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    White House and administration officials are reeling at reports that President Donald Trump reportedly shared classified information with Russia’s top diplomats during an Oval Office meeting last week. It’s the latest crisis jolting Trump’s senior staff in the week following the chaotic fallout from the firing of FBI director James Comey and especially ironic considering the president’s repeated condemnations of Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server, which contained a handful of messages deemed to be classified. Communications staff and senior staffers at the White House were literally “hiding in offices,” according to a senior Trump aide, as a gaggle of White House press stormed White House hallways just after the Washington Post story broke on Monday even...

    Bodies of three Bangladeshis, who died in a car crash in the USA, will be sent home from New York on Tuesday night. The namaj-e-janaza of the deceased will be held at Jamaica Muslim Centre (JMC) after the Zuhr prayers on Tuesday, said Shameem Ahsan, Bangladesh Consul General in New York. Consulate’s representatives will also participate in the janaza, he said. He said that Shamim Hossain, first secretary of the Consul General of Bangladesh in New York, has already visited houses of the three victims and met the injured at the hospital. He spent almost whole day with the bereaved members of the families and at the hospital. The hospital authorities were requested to ensure best possible treatment to the injured national, added Shameem Ahsan, adding that the Consulate has ta...

    A US man died at a hospital after live streaming his suicide on social networking site Facebook, the media reported on Saturday. According to witnesses, Jared McLemore, 33, a well-known musician in Memphis, ran into Murphy’s bar early Saturday morning seconds after setting himself on fire in a parking lot across the street. The livestream shows McLemore dousing himself with kerosene. The frantic screams of witnesses can be heard in the background. ‘This overwhelming smell of kerosene filled the room,’ Jim Duckworth, a witness was quoted as saying to wreg.com. ‘It looked like a movie, like someone wearing a flame-retardant suit...There were some people who thought that it was a joke,’ Kimberly Koehler, another witness. Koehler said McLemore’s former girlfriend, against whom...

    It's his life line of communication, a source of Fox News related information, and a direct connection with his devoted fans. He's been on his account, which boasts an impressive 29.3 million followers, since 2009, but it seems that he's still getting the hang of it. This week the President delivered, perhaps, his most clear and easy to understand tweet of all time. It was a linguistic tour de force. And completely free of all spelling mistakes. Naturally, it was deleted rather speedily afterwards. Trump just tweeted this.... ? pic.twitter.com/lEDsIMJtjQ — David Mack (@davidmackau) May 13, 2017 However, the damage was done. Twitter had it now, and they weren't going to let go of this rather enjoyable moment .

    A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the US National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday. Cyber extortionists tricked victims into opening malicious malware attachments to spam emails that appeared to contain invoices, job offers, security warnings and other legitimate files. The ransomware encrypted data on the computers, demanding payments of $300 to $600 to restore access. Security researchers said they observed some victims paying via the digital currency bitcoin, though they did not know what percent had given in to the extortionists. Researchers with security software maker Avast said they had observ...

    US President Donald Trump meeting with Russia's Sergei Lavrov in the Oval Office were issued by the Russian state news agency TASS, and subsequently published by much of the global media Donald Trump's administration was left red-faced Thursday after Moscow surprised it by releasing pictures of a closed-door meeting between the US president and Russia's top diplomat. The images -- issued by the Russian state news agency TASS, and subsequently published by much of the global media -- showed a grinning Trump shaking hands with Sergei Lavrov and the Russian ambassador in Washington, Sergei Kislyak, during an Oval Office meeting. That Wednesday meeting was already being seen as a major diplomatic coup for the Kremlin, a red carpet welcome just months after being hit with US sa...

    Donald Trump said Thursday he asked his now-fired FBI director on three occasions whether he was the target of ongoing investigations, stoking allegations of presidential interference. The US president also acknowledged that Russia was on his mind when he made the decision to sack James Comey, who had been heading a probe into suspected Russian influence in the 2016 election. ‘When I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story,’ he said in an interview with NBC, appearing to link Comey’s firing with the investigation. Trump said he had asked Comey if he was the subject of counter-intelligence probes — twice in conversations over the phone and once over a White House dinner. ‘I actually asked him, yes....

    President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey rocked Washington on Tuesday, raising questions about the future of the investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia and potentially setting off a chain of events that could envelop his administration. Comey, whose investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server helped lift Trump into the White House, was leading the federal counterintelligence investigation into whether advisers to the President had sought to collude with Russian officials in their efforts to swing the 2016 election. The ouster of the nation's top cop prompted comparisons to Watergate, as Democrats pilloried Trump for sidelining the official overseeing a probe that could threaten his presidency. But the shock move is fraught ...

    Testy exchanges between judges and lawyers over Donald Trump’s travel ban on Monday indicated that the legality of the president’s executive order could be determined by his prior comments about Muslims. The pointed questioning came during an appeals court hearing about an executive order Trump issued in March that attempted to halt new visas from six-Muslim majority countries and suspend refugee resettlement in the US. The first order in January was chaotically implemented and blocked by federal courts. The revised order was also blocked by courts in Maryland and Hawaii after judges found grounds for constitutional violations. The Trump administration then appealed these rulings and on Monday faced the next stage in its legal battle during a hearing in front of 13 judg...

    Shocking footage has emerged showing a white woman harassing a Muslim shopper her who let her queue in front of her at a supermarket. The unnamed victim offered to let the woman go in front of her in the checkout line as she appeared to be in a hurry. But in return, the woman allegedly began making derogatory comments about the way another Muslim customer, who was wearing a niqab, was dressed. The harasser then asked the Muslim woman why she wasn't fully covered, to which she replied that it was a choice. At this point, the Muslim shopper says she started filming the exchange after the woman started talking about female genital mutilation. In the mobile phone footage, recorded at a Trader Joe's store in Reston, Virginia, the Muslim woman can be heard saying I shouldn't hav...