US coast guard officer accused of terror plot could face more charges

By VOA,

A US Coast Guard lieutenant accused of amassing a cache of weapons and plotting to attack Democratic politicians and journalists was ordered held for ...

US

Trump to nominate Jeffrey Rosen as deputy attorney general

By VOA,

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Jeffrey Rosen as the next deputy U.S. attorney general, the White House said on Tuesday night, the latest shu...

Jeffrey Rosen

Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein to step down in March: official

By Reuters,

Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general who appointed a special counsel to investigate possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trum...

attorney general , Rosenstein

Judge keeps documents secret in Facebook encryption case

By Reuters,

A U.S. judge on Monday rejected a bid by two civil rights groups that had sought to force the release of documents describing a secret U.S. government...

facebook , U.S

Even some Republicans balk as Trump targets US spy chiefs

By CNN,

Even after two years, President Donald Trump's assaults on US spy chiefs are shocking coming from a commander in chief. The President's Twitter bar...

Trump wounded by border wall retreat in deal to end shutdown

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump, who famously vowed to negotiate big deals in the White House, came out of a government shutdown battle on Friday politically w...

Trump longtime ally Stone arrested in U.S. Special Counsel probe

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Roger Stone was arrested on Friday on charges of obstruction, witness tampering and making false stateme...

Prosecutor: American held in Iran on security-related charges

By VOA,

A U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran in July is being held in connection to a “private complaint,” the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Fri...

American held in Iran , Security charges

Kansas bomb plot trio given decades in prison

By VOA,

Three militia members convicted of taking part in a foiled plot to massacre Muslims in southwest Kansas were sentenced Friday to decades in prison dur...

Bomb plot trio , Kansas

Backing down, Trump agrees to end shutdown without border wall money

By Reuters,

President Donald Trump agreed under mounting pressure on Friday to end a 35-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without getting the $5.7 billion ...

FBI, divers, state officials search for 3-year-old boy who disappeared from his grandmother’s backyard

By CNN,

Gone for more than 24 hours as temperatures drop to near freezing, a missing 3-year-old is the "number one priority" of police in North Carolina, offi...

3-year-old boy , FBI

Iranian Journalist Marzieh Hashemi has been released from US custody

By CNN,

An Iranian journalist whose arrest in the United States this month under mysterious circumstances drew rebukes from the highest levels of the Iranian ...

Hashemi , Iranian , journalist , Marzieh

Political fallout uncertain as shutdown moves into month 2

By VOA,

As the partial shutdown of the U.S. government goes into a second month, neither side can be sure about the long-term political fallout. Public opi...

Political fallout , Washington

Senate sets votes but U.S. shutdown likely to go on

By Reuters,

There was no sign of quick relief for 800,000 federal workers going without pay because of the partial government shutdown as the U.S. Senate schedule...

House of Representatives , Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , President Donald Trump , U.S Senate , U.S-Mexico border wall

Trump says he never worked for Russia, rejects media reports

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he never worked for Russia, his first direct denial after a media report saying the FBI in 2017 opened a co...

FBI , James Comey , MICHAEL FLYNN , Robert Mueller , russia , U.S President Donald Trump

Meet the IT guy who led authorities to El Chapo’s secrets

By CNN,

From his hideout in the mountains of Northwest Mexico, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman took pleasure in secretly listening in on the conversations of his wi...

Trump threatens to use emergency power to build wall, end shutdown

By Reuters,

Flanked by border agents who are going without paychecks during a government shutdown, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to use emerg...

Trump eyes emergency powers to pay for border wall, end shutdown

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use emergency powers to bypass Congress and get billions of dollars to pay for a wall on the U.S...

Donald Trump , Mexico border

Chinese tech investors flee Silicon Valley as Trump tightens scrutiny

By Reuters,

New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China’s access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in U.S. technology s...

Technology startups , U.S President Donald Trump , Uber Technologies Inc

Top Jubilee leaders celebrate Murathe’s resignation

By Benjamin Muriuki,

The resignation of David Murathe as Jubilee Vice-Chairman on Sunday was met with mostly joyous reaction from top political leaders who welcomed his ex...

David Murathe , Jubilee Party , Murathe resigns , william ruto