Tag Archives: U.S.

The U.S. Senate has passed a $ 36.5-billion emergency aid measure to refill disaster accounts, provide a much-needed cash infusion to Puerto Rico and bail out the federal flood insurance program. CBC | World News

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took the Trump administration’s case for isolating and containing Iran in the Middle East and beyond to two Gulf Arab nations on Sunday, pushing for Saudi Arabia and Iraq to unite to counter growing Iranian assertiveness. CBC | World News

All five living former U.S. presidents will be attending a concert Saturday night in a Texas college town, raising money for relief efforts from Hurricane Harvey’s, Irma’s and Maria’s devastation in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. CBC | World News

U.S. naval commanders on Saturday reiterated Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defend South Korea against North Korean threats as an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier visited a South Korean port following a joint naval drill. CBC | World News

In 2014, numbness spread through all four of Chris Allen’s limbs within minutes of climbing into bed at the same Havana hotel where American government workers were later targeted. Convinced the incidents must be related, Allen joined a growing list of private U.S. citizens asking the same alarming but unanswerable question: Were we victims, too? CBC | World News

President Donald Trump has frequently criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling of the 2012 ambush in Libya that led to the death of U.S. citizens, and now – following the recent deaths of American soldiers in Niger – politicians and pundits are referring to the event as “Trump’s Benghazi.” On October 4, during a routine patrol on the ...

In the latest threat of World War Three to come out of North Korea, the Kim Jong-un regime on Wednesday warned the United States that an “unimaginable strike” could come at any time, even as the U.S. and South Korea planned a joint military drill known as Courageous Channel, a dress rehearsal for a mass evacuation of Americans in the ...

Key U.S. senators reached a breakthrough deal on resuming federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump has halted. Insurers had warned that unless the money is quickly restored, premiums will go up. Trump spoke favorably about the bipartisan compromise, which is still likely to face opposition in Congress. CBC | World News

Five Canadians — along with three U.S. residents and two Chinese nationals — are indicted by the U.S. Justice Department on charges of making and selling highly addictive fentanyl to Americans over the internet. CBC | World News

U.S. army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a Taliban captive for five years after abandoning his post in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty Monday to desertion and misbehaviour-before-the-enemy charges that could put him in prison for life. CBC | World News