After telling reporters that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike this month, sought to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in a Friday interview: "I can reveal that I believe it would have been four embassies" Soleimani was plotting against.
5"There is no doubt that there were a series of imminent attacks that were being plotted by (Iranian general) Qassem Soleimani," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Thursday evening on Fox News. "We don't know precisely when, and we don't know precisely where, but it was real."
On Friday morning at a White House news conference, a reporter informed Pompeo that not knowing precisely when and where was not the definition of "imminent."
In a meandering, convoluted interview late Saturday, Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani insisted the Supreme Court can dismiss the president’s impeachment.
He called the action unconstitutional, even though impeachment is written into the Constitution.
The State Department's chief spokeswoman said the U.S. presence in Iraq is a "force for good" and U.S. officials would not discuss a military withdrawal.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent an alarming email to his supporters, warning that Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder is on the cusp of using the courts to “steal” his congressional seat and replace him with a “radical liberal.” He asked readers for “$25 or more” to “fight this liberal scheme.”
Rep. Schiff using the wayback machine to point out that McConnell in 1999 used to think "Senators should hear from witnesses. Senators should see the documents. Only then can they make the best possible decision regarding the President's misconduct."
Allen has already scheduled the measure for a Jan. 14 hearing in the Senate Education Committee, which she chairs, making it the first 2020 salvo in an conflict that’s been brewing since last spring, when lawmakers repealed a decades-old law that forbade the promotion of a “homosexual lifestyle.”
Donald Trump Jr. on Sunday posted three photos on Instagram of his AR-15 that features a depiction of Hillary Clinton apparently behind bars. In the images, President Trump's eldest son smiles while holding the assault rife. The former secretary of state can be seen on the weapon's magazine.
Trump has long wanted his trial to feature a theatrical defense aimed at winning him vindication but top Senate Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have been advising Trump that bringing on GOP House members could frustrate efforts to keep Republicans as unified as possible during the trial.
Questions have long surrounded a criminal investigation into the Trump family’s dealings around the Trump SoHo that was dropped in 2011. Public disclosure of email correspondence revealed that Don Jr and Ivanka knowingly used figures that exaggerated how well the condos were selling in a ploy to lure more buyers.
Gov. Ralph Northam’s office says he will push for legislation replacing Virginia’s statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee housed in the United States Capitol Building.
Protesters in Iran's capital demanded the resignation of senior leaders following the admission by authorities - after days of denials - that Iranian forces accidentally downed a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board.
Iran's only female Olympic medalist says she has defected Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh says she is tired of being used as a propaganda tool by Iranian authorities.
Libyan forces loyal to Haftar announce conditional ceasefire Ceasefire might prove hard to maintain following escalation of fighting around Tripoli, Sirte and nature of alliances.
A volcano near the Philippine capital of Manila has spewed a massive cloud of ash into the sky, forcing the precautionary evacuation of thousands of residents, authorities said.
On Saturday, Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected as Taiwan's president with 57 percent of the vote, an all-time high. Nearly three in four of the 19-million-strong electorate cast a ballot.
Tsai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) managed to hold on to its majority.
State news media blamed "anti-China political forces" for Tsai's re-election, calling her victory a threat to the "peaceful development of cross-strait relations".
Athletes will not be permitted to kneel in protest, use hand gestures or display any political messages at this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said.
An opposition party in Singapore has mounted the first legal challenge against an online misinformation law that activists say is being used to silence criticism of the government ahead of elections.
The Rural Fire Service in New South Wales state told fire-weary community meetings in coastal communities south of Sydney that northwesterly winds were likely to drive blazes towards the coast once again.
Judges from across Europe have joined Polish peers, lawyers and members of the public as they marched in silence to protest against what they describe as the systematic erosion of judicial independence by Poland's government.
Muscat, 45, announced in December he would quit following widespread anger over his perceived efforts to protect friends and allies from a probe into the 2017 killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. He is set to resign later on Sunday.
Tens of thousands of pro-independence supporters rallied on the streets of Glasgow on Saturday despite torrential rain and high winds, calling for a second referendum on Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom.
EU foreign ministers backed away from any immediate response to Iran's decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium, instead repeating their call for Tehran to respect the limits of a 2015 nuclear arms control accord.
More than 400,000 protesters mobilised across France for a fourth round of protests, as talks between unions and the government fail to break the stalemate over plans to overhaul the pension system.
Thursday also saw transport strikes, the longest France has witnessed for decades, enter a 36th day.
Hundreds of demonstrators contesting a local election in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia have broken into the de facto leader's office demanding his resignation, according to Russian state media.
Mexicans seeking asylum in the United States could be sent to Guatemala under a bilateral agreement signed by the Central American nation last year, according to documents sent to US asylum officers in recent days and seen by Reuters.
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas on Friday became the first governor in the country to refuse to accept refugees after President Donald Trump signed an executive order empowering local jurisdictions to consent to the federal programme.
The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by United States President Donald Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations.
United States President Donald Trump, who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on January 15, said on Thursday the agreement could be signed "shortly thereafter".
At least 14 people have been killed and more than 20 others wounded in a bomb attack on a mosque during sunset prayers in the southwest Pakistan city of Quetta.
About 1,000 students and faculties marched from the JNU to a government office to demand the resignation of the vice chancellor, M Jagadesh Kumar, whom some accuse of allowing the assailants armed with sledgehammers, shovels and other weapons to ransack a university dormitory and beat up students on Sunday.
"According to the people, over 60 civilians were killed and wounded in the operation," Toryalai Tahiri, deputy head of Herat provincial council, told Afghan local media TOLO News.
The United Nations envoy for West Africa and the Sahel says the region has experienced "a devastating surge in terrorist attacks against civilian and military targets" in recent months.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas told the UN on Wednesday that the "unprecedented terrorist violence" had shaken public confidence in the region.
He called the action unconstitutional, even though impeachment is written into the Constitution.
Trump Will Invoke Executive Privilege to Block Bolton Testimony
Senators should hear from witnesses. Senators should see the documents. Only then can they make the best possible decision regarding the President's misconduct."Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh says she is tired of being used as a propaganda tool by Iranian authorities.
Ceasefire might prove hard to maintain following escalation of fighting around Tripoli, Sirte and nature of alliances.
Tsai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) managed to hold on to its majority.
Thursday also saw transport strikes, the longest France has witnessed for decades, enter a 36th day.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas told the UN on Wednesday that the "unprecedented terrorist violence" had shaken public confidence in the region.