U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday pressed the Trump administration’s case for isolating and containing Iran in the Middle East and beyond as he pushed for Saudi Arabia and Iraq to unite in common cause to counter growing Iranian assertiveness. He called for the removal of Iranian and […]
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Japanese Prime Minister Abe heads to impressive election win
Japan’s ruling coalition appeared headed to an impressive win in national elections on Sunday, in what would represent at least a partial comeback for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. A victory would boost Abe’s chances of winning another three-year term next September as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party. That could […]
WATCH: Former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus on North Korea threat
Transcript for Former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus on North Korea threat As we mentioned, I traveled some 7,000 miles to the sea of Japan this week. And it really felt like a world away from the political rancor here at home. The men and women who stand ready to […]
Letter penned a day before Titanic sank sold at UK auction
A letter written by one of the Titanic’s passengers a day before the ocean liner sank has sold for 126,000 pounds ($166,000) at an auction in England. The handwritten note, on embossed Titanic stationery, was penned by first-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson on April 13, 1912 — the day before […]
African rhino injures poacher in rare reversal of fortunes
A rhino turned the tables on a suspected poacher in Namibia, charging and injuring the man while he was allegedly tracking it. The incident happened in Etosha National Park after suspect Luteni Muharukua and other alleged poachers illegally entered the wildlife area in hopes of killing rhinos for their horns, […]
US Navy prepares to defend allies amid heightened tensions with North Korea
Off the coast of the Korean Peninsula, U.S. and South Korean Navy ships prepared for an event they hope will never happen: a North Korean land and air attack against their neighbors to the south. The annual bilateral training exercise called Maritime Counter Special Operations Force involved a U.S. aircraft […]
Border Patrol K-9 sniffs out meth hidden in stuffed toy dog
It took the well-trained nose of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection canine to sniff that something was amiss with a plush toy dog at a California immigration checkpoint earlier this week. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday at an immigration checkpoint near Blythe, California referred the driver of a Dodge […]
Freight train derails in Tennessee, slams into at least 2 buildings
A freight train with 20 cars derailed Saturday night in North Knoxville, Tennessee, with some of the cars slamming into at least two buildings, according to police. Norfolk Southern Railway PR director Susan Terpay confirmed to ABC News that the derailed train belongs to the company. She said the train […]
Park hikers may have died in ‘sympathetic murder-suicide’
Friends and relatives of a couple whose bodies were found in Joshua Tree National Park say they believe the two got lost while hiking in the sprawling desert park and struggled in the searing heat with little food or water before they died in a “sympathetic murder-suicide.” Rachel Nguyen, 20, […]
Trump to appear via video as 5 former presidents gather for hurricane relief concert
President Donald Trump will appear via video message tonight at a hurricane relief concert in a Texas college town, where five former U.S. presidents will be in attendance, the White House confirmed. Democrats Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and Republicans George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush are […]