Trump Blames North Korea’s ‘Brutal Regime’ for Student’s Death

President Donald Trump on Monday denounced the death of Otto Warmbier, saying the University of Virginia student who spent more than a year imprisoned in North Korea suffered at the hands of a "brutal regime." "At least he got home to his parents," the president said during an event with technology CEOs at the White House, speaking just hours after Warmbier died.

US man Otto Warmbier dies after returning home from being detained in North Korea

A person believed to be Otto Warmbier is transferred from a medical transport airplane after he was brought home from detention in North Korea. Last year, Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labour in North Korea, convicted of subversion after he tearfully confessed he had tried to steal a propaganda banner.

Afghan soldier attacks foreign soldiers, wounding 4

The acquittal of an officer in the death of a Minnesota motorist who volunteered that he had a gun during a traffic stop adds to the worries of African-American gun owners. The acquittal of an officer in the death of a Minnesota motorist who volunteered that he had a gun during a traffic stop adds to the worries of African-American gun owners.

U.S. goes after Chinese firm for laundering North Korea money

The U.S. has moved to seize nearly $2 million from a Chinese company that it says laundered money for North Korea. The Chinese trading firm acted as a front company to quietly move funds through the U.S. financial system for Foreign Trade Bank, a major North Korean lender that's under sanctions, U.S. prosecutors said Thursday.

About 4,000 more US troops to go to Afghanistan

The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed to a third U.S. commander in chief. The deployment will be the largest of American manpower under Donald Trump's young presidency.

Doctors say US student freed by North Korea has brain damage

An American college student who emerged from prison in North Korea in a coma has severe brain damage, but doctors don't know what caused it, a medical team treating him in Ohio said Thursday. The doctors described Otto Warmbier as being in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" but declined to discuss his outlook for improvement, saying such information would be kept confidential.

The myth of the Amazons ‘revealed’ in new book

Trump launches all-out attack on 'Crooked Hillary', saying she smashed phones and bleached servers - but his Russian 'non-dealings' are being investigated as he hits back at obstruction of justice probe Baseball gunman had foster daughter, 17, who committed suicide by dousing her body in gasoline and then lighting herself on fire Woman claims a United Airlines employee woke her up by kicking her in the head while she slept in a Houston airport chapel Otto Warmbier is in a vegetative state: Doctors say freed North Korean detainee has suffered 'extensive loss of brain tissue', likely had a heart attack - and there is NO evidence of botulism Republican congressman says TRUMP is partly to blame for 'demons that have been unleashed' in lead up to baseball shooting Trump reveals Steve Scalise is 'in some trouble' after visiting him and asks for prayers for other critically-wounded victims of ... (more)

Statistics reveal the favorite hobbies of rich and poor

Otto Warmbier has a 'SEVERE neurological injury': Father says there's 'no excuse' for what North Koreans did to his son as he blames Obama for not doing enough to secure his release Munich shooter who critically injured a policewoman after stealing her colleague's gun and firing at her head 'was an AMERICAN tourist' DEADLOCKED! Cosby grins as jury announces they stil can't reach a verdict and judge orders them back to deliberate for fourth day in sex assault trial Kim Kardashian is accused of 'wearing blackface' by furious Twitter users who claim her skin was made 'darker' for new photo released to celebrate her make-up collection Trump reveals Steve Scalise is 'in some trouble' after visiting him and asks for prayers for other critically-wounded victims of the Congress shooter GOP lawmaker and Trump ally says he 'will now be carrying a gun' in the wake of the baseball match shooting ... (more)

Gunman who shot congressman had history of anti-GOP activity

A government official says the suspect in the Virgini... An American college student who was released from a North Korean prison is finally home but in a coma and undergoing treatment at an Ohio hospital. An American college student who was released from a North Korean prison is finally home but in a coma and undergoing treatment at an Ohio hospital.

US soldiers at the site of a car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul on May 31, 2017 – AFP

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official told AFP that Pentagon chief Jim Mattis can now directly adjust troop numbers, though the official would not confirm whether a new "force management level" -- currently at around 8,400 -- had been finalized. "The White House has done the same that it did with Iraq and Syria, which is to grant the secretary of defense the authority to set troop levels," the official said, referring to recent adjustments Trump has approved for the fight against the Islamic State group in those two countries.

Sessions to face questions on Russia, Comey

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, fiercely maintaining he did nothing wrong in meeting twice with the Russian ambassador to the US during President Trump's 2016 campaign and also infuriating Democrats by refusing to detail any conversations he has had with the president. Defiantly adding this: "I recused myself from any investigation into the campaigns for president, but I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false accusations".

Sessions denies third meeting with Russian Federation envoy

Ahead of the hearing there had been suggestions that Sessions might have had a third, unreported, encounter with Kislyak, at the Mayflower Hotel in April 2016, where candidate Trump was giving his first major foreign policy speech. "I recused myself not because of any assertive wrongdoing or any belief that I may have been involved in any wrongdoing in the campaign but because of a Department of Justice regulation ... that regulation states in effect that a Department employee should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they served as a campaign advisor", Sessions told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during a hearing on Tuesday.

Jeff Sessions to Face Long-awaited Senate Grilling on Russia Ties, Comey Firing

His comments came as Christopher Ruddy , chief executive of Newsmax Media and a friend of Donald Trump visited the White House on Monday, said in a TV interview that the president may consider firing Mr Mueller. Mr. Comey said that there were matters with respect to the recusal that were problematic, and he couldn't talk about them.