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    Donald Trump has warned Russia and Iran there will be a "big price to pay" for backing the Syrian regime after a suspected chemical attack. The US President condemned as mindless and SICK reports of at least 70 people being lilled, and a further 500 injured, in a alleged chlorine gas attack in the city of Douma in eastern Ghouta. The allegations have been denied by the Syrian government and Russia. He also pointed to former president Barack Obama's handling of the Syrian civil conflict and his failure to face down Mr Assad after setting a red line on the use of chemical weapons. Mr Trump added: If President Obama had crossed his stated Red Line In The Sand, the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago! Animal Assad would have been history! Foreign Secretary Bori...

    One man was killed and four firefighters received minor injuries after a four-alarm fire broke out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York City on Saturday evening. The victim, 67, was found unresponsive and unconscious in the apartment and was pronounced dead at an area hospital, police said. Fire officials have not yet released a suspected cause of the blaze, adding no member of the Trump family was in the building at the time. The skyscraper was the primary residence of Donald Trump before he was elected president in 2016. Trump was in Washington. The New York police department closed 5th Avenue between West 55th Street and West 57th Street, and West 56th Street between Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue.

    Michelle Obama has compared Donald Trump to a neglectful parent who lets their children gorge on sweets all day and stay up late. The former first lady used the parenting allegory to compare her husband's presidency to that of his successor. I think what we see is what happens when we take things for granted. For the eight years Barack was president, it was like having the ‘good parent’ at home, she said at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston. The responsible parent, the one who told you to eat your carrots and go to bed on time. And now we have the other parent. We thought it’d feel fun, maybe it feels fun for now because we can eat candy all day and stay up late, and not follow the rules. I think about what I’ve learned from my husband, and I’ve learned ...

    The vegan activist suspected of shooting three people at YouTube’s California headquarters visited a local shooting range for practice just hours before the attack, police said. Nasim Aghdam, a self-proclaimed vegan activist who published videos on the site, was found dead at the scene with a self-inflicted wound on Tuesday. San Bruno police chief Ed Barberini said she legally owned the semi-automatic handgun which was used in the shooting. Three people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds. Two women were released on Tuesday night but a 36-year-old man remained in a serious condition. She had criticised YouTube on her website and accused the video-sharing site of reducing the money she was able to make. Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting...

    The father of a woman who shot three people at YouTube's headquarters has revealed he warned police she hated the company and might be heading there. Nasim Aghdam has been named as the shooter who targeted the firm's complex in San Bruno, California, on Tuesday. Th 39-year-old, who had accused YouTube of discrimination and blocking her work, was later found dead inside the building after apparently turning a handgun on herself. Her father Ismail Aghdam said police had found his daughter sleeping in a car on the morning of the shooting after he had reported her missing the day before. YouTube had stopped everything and she was angry he told the Bay Area News Group. Mountain View Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson confirmed officers found Aghdam asleep in a car park a...

    A British man is the the only survivor from a tragic family holiday as he stayed home alone in their rental villa while his loved ones visited tourist attractions. The unnamed man was expecting his family home after they drove to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday. But when they did not return, he contacted local police who were already on their way to tell him his loved ones had been wiped out in a terrifying road accident . Facebook Maryanne Stephenson's mother has said that the family are shocked by the deaths His brother, Bristol man and Liverpool fan Adam Stephenson, 30, had been driving his wife Maryanne Stephenson, 29, and his parents Bryan Stephenson, 59, and Sheralyn Stephenson, 56, back to their holiday villa after seeing a SpaceX rocket launch...

    It’s 2018, and selfie is an actual word in the dictionary so it’s safe to say you likely have a preferred method for posing for the camera. Maybe you’re the friend who prefers the left of the group pic to show off your good side, or maybe you’re a firm believer in Tyra Banks’s smizing philosophy. For Melania Trump Melania Trump, it’s all about the fish gape. At least that’s what we noticed after analyzing photos of her public appearances over the past 15 years. Regularly used by celebrities on the red carpet, the fish gape is a facial pose where the top and bottom lips are ever-so-slightly pursed and separated. It gets its nickname because it slightly resembles the mouth shape of, say, your first pet goldfish. Shockingly, it happens to be one of the more flatterin...

    With a handshake and a presidential kiss on the cheek, Hope Hicks bid farewell to the White House on Thursday, the press-shy communications director taking a rare moment in the spotlight on her final day in Donald Trump's administration. The exit of the president's most trusted aide, coming one day after yet another Cabinet departure, highlights continuing uncertainty among Trump aides and White House staff about who might be the next to go. Hicks departed the administration on her own terms and was given a gracious goodbye by Trump outside the Oval Office in view of reporters. That stands in stark contrast to the White House treatment of David Shulkin, the Veterans Affairs secretary who was fired amid ethics questions and replaced by a White House physician who ha...

    White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders has said, Russia's expulsion of US diplomats marks a further deterioration in relations between the two countries. Ms Sanders suggested Washington may hit back, by saying: Russia's response was not unanticipated, and the United States will deal with it. Russia's move is a retaliation to the expulsion of more than 150 Russian diplomats across the globe, following the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the UK. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said US ambassador Jon Huntsman had been summoned and was informed of the retaliatory measures. Mr Lavrov promised symmetrical measures for other countries which are expelling Russian diplomats in a mass show of support for Britain. The US has...

    Stormy Daniels ramped up her legal battle against President Trump on Monday, alleging in court that his personal attorney Michael Cohen defamed her by insinuating that she lied about an affair with Trump more than a decade ago. Daniels amended her existing lawsuit against Trump, adding Cohen as a defendant in the pending case. The expansion of the lawsuit in a California federal court comes one day after the adult-film actress’s widely watched interview on 60 Minutes. She has alleged that she had a sexual relationship with Trump in 2006 and signed a nondisclosure agreement shortly before the 2016 election. She says she received $130,000 for her silence and has sued to break the agreement, alleging that it was invalid. Neither Cohen nor his attorney could be immedia...