TAORMINA, Italy -- Donald Trump made no secret during the presidential campaign of his disdain for America's trading partners, his skepticism of longtime alliances and his eagerness to refocus U.S. foreign policy on the single-minded pursuit of American security.

That was the largely the president the world got as Trump made his way through the...Read more

MUMBAI, India -- Stone-throwing protesters clashed with security forces across the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Saturday after Indian soldiers killed eight suspected militants as part of a months-long crackdown in the disputed Himalayan territory.

At least one civilian was killed as police forces tried to subdue the protesters, and ...Read more

TEL AVIV--Hundreds of Palestinians jailed in Israeli prisons ended a 6-week-old hunger strike Saturday that raised tensions with Israel while marking the re-emergence of a popular Palestinian politician serving multiple life terms for murder.

Led by Marwan Barghouti, a militant from the ruling Fatah party and a political rival to Palestinian ...Read more

LONDON ––Prime Minister Theresa May said the United Kingdom's terrorism threat level has been lowered to "severe" from "critical" after arrests related to the May 22 attack in Manchester.

May led a meeting of the government's emergency committee Saturday, during which she received an update from police and security services on the ...Read more

MINYA, Egypt -- Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus loaded with Coptic Christians the day before near the southern city of Minya, which officials said killed 29 people.

"A security team of caliphate soldiers set up an ambush for dozens of Christians as they headed to the church of St. Samuel," the militant group said ...Read more

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Donald Trump described Muslims as sick people who have hatred on their minds and he proposed banning them from entering the United States.

Yet many people in Saudi Arabia, a nation considered the birthplace of Islam where citizens are required to be Muslim, don't hold his words against him.

In more than a dozen ...Read more

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting an above-normal 2017 Atlantic Hurricane season, with five to nine hurricanes -- two to four of them Category 3 (winds at least 111 mph) or stronger. The forecast calls for 11 to 17 tropical systems (winds a least 39 mph).

The Atlantic Hurricane Season begins June 1 and runs until...Read more

NEW YORK –– Donald Trump continued to distance himself from fellow leaders over climate change at the Group of Seven summit, and said he'll determine next week whether to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement.

"I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord next week," the president said in a Twitter post Saturday.

Trump, who...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Four of the nation's commuter railroads are not on track to meet an end-of-next-year deadline to fully implement a collision-avoidance system Congress required nearly a decade ago.

Three of the country's largest freight railroads will not be able to finish their systems until 2020, according to reports filed this month with the ...Read more

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Republicans in Atlanta's northern suburbs can sleep just a little bit easier after GOP candidate Greg Gianforte avoided electoral disaster here Thursday evening.

But the former technology executive's single-digit victory in this vast state of only 1 million people -- which backed Donald Trump for president by more than 20 ...Read more

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Rows of men dressed in identical white robes and headdresses silently stared at computer screens as Donald Trump, the Saudi king and the president of Egypt placed their hands on a glowing orb.

The movie-set visuals were in honor of a new center in Riyadh to combat the ideologies behind terrorism. Technology is ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. national security adviser to former President Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis, died on Friday at 89, his daughter has confirmed.

"My father passed away peacefully tonight. He was known to his friends as Zbig, to his grandchildren as Chief and to his wife as the enduring love of her life," Mika...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Post reported Friday that Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, suggested setting up a secret and secure communications channel between the U.S. president's transition team and Moscow, in December discussions with the Russian ambassador.

The report is the latest allegation of potential collusion between Trump's ...Read more

DANVILLE, Calif. -- San Ramon Valley Unified School District officials are being blamed for doing next to nothing when a 16-year-old student was filmed with her pants down in the girls bathroom, and the cellphone video was posted on Instagram.

The perpetrator, who is a 17-year-old girl and star athlete at San Ramon Valley High School, confessed...Read more

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is investigating a reported incident of alligator abuse in Beaufort County, state officials confirmed Friday.

Beaufort County officers from DNR's Law Enforcement Division are investigating reports that a group of teenagers abused a baby alligator and poured beer down...Read more

TAORMINA, Italy -- By the time President Donald Trump sat down with the leaders of the world's other industrialized powers at a former monastery here Friday, he already had met and spent time with each individually. The mood around the circular table was one of a "family dinner," the White House said, with discussions ranging from terrorism and ...Read more

Texans: Ready to hunt hogs from hot air balloons?

AUSTIN, Texas -- Hot air balloons aren't just tourist attractions any more.

Soon, they may be the newest way to reduce the feral hog and coyote population in Texas.

A bill to let Texans hunt feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons ricocheted through the House and Senate and now heads to ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Rep. Dick Gephardt of St. Louis has stopped lobbying for the government of Turkey, according to a filing with the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

That news comes amid growing calls for action against Turkish security officers who were shown on video attacking protesters in front of that country's ambassador's ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- In a continuing power struggle with Republican lawmakers at the helm of the General Assembly, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday filed another lawsuit in state court, accusing the legislative leaders of trying to strip him of power to appoint state Court of Appeals judges and N.C. Industrial Commission members.

The ...Read more