Category Archives: World News

• Top Democrats say Trump could face impeachment, jail over campaign finance violations

  admin December 9, 2018

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump could face impeachment and jail time if hush money payments reported by his former lawyer are proven to be campaign finance violations, Democratic lawmakers said on Sunday. The White House has derided the allegations as lies from Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen. Read more »

• Hundreds of thousands without power as massive winter storm hits U.S. South

  admin December 9, 2018

  

  A massive storm brought snow, sleet, and freezing rain across a wide swath of the U.S. South on Sunday — causing dangerously icy roads, immobilizing snowfalls and power losses to hundreds of thousands of people. Read more »

• ‘Uncharted waters’ if British MPs reject Brexit deal, May warns

  admin December 9, 2018

  

  With a crucial parliamentary vote on Brexit looming, British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned legislators they could take Britain into “uncharted waters” and trigger a general election if they reject the divorce deal she struck with the European Union. Read more »

• John Kelly joins list of those fired, departed or resigned from Trump’s White House

  admin December 9, 2018

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump has said White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his job at the end of the year, extending the historically high turnover in the top ranks of his administration. Read more »

• Hundreds arrested in France as minister says protests now ‘under control’

  admin December 9, 2018

  

  Interior Minister Christophe Castaner Casataner estimated there were 10,000 yellow vest protesters in Paris on Saturday, among some 125,000 protesters around the country. Read more »

• U.S. House committee releases transcript of closed-door interview with James Comey

  admin December 8, 2018

  

  The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia initially focused on four Americans and whether they were connected to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Read more »

• Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly to leave at end of year

  admin December 8, 2018

  

  White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his job at the end of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday, adding that the former Marine Corps general has been a loyal aide during his tenure. Read more »

• 6 dead, dozens hurt in nightclub stampede on Italy’s coast

  admin December 8, 2018

  

  Emergency responders in Corinaldo, Italy say six people were killed and dozens injured after a stampede broke out at a nightclub last night. Read more »

• ‘Substantial’ prison term recommended for former Trump attorney Michael Cohen

  admin December 7, 2018

  

  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Friday asked a judge to sentence Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, to a “substantial term of imprisonment” for paying an adult film star hush money on Trump’s behalf and evading taxes. Read more »

• Man who drove into Charlottesville crowd guilty of first-degree murder

  admin December 7, 2018

  

  A man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year has been convicted of first-degree murder. Read more »