A conservative advocacy group in the U.S. became the first group Tuesday to sue to block President Barack Obama’s executive order calling for more background checks for gun buyers. Freedom Watch, which frequently contests actions taken by the Democratic president, contends that Obama did not have the legal authority to expand the government’s background checks […]
Republican U.S. presidential front-runner Donald Trump is drawing rebukes from across the world for proposing a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States until the country’s leaders can “figure out what is going on” about possible new terrorist attacks. White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Tuesday called Trump’s rhetoric “offensive and toxic,” […]
The Islamic State group has released a photo of what it claims is the bomb that took down a Russian jetliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month and says it targeted the plane because of Moscow’s aerial bombardment in Syria. The photo, appearing on the extremist group’s official online English-language magazine Dabiq, shows a yellow […]
U.S. President Barack Obama says that Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate looking to succeed him, made “a mistake” in using a private email server while she served as his secretary of state, but that it did not endanger national security. Obama, in an interview aired Sunday night on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” said Clinton […]