Giving more fodder for fun on social media, US President Donald Trump addressed Sundar Pichai on Twitter as "President of Google" after meeting him to discuss issues surrounding its dealings with China and "political fairness". ...
New York has set the record of the worlds tallest politician, after already holding Guinness World Records for the most billionaires and for being the most Instagrammed city....
A US Congressman questioned Mike Pompeo on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's culpability for human rights violations, pressing the Secretary of State to answer how such a person could be likeable, the media reported. ...
The US has expressed concern about space debris created by the anti-satellite (A-SAT) test carried out by India and said it expected that it does not endanger others' equipment....
The US is working with India to offer an alternative to the Russian S-400 Triumf missile defence system, according to Assistant Defence Secretary Randall Schriver, but he left open the possibility that Washington may not punish New Delhi over the $5.4 billion Moscow deal. ...
Pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $270 million to the state of Oklahoma in one of the more than 1,600 lawsuits it faces for its alleged responsibility in aggravating the opioid crisis in the US. ...
Verizon will soon provide free spam alerting and robocall blocking tools for wireless customers who have smart phones that can support the features, including Android and iPhones, a report in USA Today said. Verizon said it had identified nearly 300 million numbers linked to spam and robocalling. ...
Former US First Lady Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming" has sold over 10 million copies globally to date and is on track to becoming the most successful memoir in modern publishing history. ...
As attention turns to issues for next year's election, the Democratic Party has failed in its bid to overturn President Donald Trump's emergency declaration. It has been unable to come up with the two-thirds majority in the House of Representative to nullify his veto of a Congressional resolution killing it....
The president once again criticised those who promoted the investigation more than two years ago and said that the Democrats "and others created a fraud on our country with this ridiculous witch hunt -- where it was proven very strongly no collusion, no obstruction, no nothing....