A Turkish delegation to Washington refused to commit to releasing an American pastor, as both sides sought a way out of an escalating feud, a U.S. official said. Turkey raised concerns about a state-run lender, Halkbank, that’s under investigation for
Actor granted Russian citizenship in 2016 will facilitate relations with US Russia has appointed action movie star Steven Seagal as a special envoy for humanitarian ties with the United States. The foreign ministry announced the move on Saturday on its
(CNN)Nearly 40,000 Americans die from preventable asbestos-caused diseases every year, yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) still hasn’t banned this toxic substance. The EPA attempted to ban asbestos in 1989 but was sued by Corrosion Proof Fittings — a company
In this Nov. 27, 2013 photo, plastic newspaper boxes for The Village Voice stand along a Manhattan sidewalk in New York. (AP) A year after halting its print publications, the infamous weekly The Village Voice is folding due to financial
Donald Trump with the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoan, at the Nato headquarters in Brussels. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AP Consider our political plight. The far right is in government in Austria. Polls suggest it is on the verge of becoming
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Monday that he does not know whether Trump would ever pardon Michael Cohen, the President’s embattled ex-lawyer currently under criminal investigation. “Nobody should proceed on the assumption that President Trump’s going to
(CNN)Rudy Giuliani is working with foreign clients as he continues to advise President Donald Trump on the Russia investigation, which raises conflict of interest and federal ethics issues, according to a new report. Lobbying experts told the Post that some
From London to Sydney and Beijing to New York, house prices in some of the world’s most sought-after cities are heading south. Tax changes to damp demand, values out of kilter with affordability and tougher lending standards have combined to
Piotr Borodacz (left), with his sister, Julia, and father, Artur. Photograph: Matthew Luxmoore Last November, Borodacz stood shoulder-to-shoulder in Warsaw with 60,000 fellow Poles from moderate Law and Justice supporters to football hooligans and neo-Nazis in the largest Independence Day