The attack was in response to the Syrian government’s chemical weapons attack this week.
President Trump spoke from Palm Beach, Fla., on Thursday about military action he ordered after a chemical weapons attack killed scores of people. One Syrian man said he lost at least 25 members of his extended family in the chemical attack on Tuesday, including his wife and twins. President Trump spoke after the United States carried out a missile attack in Syria on Thursday in response to the Syrian government's deadly chemical weapons attack. The idea, analysts say, is to demoralize President Bashar al-Assad’s foes, showing them that their cause is hopeless and that no one will come to their aid.
In bypassing a filibuster, Republicans abandoned long-held practices and will be able to confirm President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil M. Gorsuch, with a simple majority vote.
After the judicial filibuster was put to rest, senators on both sides talked about finding common ground to prove that the chamber still functioned.
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Former government officials said the agency told senior lawmakers last summer that it had information indicating that Russia was working to help get President Trump elected.
In applying for top-secret security clearance, Jared Kushner failed to mention having contacts with the Russian ambassador and the head of a state-owned bank.
Mr. Nunes, the Intelligence Committee chairman, said his decision came after “left-wing activist groups” filed accusations against him with the Office of Congressional Ethics.
The escalating feud between the chief White House strategist and the president’s son-in-law reflects a larger struggle to guide the direction of the Trump presidency.
In his first interview since being ousted as the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara described a series of events preceding his firing that still has him confused about why it happened.
President Trump planned to sign an executive order targeting steel dumping, a measure aimed at China and a potential victory for his hard-line advisers.
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Mrs. Clinton called for an independent investigation into Russian involvement in the election and spared no criticism of the Trump White House during remarks at a conference.
Advertisers are in the cross hairs of populist activists, aided by social media, who are demanding that brands quickly take positions on issues.
Twitter said it had a received a summons to reveal the owner of a so-called alt-account, whose owners say they are dissident current or former government workers.
For over half a century, Mr. Rickles made outrageously derisive comments about people’s looks, their ethnicity or anything else he could think of.
High-risk strains of the virus — a cause of cervical and vaginal cancers, and cancer of the penis — infect 25.1 percent of men and 20.4 percent of women.
In 360, watch the littlest dancers at a community audition in Queens for the School of American Ballet. The school has diversified its student body. Members of a unit struggling to curb the jungle’s destruction include an environmental activist, an Arctic oceanographer and a science teacher.
As gusts of up to 40 miles per hour bedeviled most players, Hoffman shot a remarkable seven-under-par 65, birdieing nine holes, including all four par-3s.
Lifting an earlier moratorium, the agency said the company could report the risks for 10 diseases under certain controls.
The electric-car maker is the latest company to become a market darling based not on what it has achieved but on a vision of a dominant future.
The news added to an already tense atmosphere the second-biggest city in Russia, which until Monday had been spared from any major terrorist attacks.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole find the human factor in a repetitive musical about battling cosmetics magnates.
The future president participated in a popular, if dangerous, subway pastime.
New rules taking effect on Thursday require large companies to publish by April 2018 the average salaries of the men and the women they employ.
Shortly before a deadline, both sides agreed to prolong discussions, a day after employees staged a walkout for the first time in 15 years.
Johnson, the world’s top-ranked golfer, sustained a lower back injury in a fall down the stairs of his rental home near the course Wednesday.
The heavily debated case pit the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit against stiff truancy laws in a nation where school attendance is compulsory.
While studying an artificial reef made from a sunken ship, researchers found a mollusk that may never have been seen before. It could threaten coral in the Florida Keys.
Vivek Shanbhag’s “Ghachar Ghochar” is the first novel translated into English from an Indian language spoken by 40 million people and published here.
Regardless of their sexual orientation, many in the Netherlands rallied in defense of two men who described being targeted by youths in the city of Arnhem.
The chairman of Ferragamo USA recommends winery visits, hiking and biking, and beach time. (He also likes winter. No crowds.)
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