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.
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.
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.
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.
The US authorities are investigating child abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. Seven of the eight dioceses in the state say they are summoned to hand over documents, reports American media.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees no reason to revise relations with Saudi Arabia. He said Thursday that Russia does not have enough information about the unexplained disappearance of a Saudi journalist to justify a review of ties with Riyadh.
Pat Cipollone becomes the new legal adviser to the White House. He succeeds Donald McGahn, who will soon depart from the White House. This was confirmed by US President Donald Trump in an interview with news agency AP.
The Turkish police will search the home of the Saudi consul in Istanbul on Tuesday. This is a day after the police searched the Saudi consulate for nine hours. According to reports from Turkish media, detectives also return Tuesday at the consulate for further investigation. The consul general himself, Cemal Kasikci, has not yet been questioned.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died when he was questioned at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That statement Saudi Arabia will give for the death of Khashoggi, CNN reports on the basis of anonymous sources.
US President Donald Trump says he will 'severely punish Saudi Arabia' if the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That said in an interview with the station CBS.
After the release of the American preacher Andrew Brunson and his departure from Turkey, the presidents of Turkey and the United States can get together again through Twitter. Brunson, who was held in Turkey for about two years on suspected ties with terror organizations until Friday afternoon, was at the center of a serious dispute between Ankara and Washington.
America is plagued by a wave of overdoses by synthetic weed. In the capital Washington DC, 100 overdoses per week are no exception. Emergency services can barely handle the situation. It is the last resort in a long row of drugs and an opiate crisis that holds the US in its grip.
Employees of the Turkish government have told colleagues from the United States that they have video and audio evidence that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Americans say to The Washington Post that especially the audio evidence is very strong. It would be heard that Khashoggi is arrested, tortured and eventually killed and cut into pieces.
The highest court of the American state of Washington has forbidden the execution of the death penalty. The judges unanimously ruled that the death penalty is applied 'arbitrarily' and in a discriminatory manner.
In Rockland County in the US state of New York, a man was arrested who had plans to drop a bomb on Washington's election day in November. The man has been charged with making a bomb, planning a bomb attack and transporting explosive materials.
The driver who crashed Saturday with a limousine in New York, where twenty people were killed, did not have a valid driver's license. The car was also rejected a month ago.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a brief visit to Pyongyang, worked out Kim Jong-un with 'options' for a new summit between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader. Washington called it a constructive conversation in which, among other things, the location and the date were discussed. It is 'another step forward', the American department reported without going into details.
