THE biggest winter storm of the year is poised to strike the United States, with meteorologists predicting 12 inches to 18 inches of snowfall on the northeast coast of the US with Washington, New York and Philadelphia braced for snow chaos.more
The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump's election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant's biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.more
A man has shot dead his former wife at a Southern California mall and then turned the gun on himself. Police say the 33-year-old gunman was taken to a hospital on Saturday. The Ventura County Star newspaper reports that the Los Angeles-area resident is in critical condition.more
At least six people have been killed and nine others hurt after a footbridge collapsed near Florida International University in Miami. Police announced the deaths after rescuers spent the night searching for victims trapped beneath the structure.more
"Space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea," Donald Trump told a group of US Marines yesterday. "We may even have a Space Force, develop another one, Space Force".more
The great promise of self-driving cars is that they will save innumerable lives by removing the most fallible and unpredictable element from vehicle traffic: the human.more
Russian land troops are prepared to conduct a conventional war in Ukraine and a hybrid war in the Baltic States, although Western leaders believe that the opposite is true - the report of the Washington Independent Institute of War Studies (ISW).more
A man who apparently swiped Frances McDormand's Oscar trophy boasted about it on Facebook, claiming he won it for music, before being arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft.more
Theresa May has expressed the UK's "deep concern" at Donald Trump's decision to raise tariffs on steel and aluminium. The Prime Minister raised the issue during a call with the US President on Sunday afternoon.more
Polish children in the New York district of Queens will soon be able to study in two languages at the same time. The public school No. 71 at Ridgewood became interested in the curriculum of all subjects in Polish and English.more
President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened the European Union with increased taxes on automobile imports while slamming the "very stupid trade deals and policies" struck by his predecessors, as his administration continues to defend his decision this week to impose unilateral tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.more
Police in the US state of Michigan are hunting for a gunman who shot and killed two people on a college campus.
The victims at Central Michigan University were not students and the altercation sprang from a domestic dispute, said investigators.more
An eight-member high-level delegation from North Korea told South Korea's President Moon Jae-in Sunday afternoon before attending the Olympics closing ceremony that it was interested in talking with the United States.more
President Trump late Saturday night criticized the FBI for failing to act on a tip that might have prevented the recent massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla., and said the bureau was devoting too much time to its investigation of his presidential campaign.more
Aer Lingus have just announced a flash sale with flights to America for as little as EUR 159. But the cheap fares won't be around long so if you want to nab a seat you'll have to act quick. To celebrate Pancake Tuesday, the airline dropped EUR100 off round trips to destinations including New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles and Seattle.more
After several years abroad, Victoria Cambranes came back to a changed Greenpoint. She has no political experience, but was so dissatisfied with local governance that she decided to take matters into her own hands.more
Rugged terrain and poor conditions are hindering the rescue of four survivors of a deadly helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, a police official says.more
Chicago commuters, there's no other way to put this: Your drive Friday is going to be a bear. The first part of a narrow band of heavy snow arrived Thursday night at the United States' third-largest city by population. Schools will be closed as millions see accumulations of 8 to 14 inches by late Friday.more
He is the world's most persistent illegal immigrant: One Mexican managed to get deported 44 times in 15 years - which means he also managed to sneak back across the border at least that many times.more
President reportedly seeks parade in model of France's Bastille Day celebration, prompting one veterans' group to call him 'a wannabe banana republic strongman'.more
