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CHICAGO – The clock is ticking ever more loudly for Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg as the grounding of the 737 Max hits the seven-month mark.The board removed him as chairman Friday after the close of the…

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday to develop more advanced and modern weapons, amid increasingly tense disputes with the United States and Gulf…

WASHINGTON – Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards failed to garner more than half of the votes in Saturday’s primary election, forcing him into a run-off with Republican candidate Eddie Rispone to be held Nov. 16.Edwards won 47 percent…

WASHINGTON – A U.S. ambassador is expected to tell Congress that his text message reassuring another envoy that there was no quid pro quo in their interactions with Ukraine was based solely on what President Donald Trump told him,…

WASHINGTON – Amid growing chaos in Syria, President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the country’s north to avoid a bloody conflict between Turkey and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that “gets worse by the…

WASHINGTON – House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff defended holding testimony behind closed doors in the impeachment inquiry he’s heading up against President Donald Trump, likening this phase of the investigation to a…

MOSCOW – From Syria to Ukraine, new fault lines and tensions are offering the Kremlin fresh opportunities to expand its clout and advance its interests.The U.S. military withdrawal from northern Syria before a Turkish offensive…

WASHINGTON – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday the Pentagon would cooperate with the congressional impeachment inquiry — in an apparent break with President Donald Trump’s policy to thwart the probe.Esper said his…

AKCAKALE, TURKEY – Hundreds of Islamic State supporters escaped from a holding camp in northern Syria on Sunday amid heavy clashes between invading Turkish-led forces and Kurdish fighters, and President Donald Trump ordered all…

NEW YORK – Facing intense scrutiny from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, Hunter Biden announced on Sunday that he will step down from the board of directors of a Chinese-backed private equity firm at the end of the…

Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, is stepping down from the board of a Chinese-backed private equity firm following blistering attacks from US president Donald Trump.According to the New York Post, in a…

Penny Wong labels Scott Morrison’s warning against negative globalism “disturbingly lightweight” in a speech targeting his handling of foreign affairs and the China relationship. In a speech to the Australian Institute of International…

Turkish forces approached a key Kurdish-held town in northern Syria on Sunday, setting off clashes that allowed hundreds of Islamic State supporters to escape from a camp for displaced people and prompted US soldiers to withdraw from a…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Saturday stood behind personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, one of his highest-profile and most vocal defenders, amid reports that federal prosecutors in the city Giuliani led as mayor are eyeing…

North Korea has “strongly demanded” that Japan pay compensation for a fishing boat that sank when it collided with a Fisheries Agency patrol boat vessel last week, according to state media.The collision, which occurred last Monday,…

Teenage activist Greta Thunberg was back in the spotlight overnight after her Nobel Peace Prize “snub”, leading a climate protest in the United States.“It is we young people and future generations who are going to suffer the most from…

The commander of Kurdish forces in Syria has accused the United States of leaving his people to be slaughtered, and demanded to know whether Donald Trump will do anything to protect them.Mr Trump decided to withdraw US forces from…

There is a convention in sporting contests to play in the spirit of the game, to play the ball rather than the man.Attempts to win outside of this convention — even if they are technically within the rules — tend to backfire violently on…

US President Donald Trump has defended his lawyer Rudy Giuliani as a “legendary crime buster” and “wonderful lawyer” after a media report said prosecutors are investigating whether the former New York mayor broke lobbying laws in his…

NEW YORK – Federal judges in three states on Friday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s policy to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other government benefits, dealing a setback to one of the…