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Varadkar to meet European Union leaders at Brussels summit

Hours after arriving in Brussels to kick off the first day of the talks on Monday, UK Brexit Secretary David Davis agreed to settle the divorce terms before g...

Pelosi defends leadership following loss in Georgia special election

She's been under fire over the last couple days, with some of her own caucus members saying it's time for her to step down, and potential Democratic candidat...

Qatar Airways eyes 10% of American Airlines

Operations at Qatar Airways were disrupted after four Arab nations cut diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar this month in the worst diplomatic crisis in the ...

Huge stuffed cow saves 2-year-old boy after fall out window

Luckily, he was holding onto the cow, and that broke his fall. 'God save him. The cow helped'. The boy's great uncle, Luis Estrada , tells WCVB-TV that the...

Saudi Arabia's Beef With Qatar Reflects Long Simmering Tensions

Aya Batrawi , a Dubai-based correspondent for the Associated Press . Declare that it is cutting off ties with terrorist, sectarian and ideological organisati...

Russia fires missiles from Mediterranean at IS in Syria

Huge ISIS ammunition depot near the town of Aqerbat was destroyed by a precision strike. "As a result of the surprise mass missile strike, command points were...

Pentagon chief blasts N.Korea over USA student who died

Politicians renewed calls for the regime to release three USA citizens being held in the country. Trump said in a Tweet on Tuesday afternoon. Presiden...

Imagine there's no Brexit: EU boss channels Lennon

Britain's vote to leave the European Union exactly a year ago on Friday was the biggest in a series of shocks that the bloc has faced, but it now insists it i...

Democrats' real problem is that Nancy Pelosi is their true face

Her victory Tuesday over Democrat Jon Ossoff in Georgia's 6th Congressional District means Republicans held all four of their seats that were up for grab...

US F-15 Fighter Jet Shoots Down Assad Regime Drone in Syria

Despite bouts of relative calm, the pro-Assad Iranian-backed forces have continued to encroach, at one point moving along the periphery of the deconfliction are...

Warren Gatland: 'British and Irish Lions continually improving'

The Lions failed to impress in New Zealand as they struggled in three of their first four games but they have been brutally clinical in their last two match...

Health Bill Includes Opioid Funding, but May Not Satisfy Some GOP Senators

Georgia Senator David Perdue said this week that " Obamacare is failing and that people are losing access to insurance through the exchanges". However, the...

Nancy Pelosi Faces Heat From Democrats After Georgia Loss

Democrat Jon Ossoff never found an answer for the attacks - and Republican Karen Handel won Tuesday night by 4 percentage points. He said defending Pelosi ...

Iran missile attack in IS a public demand

And on Monday, a USA fighter jet shot down a pro-Syrian regime drone in southeastern Syria . In recent years the SDF has driven IS from much of northern S...

Wisconsin gerrymandering case heads to United States supreme court

House of Representatives , governors' mansions, and state houses across America. Lawmakers said they ignored race in redrawing the state's congressional distr...

Goldie may have just revealed Banksy's identity

Goldie let slip the name in an interview with spoken word poet Scroobius Pip when he was ranting about the art world cashing in on Banksy's work. 'Wishful ...

Rand Paul: "Looks Like We're Keeping Obamacare, Not Repealing It"

It has come under widespread criticism from Democrats and helped prompt some moderate House Republicans to vote against the measure. Both the Senate and House ...

Bucks add another young forward in Michigan's DJ Wilson

Wilson marks the sixth first-round pick from MI in the last five years, and he was the first Big Ten player selected this year. The Bucks hold the 17th overall ...

Turkey has no plans to reassess military base in Qatar: Minister

Cutting ties to Iran would prove incredibly hard as Qatar shares a massive offshore natural gas field with Iran , which supplies the small nation. There wa...

Four Republic senators oppose new healthcare bill

Ted Cruz joined a bloc of conservative senators who announced in the afternoon that they couldn't back the bill at this time . Thune says there could be a...

Brexit: what kind of deal can Theresa May arrange now?

The EU's position, among other things, said that the European Commission should be able to monitor the enforcement of citizens' rights , and the bloc's top cou...

Government health insurance markets holding up, barely

In contrast, the Affordable Care Act itself remains far more popular than the plan that would replace it. Other insurers, like Medicaid specialist Centene Cor...

Darjeeling unrest continues, Rajnath Singh appeals peace; Mamata smells conspiracy

On Saturday, Darjeeling had witnessed widespread clashes between GJM activists and the police in which one person was killed and 35 security personnel were i...

USA naval warships arrive in Qatar for military exercise

He described Iran-Kenya relations as good and assured Kenya of Tehran's readiness for providing humanitarian aid to the country, the IRNA news agency reported...

The Person Who Attacked A Paris Police Van With Explosives Has Died

Neither the officers involved or any witnesses were hurt, but the attacker - a 31-year-old man who had been flagged for extremism - died in the explosion. Accor...