Judges struggle over Trump bid to block testimony sought by House
U.S. appeals court judges on Friday appeared skeptical about broad legal arguments by President Donald Trump’s administration seeking to block a former White House lawyer...
Oil prices jump after U.S. air strike kills top Iranian commander
Oil prices jumped to the highest level in more than three months on Friday after the U.S. killed a top Iranian military commander in Iraq,...
U.S. says it disrupted ‘imminent attack’ by killing Iran commander
Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent military commander and the architect of its...
Soleimani was plotting coup in Iraq: U.S. Senator Rubio
U.S. Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Friday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to kill top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, saying on Twitter that the military...
Wall Street slips from record highs after U.S. kills top Iranian commander
Wall Street’s major indexes fell from record highs on Friday after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed a top Iranian commander, sharply escalating geopolitical...
Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric tells all parties to practice restraint
Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani condemned a U.S. air strike on Baghdad airport via a spokesperson on Friday, that killed Iranian Quds...
Sum it up! U.S. linguists to pick ‘Word of the Decade’
Leading linguists gather on Friday to decide whether Americans over the past decade were most affected by movements to end racial or sexual violence, cultivate...
Egypt shuts two Mediterranean ports due to bad weather
Egypt on Friday closed the harbors of two of its Mediterranean ports, Alexandria and Dekheila, due to bad weather, the Alexandria Port Authority said....
‘Weirdos and misfits’ wanted to help reshape Britain’s civil service
Dominic Cummings, the senior adviser to Boris Johnson who plotted Brexit and steered his boss to last month’s election triumph, is on the lookout for...
French police shoot dead man near Paris after fatal stabbing
French police shot dead a man near Paris on Friday after he went on the rampage with a knife in a park, killing one person...
