The US presidential plane Air Force One will pick up the body of former George Bush senior (94), who died on Friday, in Houston and bring him to Washington. President Donald Trump, who first flies back on Saturday night with the Boeing 747 from the G20 summit in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, calls it 'a special tribute.'
US President Donald Trump has declared Wednesday to National Mourning Day, due to the death of former President George H.W. Bush.
Normally the finder of a wallet hopes for a reward. But an American who got back his lost scholarship only got ahead.
Monday evening it is so far: NASA mission Insight must land on Mars. If everything goes according to plan at 20.53 Dutch time the device lands. Then the sample tour of 484 million kilometers of flying has been completed. And the tension is increasing. Space Expo director Rob van den Berg: 'Less than half of the Mars missions succeed.'
Donald Trump's government wants the Supreme Court to rule on its decision to ban transgender people from the US military. Three lower courts had previously prohibited the government from implementing the measure. That is why Washington has asked the court on Friday to examine that case.
The controversial Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud went abroad for the first time since the Khashoggi affair on Thursday evening. He is the first to stop an official visit to the neighboring United Arab Emirates on a journey through 'fraternal Arab countries' as the court describes it in Riyadh.
The death toll from the forest fires at Paradise in California rose to 83. After the fires now floods and mudflows threaten the area, warns sheriff Kory Honea of Butte County.
US President Donald Trump does not rule out that the powerful Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had knowledge of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 'Maybe he had that, and maybe not,' says the president.
Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of e-mails to the employees of the White House last year, government officials and employees through her personal e-mail account. The daughter and advisor of President Trump was in violation, writes The Washington Post.
A judge in Washington State has sentenced 20-year-old Brian Varela to under three years in prison, because... now it comes... raping an 18-year-old girl while she was dying of an overdose.
US President Donald Trump visited the state of California to see the devastation through the severe forest fires with his own eyes. On Saturday, the president visited the area around Paradise, a village that was particularly badly hit.
According to the American intelligence service CIA, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman commissioned the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
China wants to conclude a trade deal with the United States, which may make it possible to abandon further US import duties on Chinese goods. That's what President Donald Trump said.
Against the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, a secret charge has long been filed in the United States.
Security advisor Mira Ricardel will have a new position within the US government, after first lady Melania Trump urged her departure earlier this week. Government spokeswoman Sarah Sanders announced that she should leave the White House.
A British couple who had named his child after Adolf Hitler was found guilty of membership of the National Action terror group by a court on Monday. That neo-Nazi group was banned in 2016 after the members had celebrated the murder of MP Jo Cox (Labor) by a Nazi veteran.
The Provisional Justice Minister Matt Whitaker does not intend to stay aloof from the investigation that special prosecutor Robert Mueller is doing about possible Russian interference in the 2016 American election campaign.
The American president Donald Trump does not assume that he has a conversation with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin at the end of the week in Paris. 'I'm not sure if we will have a meeting in Paris, probably not,' Trump said in Washington on Monday. 'So far we have not arranged anything.'
The assignment for the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from someone from 'the highest circles of the Saudi government', but not from King Salman. The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan writes this in an opinion piece for the American newspaper The Washington Post.
The Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman described the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the days after his disappearance as a dangerous Islamist, member of the Muslim Brotherhood. He said, according to The Washington Post, in a telephone conversation with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and safety advisor John Bolton before Riyadh admitted that the columnist had died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The US military sends 5200 troops to the border with Mexico. These include armed soldiers, a general said at a press conference in Washington. He stated that President Donald Trump made it clear that guarding the border is important for national security.
The United States may announce new import duties in December on all Chinese products and services that have sprung up to date. Preparations would be made in case the reconciliation talks between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about the trade war come to nothing.
The US has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington. National safety advisor John Bolton announced this Friday in Georgian Tbilisi. Bolton was in Moscow the last few days.
An American explosives disposal service is investigating a mail distribution center near Miami in Florida. According to authorities, several mail packages with pipe bombs have been processed there.
The FBI has intercepted bomb letters that were sent to US ex-president Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and news channel CNN. President Donald Trump has been informed. The White House takes the situation 'very seriously', according to an official. The actions are 'contemptible' and the responsible people will pay for it, according to the White House.
In order to make up for the stalled relations between the two countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited his American counterpart Donald Trump to sit down together in Paris next month.
The fiancée of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has reacted on Twitter to the death of her lover. 'They have taken your physical presence from this world. But your beautiful smile will forever be in my soul, 'wrote Hatice Cengiz.
A burglar from Limestone County, Alabama, was so comfortable in the house of a total stranger that he decided to bake an egg, wash his clothes, cut toenails and bathe. When the resident of the house discovered the 31-year-old man, she asked him to leave, but he declared that he was her grandson: 'Do not you know that?'
The US authorities have accused a Russian of disrupting the American political system. The woman, identified as Elena Chushajnova, is suspected of being one of the driving forces behind a plot to influence the 2016 and 2018 elections.
The Guardian wants US President Donald Trump to apologize for the comments he made about the physical attack of a Republican Congressman against a British newspaper reporter. Greg Gianforte beat journalist Ben Jacobs of The Guardian last year.
