In a sharply worded speech Thursday, the president announced two new immigration policies that are expected to be met with lawsuits in federal court. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump delivered a sharply worded speech on immigration Thursday, vowing to hold undocumented immigrants in detention until they could be deported and to block asylum seekers from claiming asylum if they are caught […]

Turkey has given its first official statement on how it believes writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed, saying he was immediately strangled. The statement follows weeks of media reports about the murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. Turkey has yet to provide evidence. Chief prosecutor Irfan Fidan said a meeting with his […]

The US mid-term elections in one week’s time will help define the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency. Americans will vote for members of both chambers of Congress, as well as for governors in 36 out of 50 states. Between now and then, we’ll bring you updates and all the best analysis every weekday in this […]

  A brand-new jet airliner carrying 189 passengers and crew crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from Indonesia’s capital on Monday, prompting a major effort in the region that soon turned from rescue to recovery when officials disclosed there were likely no survivors. The Lion Air Boeing 737 MAX-8 aircraft had just taken off from Jakarta […]

A gunman has entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and opened fire, killing 11 people. Six people were injured, among them four police officers, in the attack on the Tree of Life Congregation in Squirrel Hill. The officers are in a stable condition. The suspect has been named as Robert Bowers, 46. He has been described as […]

Analysis: With a mail bomb suspect in custody, Trump finds himself in a political box of his own making. WASHINGTON — With the capture of a suspect in the mail-bomb deliveries to prominent Democrats and CNN, President Donald Trump finds himself — with less than two weeks to go until the midterm elections — in a political […]

A 56-year-old man has been arrested in Florida in connection with a mail-bombing campaign aimed at critics of US President Donald Trump. US officials named the man as Cesar Sayoc, saying that more arrests could follow. Mr Trump said the acts were “despicable and have no place in our country”, and promised “swift and certain […]

Dutch cyclists rode down the world’s first bike path made entirely of discarded plastic this week, in a move aimed at reducing the millions of tonnes wasted every year. The 30-metre (100-ft) cycling path in the 1,300-year-old northern town of Zwolle contains the equivalent of 500,000 plastic bottle caps and is estimated to be two […]

First Read is your briefing from “Meet the Press” and the NBC Political Unit on the day’s most important political stories and why they matter. WASHINGTON — After the discovery that pipe bombs were sent to prominent Democrats (including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and now Joe Biden) and to CNN, President Donald Trump talked about civility and unity […]

Suspected explosive devices were sent to former US President Barack Obama and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the US Secret Service has said. It comes two days after a bomb was found at the home of liberal philanthropist and financier George Soros in the suburbs of New York City. The devices were discovered by technicians […]