AUGUST 24, 2018
Treasurer of Australia Scott Morrison arrives for a party meeting in Canberra, Australia August 24, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/Pool
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's new Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday promised a stable government at the end of a tumultuous week in which his predecessor was forced out of office, 13 ministers resigned and Parliament was shut down...
AUGUST 24, 2018
When it comes to flipping, Rudy Giuliani won’t budge.
The former federal prosecutor — famous for coaxing New York mobsters into spilling the beans on their bosses — took a slight jab at President Trump on Friday over his claim that the longstanding legal tactic of “flipping” ought to be “outlawed.”
“The President is not a lawyer,” Giuliani told...
AUGUST 24, 2018
FILE PHOTO: Labourers, who set up the venue, sit under a wall with a billboard displaying a photo of Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), political party, as they listen to him during a campaign rally ahead of general elections in Karachi, Pakistan July 22, 2018. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/File Photo
Karachi, Pakistan - Pakistan has called for...
AUGUST 24, 2018
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will soon introduce legislation that would require large employers like Amazon, Walmart and McDonald’s to fully cover the cost of food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other federal assistance received by their employees. The goal, he says, is to force corporations to pay a living wage and curb roughly $150 billion in taxpayer...
AUGUST 24, 2018
President Donald Trump listens as Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. - AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump renewed pressure Friday on Jeff Sessions to investigate the actions of his adversaries — what he called “corruption” on the “other side” — after the attorney general...
AUGUST 23, 2018
President Trump listens to lawmakers during a roundtable on the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Thursday. - Jabin Botsford/Washington Post
President Trump asked his lawyers several weeks ago for their advice on the possibility of pardoning Paul Manafort and other aides accused of crimes, his lawyer said Thursday.
The...
AUGUST 23, 2018
Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Trump, leaves a federal courthouse in New York on Tuesday. - Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg
Michael Cohen was a man in a bind.
For years, the longtime lawyer for Donald Trump had been taking out larger and larger loans, using his taxicab business as collateral even as it dropped in value — at least...
AUGUST 23, 2018
LONDON -- South Africa accused United States President Donald Trump of sowing division Thursday after he tweeted that the U.S. State Department would probe "land and farm seizures... and the large scale killing of farmers."
Trump's tweet apparently followed a segment on Fox News about Pretoria's plan to change the constitution to speed up expropriation of land without...
AUGUST 22, 2018
New Delhi: The government is open to accepting foreign aid and humanitarian assistance meant to get Kerala back on its feet after the devastating floods, sources said this evening. While no nation has yet offered aid formally, there have been offers from various organizations and foundations. The assistance, however, will be subject to the existing norms and...
AUGUST 22, 2018
James Anderson shakes hands with Virat Kohli after the match - Getty Images
Jasprit Bumrah's second five-wicket haul helped India crush England by 203 runs to win the third Test at Trent Bridge on Wednesday. The teams had to return on the final day after England's lower-order stubbornly kept India waiting for the final wicket. The five-match match...
