Donald Trump ends 2018 with a Fox News interview — his 41st since inauguration
President Trump is ringing in the new year with his friends at Fox News — literally.
At least 4 dead in Egypt tourist bus bombing near pyramids
At least three Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian tour guide were killed Friday when a roadside bomb struck a tourist bus in Egypt, Prosecutor-General Nabil Sadek announced Friday night , according to state-run Ahram Online.
Trump will stay in DC through the shutdown, incoming chief of staff says
President Donald Trump has canceled his New Year's plans in order to remain in Washington until a deal over border wall funds is reached and the partial government shutdown ends, according to the President's incoming acting chief of staff.
Saudi king shakes up government in wake of Khashoggi killing
Saudi Arabia's King Salman ordered a government reshuffle on Thursday, appointing a new foreign minister and refreshing other top posts, after the global fallout over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Iraq
President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pull out of American troops from neighbouring Syria.
IWC withdrawal: Japan to resume commercial whaling in 2019
Japan has announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) next year, and will resume commercial hunting in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone from July.
Trump's message on Christmas Day: 'It's a disgrace'
In President Donald Trump's Christmas Day telling, the drugs are flowing over the border, the Federal Reserve is imperiling the economy and the Democrats are preparing to harass him with oversight requests.
More populism, growing rifts and further instability ahead in 2019
2019 will be the year of growing rifts. Populists will claim they have the answers; traditionalists will say nothing is wrong they can't fix. But be sure of one thing: Our old, comfortable order is going to change -- and not in an incremental way that we can more or less handle.
Trump rants while 'all alone' in White House on Christmas Eve
It's Christmas in America: The President is home alone in the White House, ranting at his foes inside and outside; an administration lurching deeper into crisis; stock markets are in free fall and the government is paralyzed by a partial shutdown.
Judge orders North Korea to pay Warmbier family $500 million for wrongful death
A federal judge in Washington awarded the parents of Otto Warmbier more than half a billion dollars in a wrongful death suit against the North Korean government, which detained and allegedly tortured the college student over 17 months before returning him to the US last year, where he died days later.
