Ten American sailors are reported missing and five injured after the U.S. Navy destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant ship east of Singapore, near the Strait of Malacca. The U.S. 7th Fleet released a statement early Monday that the guided-missile destroyer collided with the Liberian-flagged Alnic MC at about 6:20 a.m. local […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it has called off the search for three U.S. Marines who are missing after their tilt-rotor aircraft crashed into the sea Saturday off Australia’s east coast. Twenty-three other people aboard the MV-22 Osprey have been rescued. A Marine Corps statement says they have begun a recovery effort in coordination with […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has effectively blocked President Donald Trump from making any appointments while the lawmakers are on their August break. The politicians have agreed to a procedural quirk known as pro forma sessions — a series of brief meetings that will technically keep the Senate in session. Senators took the action after Trump’s […]
U.S. President Donald Trump told the New York Times that if a special prosecutor investigating Russia’s influence on last year’s presidential election and possible collusion with his campaign expands the probe to look at Trump’s family finances unrelated to Russia, that would cross the line of what is acceptable. “I would say yes,” Trump said when asked […]