US, Europe at odds over Revolutionary Guard-backed airline

An Iranian airline backed by the country's notorious Revolutionary Guard has a... WASHINGTON - An Iranian airline, backed by the country's notorious Revolutionary Guard and used to ferry weapons and fighters to support Syria's government, has acquired rights to fly commercial routes in more than a dozen European and Asian countries in spite of U.S. terror-related sanctions. The agreement Iran and six other world powers signed last year ended some of the sanctions that had punished and isolated Iran for its nuclear program.

No deal on Syria as Obama and Putin meet

US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met Monday as talks between their governments on ending violence in Syria ended without an agreement. The two leaders conversed on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit here for ninety minutes, a senior US official said, and worked to clarify gaps in negotiations over on the Syrian crisis.

12 Reasons Why This Was Hillary Clinton’s Worst Week Ever

Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash made allegations of corruption and pay-for-play - that Hillary Clinton leveraged her power as Secretary of State to benefit big donors to the Clinton Foundation - and that scandal has simmered since before the book's release last May. Early on, several establishment news outlets investigated the narratives of Clinton Cash and confirmed many of its findings. Leaked documents from the Democratic National Committee showed that the party deemed the Clinton Foundation a vulnerability for Clinton; the global charity, worth billions, received zero mentions during the week-long Democratic National Convention.

July 4 message from Putin to Obama: Let’s have better ties

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday in a July Fourth message to President Barack Obama that he hopes ties between the two countries will get back on track. Relations between Moscow and Washington hit a post-Cold War low in 2014, when Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and threw its weight behind separatists in eastern Ukraine.