Trump impeachment hearings to go public next week

Democrats announce they will launch public impeachment hearings, intending to bring to life weeks of closed-door testimony and lay out a convincing narrative of presidential misconduct by Donald Trump.
7 November 2019, 05:54 AM

US accuses 2 ex-Twitter employees of spying for Saudi Arabia

Two former employees of Twitter and a third man from Saudi Arabia face US charges of spying for the kingdom by digging up private user data and giving it to Saudi officials in exchange for payment, a complaint from the Department of Justice shows.
7 November 2019, 04:31 AM

Whistleblower offers Republicans testimony as Trump pushes for unmasking

The US official whose whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump offered to communicate directly with Republicans on the intelligence committee leading the inquiry, his lawyers says.
4 November 2019, 04:37 AM

Trump to move permanent residence to Florida

US President Donald Trump announces that he will change his permanent residence from New York to Palm Beach, Florida, claiming he had been "treated very badly" in his native city.
1 November 2019, 07:47 AM

US House formalizes Trump impeachment process in landmark vote

A deeply divided Congress formally opens a new, public phase of its investigation into Donald Trump as US lawmakers vote for the first time to advance the impeachment process targeting the US president.
1 November 2019, 04:33 AM

State of emergency as California wildfires rage

California's governor declares a state-wide emergency as a huge wind-fueled blaze forces evacuations and massive power blackouts, threatening towns in the famed Sonoma wine region.
28 October 2019, 05:13 AM

US’s goal in Syria: protecting oil

After abruptly pulling US troops who protected Kurdish fighters, President Donald Trump has identified protecting oil as the new goal in Syria. But experts question if the new strategy is realistic, or even legal.
26 October 2019, 18:00 PM

US voices Kashmir concern as lawmakers raise tone on India

The United States on Tuesday renewed calls on India to ease its clampdown in Kashmir as several lawmakers voiced anger at actions by a country that usually enjoys robust US support.
23 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Testimony adds fuel to fire

The top US diplomat in Ukraine poured fuel on Donald Trump’s impeachment probe Tuesday with a detailed account of how the president pushed Kiev to discredit one of his main political rivals, withholding US military aid to exert pressure.
23 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Impeachment is ‘lynching’

US President Donald Trump yesterday likened the impeachment investigation against him to a “lynching,” a racially charged word from the darkest days of America’s slavery legacy.
22 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Trump resort to host G7!

Furious that US President Donald Trump announced he will host the next G7 summit at his own golf resort in Florida, congressional Democrats introduced legislation Friday to block his plan.
19 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Biden leads US Democratic race

Former Vice President Joe Biden expanded his lead over more than a dozen other candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.
19 October 2019, 18:00 PM

‘Don’t be a fool’

“Don’t be a fool,” Donald Trump warned his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an extraordinary letter sent the day Turkey launched its incursion into northeastern Syria -- warning history risked branding him a “devil.”
17 October 2019, 18:48 PM

Back Trudeau for another term

Former US president Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Canadian voters to back Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for another term, calling him an “effective leader.”
17 October 2019, 18:44 PM

Trump pushed for Ukraine probe of firm tied to Bidens

A US diplomat yesterday told Congress that President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer injected domestic politics into talks with Ukraine, including seeking a probe of a Ukrainian company with ties to the son of Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden.
17 October 2019, 18:41 PM

Democrat Cummings, at center of Trump probe, dies

Senior Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings, who was at the center of the Trump impeachment inquiry, died early yesterday at the age of 68
17 October 2019, 18:37 PM

Two Americans detained in China on border charges

Two Americans from an English-teaching business in China have been detained and bailed in the east of the country on suspicion of “organising others to illegally cross the border
17 October 2019, 18:37 PM

Trump muddles facts on US Syria withdrawal

US President Donald Trump muddled the facts Wednesday on America’s withdrawal from Syria and the conditions on the ground there, as he distanced himself and the US from the ongoing Turkish invasion into Syria.
17 October 2019, 05:48 AM

Trump on Turkey going into Syria: 'It's not our border'

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday again tried to distance himself and the US from the unfolding fighting and humanitarian crisis in north-eastern Syria, telling reporters in the Oval Office, "It's not our border," according to abcnews.com.
17 October 2019, 04:58 AM

Schiff claims ‘dramatic progress’

The leader of the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump said Tuesday that witnesses had provided substantial support for allegations that Trump illegally tried to force Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden.
16 October 2019, 18:00 PM