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Brett McGurk said the last road out of Mosul had been cut off, trapping so-called Islamic State.

In normal times, White House press briefings make for boring television. Robert Gibbs, Jay Carney, and Josh Earnest, the three generic-looking white guys who served as successive press secretaries under President Barack ...

Edward O’Callaghan, a former federal prosecutor who assisted President Trump’s transition team, is also in the running to replace ousted US Attorney Preet Bharara, sources ​told The Post on Sunday. O’Callaghan, a...

Many people at the landfill had been scavenging items to make a living, but others live there

Israeli police says troops have shot and killed a Palestinian assailant who stabbed two policemen in the Old City in Jerusalem. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says the assailant attacked the …

The number of Syrian children maimed, killed or recruited to fight increased dramatically over the past year.

Mohamedou Slahi gives an uncensored account of the now-illegal enhanced interrogation he endured

Fire officials in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, are blaming a fire that killed one girl and left two others in critical condition on a rechargeable hoverboard. On Friday night, the family heard "sizzling and cracking" coming...

Experts say the Pentagon has limited options in Syria

President Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago for a two-day visit next month, according to a report. Trump and Xi will meet at the president's Palm Beach, Fla., resort -- which he's dubbed the "Win...

Trump and his White House don’t argue on the merits. They attack the institutions that come up with facts and arguments they don’t like. They even do it preemptively. Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spice...

Smartphones are often seen as a cause of sedentary time, not a solution to it. But new research suggests that playing the smartphone game Pokémon Go actually helps people get more exercise. In the game, people actively ...

A veteran Republican congressman says America can't restore "our civilization with somebody else's babies."

Officials say far more than the expected 160,000 to 170,000 fans showed up for the concert by Indio Solari

A further 13 pedestrians were injured as the coach sped away from the scene of an initial accident

The dramatic downfall of President Park Geun-hye comes at a time of heightened regional tension over South Korea's deployment of a controversial US missile defense system.

Winds exceeding 100km blew riders off their bikes and sent portable toilets careening across the road before organisers cancelled the event Winds of up to 100km an hour that blew competitors off their bikes have forced o...

Countries like Venezuela, Russia and China are using Washington's 'war on the media' to justify their own erosion of the free press George W Bush's 'war on terror' gave cover to despots around the world - from China, to ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger dismissed rumors he is planning to run for U.S. Senate in 2018, saying he instead plans to focus on redistricting reform across the country. Last week, Politico reported that the former California g...

Preet Bharara was fired while his office was reaching out to witnesses in an investigation into one of President Donald Trump’s favorite news outlets, Fox News, New York Magazine reports. Bharara, the former U.S. attor...

A prosecutor in Poland says that evidence shows without doubt that a Minnesota man was a Nazi unit commander suspected of contributing to the death of 44 Poles. Robert Janicki said that various evidence gathered in years...

"I'd like to see an America that's so homogenous that we look a lot the same"