The U.S. Senate will pause former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial from Friday evening to Saturday evening this week to honor a request by a Trump attorney who observes the Jewish Sabbath. This report produced by Emma Jehle.
Space experts believe object could have come from satellite or spacecraft
Dana Smith said, ‘I couldn’t hold water down. At some point I started to throw up blood’
Papua New Guinea's first prime minister, Michael Somare, has died aged 84, his daughter said on Friday. Known as the "father of the nation", Somare led the Pacific archipelago to independence from Australia in 1975 and served four times as prime minister. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early February, his daughter, Betha Somare, said in a statement.
GOP’s Greg Steube attacked for comments by Democrats during Equality Act debate
Texas senator shamed for Cancun trip delivered a high-energy CPAC speech studded with Star Wars references
The Boss’s blood alcohol level was one quarter of limit for driving
A department of natural resources officer also died after suffering a “medical emergency” at the scene, officials say.
Event condemned as ‘barbaric, cruel, senseless and environmentally terrorising money grab’
Employees also claim that Barack Obama and his family craved privacy while in executive mansion
Former House speaker previously referred to Texas senator as ‘Lucifer in the flesh’
Jasmine Johnnae Clifton allegedly spent funds at more than 20 stores
In closing remarks spanning attacks on Joe Biden and outrage over right-wing grievances with The Muppets and Mr Potato Head, Donald Trump Jr said his father’s “Make America Great Again” agenda remains the “the future” of the Republican Party following his loss in the 2020 presidential election. Moments before Trump Jr’s speech, Trump adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle said that the former president “from his desk at Mar-a-Lago will accomplish more for America in the next four years than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could ever dream of.”
Australia's Fortescue Metals Group has apologised to an Aboriginal group for clearing land on a heritage site while flouting a government condition for representatives of the community to be present when the damage took place. It is the week's second such incident, despite pressure on Australian iron ore miners to show they have improved practices to manage important sites after Rio Tinto destroyed two sacred rock shelters for a mine expansion last May. Fortescue had state government permission to clear the land in the Weelamurra Creek area registered as sacred to the Wintawari Guruma people, on condition that community elders were present to perform salvage and cultural rites, four documents reviewed by Reuters showed.
‘The chair cannot entertain the gentleman’s request’
U.S. President Joseph Biden's new administration said on Wednesday it would continue its international re-engagement by seeking election to the U.N. Human Rights Council where it will press to eliminate a "disproportionate focus" on ally Israel. Under former President Donald Trump's more isolationist approach, Washington quit the council in 2018 but the Biden government has already returned as an observer. "I'm pleased to announce the United States will seek election to the Human Rights Council for the 2022-24 term," Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the council by video.
The 59-year-old motorcyclist was heading north on Boiling Springs Road in Lexington Wednesday when he struck the rear of a van that had slowed to make a turn, officials said.
Mike Pence is returning to his home state of Indiana to decide his future, but residents in his home town of Columbus are torn on his legacy, reports Richard Hall.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she won't take AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine because she is too old, a comment that comes as millions of Germans refuse to take the vaccine because they do not trust it.
Republicans point to wages they earned as young people decades ago despite rising inflation that has outpaced Americans’ earnings
The ambassador made an emotional appeal urging countries to help remove the military from power.
