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Donald Trump’s charitable foundation — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s office. Under the laws...

US president-elect, in his first interview since victory, says he plans to deport or jail undocumented foreigners. US president-elect Donald Trump said he planned to immediately deport or jail as many as three million undocumented immigrants, as he set out his priorities in the first...

Two items of news from Somalia — the Trump administration’s lowering the level of accountability for U.S. bomb and drone attacks, and the onset of famine — are not unrelated. The country has been the site of civil war, enhanced by intense international involvement, since...

The Burma-Shave-style signs lining the street next to Steve Sorensen’s white clapboard house don’t mince words. “Take your Muslim Somalian diaspora and put it where the sun doesn’t shine!!!” the cheery red-and-white messages proclaim. Sorensen, a retired former federal VA worker who’s lived in St. Cloud...

US President-elect Donald Trump got plenty of attention -- but not the kind he was looking for -- after a tweet calling out China for its seizure of an unmanned US naval probe. "China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters -- rips...

By Ricardo Lopez She filed reports of threats, bigotry with two Washington, D.C., agencies. State Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, DFL-Minneapolis, said Monday that she reported to Washington, D.C., authorities an incident from last week in which she said she was harassed and threatened by a cabdriver. In a...

Heather Nauert, US state department spokesperson, said on Thursday the US would establish an "observer mission" to replace its representation at the Paris-based agency. In a statement announcing its withdrawal, Israel called the US administration's decision "courageous and moral", and accused UNESCO of becoming a...

By Jim Brunner ,Jessica Lee and David Gutman A federal judge in Seattle on Friday ordered a national halt to enforcement of President Trump’s controversial travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The White House vowed to appeal the decision immediately. In a stunning rebuke, a federal...

At least six mosques in the US states of California and Georgia have received letters attacking Muslims. Included in the hate mail is a prediction that President-elect Donald Trump will ethnically cleanse Muslims from the US. SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the US presidential election, voicing hope that joint work will resolve the crisis in bilateral ties, the Kremlin said Wednesday.  President Putin sent a telegram to Donald Trump, congratulating him on his victory in the US presidential...