A federal judge on Monday said she was "furious" with the Trump administration's move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate. read more
The Nobel Prize for economics has been awarded to Robert E Hall and Michael Woodford, for their work on the "microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation". read more
North Korea has fired multiple ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military says. read more
Embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton is begging voters to ignore audio leaks of him trashing Donald Trump ... read more
The big news on U.S. foreign policy was that Trump announced that he was buying 300,000 tons of Russian diesel. read more
Russia has attacked a power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite President Donald Trump's statement earlier Sunday that both sides had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," according to Ukrainian officials. read more
The Trump administration is missing the bigger picture. read more
Three decades before the Pentagon announced plans to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood mass shooter, legendary comedian George Carlin imagined an America where capital punishment became televised entertainment as a handy distraction from the country's problems. read more
The US justice department (DoJ) says it is investigating several television networks over whether they broke federal competition laws when they recently suspended pool coverage of President Donald Trump. read more
The Pentagon admitted that more troops have died in the Middle East than it had previously publicly reported, raising the official number of U.S. service members who died during the war against Iran to 21. read more
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) vowed Saturday to force a House vote to block Russian oil purchases, challenging President Trump's diesel deal with President Vladimir Putin. read more
Saudi Arabia has said that at least 12 people have been killed and more than 300 were wounded in an attack by Yemen's Houthis on the King Khalid International airport near its capital, Riyadh. read more
A woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said. read more
Trump and key allies have accused Omar of immigration fraud, and have called to expel her from the country read more
