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WASHINGTON — The United States has denied a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that would have allowed him to attend a United Nations Security Council meeting in New York on Thursday, a US official said. Yesterday’s comments by the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, came as tensions escalate between the two countries after the United …

United States lawmakers return to Washington Friday with the country’s President, Donald Trump’s upcoming impeachment trial looming over the first Senate session of 2020, but congressional leaders are locked in stalemate over how to proceed. As Congress braces for a frenetic January, newly uncovered evidence could bolster Democrats’ demands for testimony from key witnesses with firsthand knowledge of Trump’s Ukraine …

President Donald J. Trump highlighted the sacrifices and grit of U.S. service members fighting against extremism by visiting Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, for Thanksgiving. The president also met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the U.S. Air Force headquarters on the base. He then spoke to more than a thousand service members at a hangar on the flight line. “We’ve had …

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday announced a proposed rule to deter aliens from illegally entering the United States and from filing frivolous, fraudulent or otherwise non-meritorious asylum applications in order to obtain employment authorization.The proposed rule will better allow USCIS to extend protections to thosewith bona fide asylum claims. USCIS also seeks to prevent certain criminal aliens from obtaining work authorization …

Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he was so troubled by President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s President that he reported his concerns to a superior, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by CNN. Vindman will also tell lawmakers that …

The death of ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will not end terrorism, but it will “send a message to those who would question America’s resolve and provide a warning to terrorists who think they can hide,” Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said . “The United States — more than any nation in the world — possesses the power and …

“Baghdadi’s demise demonstrates America’s relentless pursuit of terrorist leaders and our commitment to the enduring and total defeat of ISIS and other terrorist organizations.”President Donald J. Trump“ United States forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in Northwestern Syria last night, President Donald J. Trump announced today. The “daring and dangerous raid” went off without a hitch, …

A German court on Thursday sentenced an 80-year-old man to seven-year imprisonment for series of bank robberies over a decade. The bank staff targeted by the man had endured considerable psychological suffering, presiding Judge, Hannes Breucker, said in Hechingen, south-west Germany. The man admitted to targeting a number of banks over the years between 2009 and 2019, using the same …

WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday. The New York Times reported that Mr. Bolton got into a sharp exchange …

New York (CNN Business) A former Trump Organization executive says she thinks President Donald Trump may resign rather than face possible removal from office by impeachment. “He does a lot of things to save face,” Barbara Res, a former Trump Organization vice president, told CNN’s Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources Sunday. “It would be very, very, very bad for him to be …