USA

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised public and private entities for vowing to press ahead with the goals of the Paris accord on climate change, despite his successor’s decision to abandon the landmark global agreement. Speaking at an event in Montreal, one of the few public appearances he has made since leaving office in

Hillary Clinton on Monday praised London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s leadership following Saturday’s terrorist attack, telling a crowd in Baltimore that now is not the time to use terror “for political gain.” The failed Democratic presidential nominee issued the thinly veiled attack against President Trump, without naming him or his policies directly, while speaking in Fells

President Donald Trump has called on the U.S. Supreme Court to authorize his ban on travel to the United States from six majority-Muslim countries. The president and his administration have insisted his executive order limiting travel to the United States was not a travel ban, but he called it that Monday on Twitter. “People, the

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had a frosty welcome as he made a brief visit to New Zealand, amid the furore over the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change agreement. Despite a traditional Maori greeting befitting a foreign dignitary after he landed in Wellington, locals made rude gestures at his motorcade as it

London Mayor Sadiq Khan called Monday on the British government to cancel an anticipated state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump after Trump’s tweets criticizing Khan’s response to the radical Islamist attack in London Bridge that killed seven people over the weekend. Trump censured Khan on Sunday but misquoted him. Khan, in his statement after

A National Security Agency contractor named Reality Winner, 25, has been arrested by the FBI and charged with retaining and transmitting classified national defense information in violation of United States code 18 U.S.C. § 793(e). That’s according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Winner, who worked for the Pluribus International Corporation and

Tuesday marks 73 years since D-Day, the pivotal World War II operation in which Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. It is known to be the largest seaborne invasion in history, with more than 160,000 soldiers landing on the beach in Normandy to take on the Nazi German fighters. Up to 12,000