Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, co-founder of one of the most influential technology companies, has resigned under mounting pressure from investors over his leadership. His departure caps a tumultuous period for the world's largest ride-services company
Republicans fended off a fresh-faced first-time candidate in the Atlanta suburbs, keeping a House seat in GOP hands as it has been for four decades. Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel fended off Jon Ossoff’s campaign
Undoing decades of royal tradition, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman appointed his 31-year-old son Mohammed Bin Salman to be next in line for the throne on Wednesday, signaling a historic political shift in one of the Middle East’s key regional powers
Prince Philip has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of an infection and will not be able to attend the queen's speech, Buckingham Palace said. Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, was admitted as a precautionary measure and is in good spirits
The Trump Administration begins an intensive round of Middle East peacemaking with the arrival in Jerusalem of President Trump’s personal envoys Jason Greenblatt and Jared Kushner, as they pursue Trump’s “ultimate deal” of Israeli-Palestinian peace
The quick shooting of an attacker who tried to detonate a nail bomb and shouted "Allahu akbar" at a Brussels train station averted fatalities, officials said, as Belgium increased security measures around the country
Republicans are getting ready for Senate votes on legislation scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said among growing indications that the climactic vote could occur next week
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who were directing the untitled Han Solo movie, have stepped away from the Star Wars spin-off film, citing "creative differences." The movie is still slated for a May 2018 release
Brazil's federal police said investigators have found evidence President Michel Temer received bribes, raising a new threat that the embattled leader could be suspended from office pending a corruption trial less than a year after he replaced Dilma Rousseff
A federal judge has approved a settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri
Video that shows a Minnesota police officer shooting seven rapid shots at Philando Castile during a traffic stop last July was made public, days after the officer was acquitted on all counts
Rapper Prodigy, a member of the New York hip-hop duo Mobb Deep, has died. He was 42. The rapper's publicist said in a statement that Prodigy was hospitalized a few days ago in Las Vegas "for complications caused by a sickle cell anemia crisis"
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