The Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed on the largest reform of the American tax system in more than 30 years. The plan states, among other things, that the profit tax will be reduced from 35 to 21 percent from the start of 2018.
The supreme boss of the United Nations has called for more ways to communicate with North Korea. Secretary General António Guterres warned the UN Security Council that the combination of 'misplaced hubris', 'dangerous rhetoric' and the 'lack of communication channels' increases the likelihood of conflict.
US President Donald Trump has called on his Republican party colleague Roy Moore to admit his losses in the Senate election in the state of Alabama.
Our own solar system with eight planets around a single star has long been special, but now 2545 light years of the earth have found its equal. That is what NASA announced on Thursday. Thanks to analysis of data from the Kepler space telescope, the eighth planet of Kepler-90, a sun-like celestial body, has been discovered.
US Vice President Mike Pence is planning a planned trip to the Middle East. The Republican remains for the security in the US, because he may be needed in the Senate. 'We probably do not need his voice. We are just not waiting for a scenario in which he is on the other side of the world and has to return ', said a senior government official.
Russian President Putin has warned the United States on Thursday not to carry out a rocket attack on North Korea. That would have catastrophic consequences, stressed the Russian leader.
The American senator John McCain (81) was admitted to the Walter Reed hospital just outside of Washington on Wednesday evening (local time). McCain struggles, according to a communiqué from the hospital, with the side effects of the medications he has received since the treatment of a brain tumor that he found last summer.
The US Secretary of State Rod Rosenstein (Justice) sees no reason to dismiss the special prosecutor charged with investigating possible Russian influence on the elections. 'If I thought he was doing something inappropriate, I would intervene,' Rosenstein said to a committee of the House of Representatives.
The American president Donald Trump says he is dependent on social media to bring out facts. Many large, traditional media have become 'a joke,' he twittered.
The high-ranking FBI agent Peter Strzok was kicked out of office in July after it turned out that last year during a research presidential candidate Donald Trump in text messages, among others, 'an idiot'; called. His female colleague Lisa Page, a lawyer who works for the FBI, also called Trump.
Ticks, the notorious parasites that can transmit dangerous diseases, have been destroying the life of animals for much longer than there are people walking around on earth. Even dinosaurs already suffered from the blood-sucking spiders.
Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, has struck Donald Trump's Twitter attack on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand as filthy and rude. 'That tweet was mean, indecent for a president,' Schumer said.
Transgenders are allowed to serve in the US Army from 1 January. Federal judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly disregarded the request of the Trump government to postpone any admission of transgender people to the military.
President Donald Trump will sign an order to bring Americans to the moon again, ahead of a manned mission to Mars. The White House has announced this on Monday.
The White House calls it 'regrettable' that the Palestinians no longer want to sit around the table with Vice President Mike Pence. He would come to sit around the table with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he said it during the riot about the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
A survivor of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima has called on the United States and North Korea to prevent a nuclear strike. The 85-year-old Setsuko Thurlow was supported by the head of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Paul Manafort, the former campaign leader of President Donald Trump, has violated the rules of the judge because he has contributed to an opinion piece about his work for a Ukrainian political party.
Donald Trump said about Hope Hicks that at the start of his campaign, she had 'just as much political experience as a cup of coffee.' But after the countless redundancies in the White House, Hicks is still there and she is of great importance.
American parliamentarian Trent Franks announced on Friday that he will step down immediately as a member of Congress and not until January 31, as he had said earlier. The Republican delegate from the state of Arizona gets on with complaints from two employees about cross-border behavior.
It seems that the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will take some time. According to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the embassy is not 'moving this year, and probably not next year.'
The US Congressman Trent Franks has announced that he will step down. The Republican delegate from the state of Arizona gets on with complaints from two employees about cross-border behavior.
A US senator resigned on Thursday after being accused by eight women of sexual harassment. It is the Democrat Al Franken who sat in the Senate for the state of Minnesota.
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The situation in the Middle East is only getting more complicated and the world is being divided by the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This is what the Kremlin spokesperson said on Thursday. He responded to the announcement by US President Trump that Washington recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah called for a new uprising or intifada against Israel in Gaza on Thursday. Haniyah made the call in response to the decision of US President Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Former CEO Oliver Schmidt of Volkswagen has to go to the cell of a US court for 7 years because of his role in the 'sjoemelgate'.
US President Donald Trump, as expected, recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and said that the embassy would be moved to that city.
The US State Department has called on officials at all diplomatic posts abroad on Wednesday to not travel to Israel, Jerusalem and the West Bank until December 20 if there is no urgent reason.
The American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is the death blow to the credibility of the United States and Israel in their attitude towards the two-state solution. The Palestinian Envoy in the Netherlands, Rawan Suleiman, states this in a statement shortly before an expected announcement by President Trump.
The American plan to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is not the current President Trump. US support for Israel's policies has long been the backbone of the Jewish state protected by Washington in the UN Security Council.
