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Over 50 feared dead in Thai boat capsizing

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:19:57 -0400

Thai rescuers deployed helicopters on Friday in a search for 29 people missing after the sinking of a boat carrying Chinese tourists, with one official saying he feared "no chance" of any more survivors, which would mean a death toll of nearly 60.

100 years of American presidents in Britain

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 08:14:55 -0400

U.S. President Donald Trump makes his first official trip to the United Kingdom on Wednesday. Here is a century of visits from his predecessors, through good times and harder. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

Scott Pruitt resigns as EPA administrator

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 03:31:52 -0400

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Thursday that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has resigned after months of scrutiny around his spending habits and conduct.

U.S. tariffs on China kick in, Beijing responds

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:57:41 -0400

U.S. tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese imports take effect, and with Beijing vowing to respond in kind, the world's two biggest economies took a high-stakes turn toward all-out trade conflict.

Trade threats spark auto-shipping frenzy

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:15:03 -0400

Automakers are scrambling to ship vehicles to the United States to pre-empt possible higher tariffs, according to port data, port officials and logistics companies.

China: U.S. 'opening fire' on world with trade

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 05:11:17 -0400

The United States is 'opening fire' on the world with its threatened tariffs, China warned on Thursday, saying it will respond the instant U.S. measures go into effect as the two countries locked horns in a bitter trade dispute.

Woman plucked from under Lady Liberty's foot

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 02:02:06 -0400

A woman who scaled the Statue of Liberty's stone pedestal was snatched by police officers and lowered to safety on Wednesday, ending a standoff that led to the evacuation of the New York Harbor landmark on Independence Day.

Another UK pair poisoned by deadly nerve agent

Thu, 05 Jul 2018 01:44:57 -0400

A man and woman in the U.K. are in critical condition after being poisoned with the same nerve agent that struck down former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March, according to British counter-terrorism.

VERBATIM: UK couple poisoned by deadly nerve agent

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 18:22:22 -0400

Two British citizens were critically ill in hospital on Wednesday after they were poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent which struck down a former Russian agent and his daughter in March, Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer said.

Scorching heat meets Fourth of July

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 17:06:35 -0400

Millions of Americans in the Midwest and on the East coast are facing brutally hot temperatures as they celebrate Independence Day.

Trade war threatens China love of U.S. barbecue

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:24:28 -0400

Trade tensions are running high as the calendar moves closer to Friday, when $34 billion in tit-for-tat tariffs are set to go in effect in a trade war between the U.S. and China.

If Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade - what then?

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:02:09 -0400

If a new conservative justice on the Supreme Court results in the overturning of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, Lawrence Hurley says the outright abortion ban conservatives hope for could still prove elusive.

Exclusive: China asks EU to form anti-U.S. alliance

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 05:19:17 -0400

China is putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against President Donald Trump’s trade policies at a summit later this month but is facing resistance, European officials said.

Dive lessons begin for Thai team trapped in cave

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 04:28:10 -0400

Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash courses in swimming and diving on Wednesday as part of preparations to extract a young soccer squad trapped in a cave and keen to end a harrowing 11-day ordeal.

Woman confronts Scott Pruitt at D.C. restaurant

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 01:13:18 -0400

A woman carrying her young son approached Scott Pruitt, the scandal-hit chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at a Washington restaurant and politely asked him to resign. Pruitt is the latest Trump official to be confronted in public in a matter of weeks.