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Recent market volatility is one of several signs that an economic boom may be petering out, potentially dealing a severe blow to the president’s reelection chances. President Donald Trump’s economic officials are reassuring investors about recent white-knuckle stock market volatility, while Trump’s political advisers are increasingly alarmed that the economy could present a stiff 2020 […]

Police arrest a student close to the Saint-Exupery high school in Mantes-la-Jolie in the Yvelines, following clashes in which 146 people were arrested on December 6, 2018. (AFP Photo) Images of dozens of high-school pupils kneeling with their hands behind their heads during mass round-ups sparked an outcry Friday as France braces for more violence […]

   Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, presides over the first plenary session of the national leading group on science and technology in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 6, 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing) BEIJING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) — […]

  U.S. border patrol agents standing in San Ysidro, Calif. stand watch as they respond to at least two men who got close to the U.S. border wall from the Mexican side, one with his face covered and another holding rocks, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. The number of arrests at the border has skyrocketed. (REBECCA […]

File photo: © REUTERS / Denis Balibouse Current scientific theories about the universe only account for roughly five percent of what’s in it. According to a new theory, everything we have observed so far actually floats in a mysterious, theoretical, ‘cosmic soup’. The remaining 95 percent of the universe, we currently believe, is made up […]

TEHRAN – Attempts to bring the United Nations Security Council into a consensus against Iran’s missile tests failed to achieve the desired conclusion sought by the U.S., France and Britain. On Tuesday, the UN Security Council held a closed session whose primary focus was the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Britain and France seized […]

Stockholm, Sweden – Representatives from the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels are attending UN-sponsored peace talks in Sweden aimed at ending more than three years of devastating war. For only the second time since the conflict began, officials from President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government and representatives from the Houthi rebel movement, will attend talks aimed at […]

TOKYO (AP) — A Marine refueling plane and a fighter jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan’s southwestern coast after colliding early Thursday, and rescuers found two of the seven crew members, one of them in stable condition, officials said. The U.S. Marine Corps said that the 2 a.m. crash involved an F/A-18 fighter […]

In this Oct. 16, 2018, file photo, a security personnel is seen inside the entrance of the Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. (AA Photo) A Turkish court issued arrest warrants for former Saudi Deputy Foreign Intelligence Chief Gen. Ahmed Asiri and Royal Court Adviser Saud Al-Qahtani over their roles in the murder of journalist Jamal […]

A medical team hold the first baby born via uterus transplant from a deceased donor at a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 15, 2017. In a medical first, a mother who received a uterus transplant from a dead donor gave birth to a healthy baby, researchers reported Wednesday.  The breakthrough operation, performed in […]