Tag Archives: U.S.

President Donald Trump informs Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other Arab leaders by phone that he intends to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a holy city whose Israeli-annexed eastern sector the Palestinians seek as a future capital. CBC | World News

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries. CBC | World News

The U.S. Senate narrowly approved a tax overhaul on Saturday, moving Republicans and President Donald Trump a big step closer to their goal of slashing taxes for businesses and the rich while offering everyday Americans a mixed bag of changes. CBC | World News

Canadian and U.S. officials quietly held exercises last spring to practice dealing with worst-case nuclear scenarios running through simulated attacks on both sides of the border, CBC News has learned. CBC | World News

The United States warned the North Korean leadership that it would “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out, after Pyongyang test fired its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile, putting the U.S. mainland within range. CBC | World News

A federal jury has found a suspected Libyan militant not guilty of the most serious charges stemming from the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. CBC | World News

North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, two U.S. government sources say, a week after U.S. President Donald Trump put the North back on a U.S. list of countries that it says support terrorism. CBC | World News

The FBI failed to notify scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year that the targets were in the Kremlin’s crosshairs, The Associated Press has found. CBC | World News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill allowing Russia to register international media outlets as foreign agents in a quid pro quo to the U.S. demand made to a Kremlin-funded TV channel. CBC | World News

As Haitians look to the end of the protected status that allowed them to live and work in the U.S., a Canadian MP meets with local officials in New York to stress that coming to Canada won’t solve Haitians’ problems. CBC | World News