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A federal judge in New York on Monday tossed out a lawsuit by Donald Trump in which he claimed he had been defamed by a former magazine columnist after she won a sex abuse case against him. The former president was found liable in May for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in a New York department store in the 1990s ...

Severe and highly destructive storms swept through the easteern United States on Monday, resulting in the cancellation or delay of numerous flights and leaving over 1.1 million homs and businesses without power. These storms brought with them a range of hazardous conditions, including potential tornadoes, hail, and lightning. Rain began falling in the Washington area shortly after 5 p.m., and ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s parliamentary membership has been restored, days after the Supreme Court put on hold his conviction in a 2019 defamation case over his ‘Modi surname’ remarks. A notification from the Lok Sabha secretariat on Monday morning read that Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as a Lok Sabha member stood revoked. Rahul Gandhi reached Parliament where the Monsoon session is ...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on social media Wednesday that he and his wife Sophie are separating after 18 years of marriage, reports CBS News. “After many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate,” Trudeau wrote on Instagram. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau posted a similar message on her account. The couple has three children — 15-year-old ...

Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday over his efforts to upend the results of the 2020 US election — the most serious legal threat yet to the former president as he campaigns to return to the White House. It is the third criminal indictment of the 77-year-old Trump since March and charges him with three counts of conspiracy and one ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has told African leaders in St Petersburg that Russia would send up to 50,000 tons of grain for free to six African countries. “In the coming months, we will be able to ensure free supplies of 25,000 to 50,000 tons of grain to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Central African Republic and Eritrea,” he said in ...

Thousands of Shiite Muslims were allowed to hold a religious procession marking the Muslim month of Muharram in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s main city on Thursday for the first time since an anti-India rebellion broke out in the disputed region more than three decades ago, reports AP. The participants, mostly wearing black clothes, beat their chests and recited elegies in the commercial ...

Extreme heat waves across three continents this month were made significantly more likely by the human-caused climate crisis, according to a new analysis released Tuesday as temperatures are still blazing in parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The “heat hell” searing parts of the United States and southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change, while climate change made ...

US President Biden has chosen a female admiral to lead the US Navy – the first time a woman has been nominated to head a Pentagon military service branch. Lisa Franchetti is a former head of the US 6th Fleet and US naval forces in South Korea, and has also served as an aircraft carrier strike commander. Her nomination by ...

Swathes of Europe baked Tuesday in a heatwave trailed by wildfires and health warnings, as parts of Asia and the United States also suffered under extreme weather. Firefighters battled blazes in parts of Greece and the Canary Islands, Spain issued heat alerts while some children in Italy’s Sardinia were warned away from sports for safety reasons. “You can’t be in ...