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  Team Trump Pauses US Visa Interviews Worldwide. Here's Why

  Trump has pursued an aggressive deportation drive and immigration crackdown that includes revocations of visas and green cards and rejection of applications for a range of reasons.

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  US Sanctions 4 India-Based Firms, 3 Indians To Punish Iran

  In an effort to hobble Iran's economy, the United States earlier this week threatened to punish countries that continue to do business with Iran but said it would not impose penalties immediately.

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  US Says Trump Is Ending Canada's "Free Ride" Amid Escalating Tariff Dispute

  The White House said that Canada has been ripping off the United States for decades --and President Donald J. Trump is done letting them get away with it.

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  Iran, Oman Discuss Temporary Hormuz Corridor As Impasse With US Drags On

  Iran and Oman have been in on-and-off talks for weeks about controlling traffic through the strategic waterway, which handled one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments before the war began in February.

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  US Man Kills 8 Relatives, Including 4 Kids, At Sunday Dinner

  Police said they responded to the home on Sunday evening and heard gunshots coming from out back, just before the house was completely engulfed in flames.

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  Trump Orders US Flags Lowered For "True Loss" Of Dolly Parton

  President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the lowering of flags across the United States for a week for Dolly Parton, calling the country music legend's death a "true loss for millions of people."

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  CIA Chief On 'Secret' Trip To Moscow As US Asks Ukraine To Halt Strikes: Report

  Before his trip, the US requested Ukraine to temporarily stop drone and missile attacks on Moscow and other cities in northern Russia, according to the report.

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  Country Music Legend Dolly Parton Dies At 80

  Dolly Parton wrote hundreds of songs, including classics like "Jolene," "Coat of Many Colors" and "I Will Always Love You," that totaled more than 100 million worldwide sales and more than 1 billion online streams.

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  SpaceX Announces $100 Billion 'Spaceport' In US' Louisiana

  SpaceX is committed to investing at least $100 billion and creating more than 3,000 new jobs at Starbase, Louisiana, the company said in a statement.

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  'US Should Not Interfere With Our Iran Ties': China Warns Amid Sanctions

  In a regular news briefing, China's foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said that it "firmly opposes illegal unilateral sanctions" and that it will take all measures to safeguard its own rights and interests.

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  Iran, Oman Discuss Temporary Corridor Through Strait Of Hormuz

  The two countries have sought to regulate transit through the Strait of Hormuz, as written in the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, after the waterway became a flashpoint in the Middle East war.

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  Russia Claims It Struck 5 Vessels In Ukraine's Black Sea Ports

  The ministry also said it had hit another cargo vessel in the nearby port of Odesa.

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  Rise In Somali Pirate Attacks And A Shift Towards Red Sea Route

  With maritime traffic disrupted around the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, shipping carriers have increasingly been forced to take longer routes around the southern tip of Africa.

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  Beyond Sheikh Hasina, India's 'Interdependency' Push For Reset In Dhaka Ties

  India has made it clear that it does not consider Bangladesh's sovereignty any less important and pitched for working on that footing.

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  Tate Brothers Rented Supercars, Luxury Watches To Appear 'Uberwealthy', Lawyers Reveal

  The lawyers said photos and videos featuring luxury cars, yachts and expensive watches should not necessarily be taken as proof that the brothers owned those assets.

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  Trump Wants To Rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" Amid Trade War With Canada

  The United States and Canada are locked in a trade dispute, with Canada expected to announce retaliatory measures on Tuesday. That's in response to the Trump administration enacting 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down.

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  "Aware Of Video": US Secret Service After Iran's Bounty On Barron Trump

  "The US Secret Service is aware of the video and investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat toward our protectees," Secret Service spokesperson Nate Herring told CNN.

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  Canada To Impose Up To 50% Tariffs On 700 US Goods As Trade War Escalates

  Canadian officials said on Tuesday that Ottawa's tariffs will match US levels and will impact steel, dairy and electronics industries.

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  Ghislaine Maxwell's Bid To Overturn Her Conviction Rejected By US Judge

  Maxwell, 64, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and is the only person convicted of a crime in connection with Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his own trial.

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  Long Petrol Queues In Tehran As US Tightens Economic Noose On Iran

  Washington has turned to pulling economic levers six months into a war on Iran that has ground to a stalemate militarily, with peace talks stalled and most traffic through the crucial Strait of Hormuz blocked.