump’s well documented misogyny and vulgarity disqualifies him from being received by Her...