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The very idea, put forward by a handful of Republican lawmakers in a Wednesday letter nominating US president Donald Trump for the esteemed award, is enough to make his American and international detractors cringe.

The Senate voted 29-17 to pass the House of Representatives-approved bill, according to the legislature's online voting tallies. The bill now goes to Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, an abortion opponent, who has not said publicly whether she will sign i...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders disputed the doctor's characterisation of the episode, calling the incident a 'standard operating procedure' for all new Presidents.

Ross said Trump was ready to impose tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports and to further punish Beijing over its intellectual property practices under so-called Section 232 and Section 301 trade investigations.

Authorities said 27-year-old Star Perez was with her husband celebrating a city festival called Fiesta on Saturday when she complained he was ogling others.

Varadkar was born in Ireland to a Mumbai-born father and Irish mother. In June, 2017, he became Ireland's first Indian-origin 'Taoiseach' or prime minister.

Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said another seven children were wounded in Sunday's explosion. He said the mortar round had been fired by insurgents the night before but failed to explode.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touched down in Riyadh shortly after Tehran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen fired missiles across the kingdom's border.

Cosby, 80, best known as the lovable father from the 1980s TV hit "The Cosby Show," faces up to 10 years in prison for each of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand, 45, following a three-week trial at the Montgomery County c...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the sole witness at the hearing on the Justice Department's proposed 2019 budget, where Democrats repeatedly drew the spotlight to the Russia probe.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks with Trump in Washington later this week. Senior Iranian officials have said repeatedly that Iran's ballistic missile program is not up for negotiation.

Inuka, a 27-year-old animal who grappled with challenges ranging from arthritis to dental problems and ear infections, carried until his last days a green tinge in his fur blamed on algae growth.

Millicent Fawcett's statue took its place among monuments to the likes of Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Abraham Lincoln.

Francis has in the past treated Rome's homeless to private tours of the Vatican Museums and a day at the circus as his guest.

A Belgian court found Salah Abdeslam guilty of terrorism-related attempted murder in connection with a shootout preceding the bombings in Brussels that left 32 dead and hundreds injured in March, 2016.

Contrary to what is depicted in Hollywood’s spy blockbusters, much of the intelligence work could be very boring. This is the bit which could majorly be handed over to Artificial Intelligence.