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After Pyongyang conducted its first missile launch since the UN had imposed new sanctions on North Korea, the US president's national security adviser reiterated that a military solution to the problem is still on the table.

A lasting peace with Russia entails mammoth potential benefits, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik. According to the analyst, Donald Trump sees Russia as a pivotal global force. However, in the context of the ongoing Trump-Russia inquiry the US president avoids making concessions to Moscow.

According to the Holy See's press service, the Vatican has recalled a member of its diplomatic corps from the United States over suspicions of violating laws relating to child pornography images.

The US decision to stop using Kaspersky software is an attempt to squeeze a successful Russian company out of the cybersecurity market, meaning that free competition makes sense to Americans only when it serves their interests, political analysts told Radio Sputnik.

Two US Senators proposed to create an independent commission similar to the 9/11 commission to probe Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony that was held in Harvard's historic and largest theater on September 14, 2017, introduced 10 new laureates from around the world, each of whom has done something that "first makes you laugh, then makes you think."

The New York Times reported Friday that the CIA wanted to expand its authority to use drone strikes in war zones, despite concerns from the US military.

She may be a 'daddy's girl' but Ivanka Trump has revealed how she still keeps the American President firmly in his place.

The European Court of Justice has ruled EU Member States cannot adopt emergency measures to ban genetically modified organisms and/or foods without evidence they pose a "serious risk" - although it only serves to make EU rules on GMOs all the more opaque and confusing.

A day after the US imposed new sanctions on Iran, the US state secretary has lashed out at Tehran he accused of overseeing "a threat network of proxies who export terror and violence."

The official police mugshot photograph taken of a former American student convicted of sexual assault has appeared in a criminal justice textbook next to a definition of 'rape.'

Facebook has suspended the use of user-reported fields after it turned out that some racist and anti-Semitic categories were generated in the social network's advertising system, media reported.

The CEO of the Russia-base Kaspersky Lab software company said the would give testimony at a US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing on September 27 if he received an expedited visa. Sputnik asked the US embassy in Russia to comment on the issue.

After US President Donald Trump has called for a tougher stance on immigration in the aftermath of the London underground explosion, the New York state governor said that the security in public places would be enhanced.

Harvard invited CIA head Mike Pompeo and US whistleblower Chelsea Manning to speak as visiting fellows, a move that outraged the CIA chief and prompted him to refuse holding his speech on Campus. Harvard dean Douglas W. Elmendorf rushed to withdraw his invitation to the WikiLeaks whistleblower. Manning returned "the favor."

US Senator Ben Cardin has said the deal between Ankara and Moscow on delivering S-400 air defense systems to Turkey allegedly violates the US legislation on anti-Russia sanctions and might entail an appropriate response to the NATO member's move.

Nuclear power is on its way out the world over, with its global share of energy generation declining and construction of just one new nuclear reactor being undertaken in 2017. Renewable energy seems poised to take its place as the energy source of the future.

September 15 marks the 51st anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson calling on US Congress to enact gun control legislation, in the wake of a college campus killing spree. Such incidents have only become increasingly familiar since.

US President Donald Trump has commented on the explosion in the London Tube, which British authorities have called a "terrorist incident."

The US Army Special Operations Command reports that the training incident at Fort Bragg military site claimed the life of one soldier, while seven others were injured.