U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, the former head of the chamber’s Republican majority, was admitted to hospital Sunday morning, a spokesman said in a statement.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he opposes any renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that does not include his Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voting.
A U.S. trade judge on Tuesday urged Trump administration officials to speed up refunds of more than $10 billion in revenue from tariffs that were collected and later deemed illegal by the Supreme Court, but stopped short of issuing a new order compelling them to do so.
Authorities in China’s southern province of Hunan have launched a crackdown on illegal production of fireworks and firecrackers that will run until the end of August, the official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
A pastor’s coffin broke on the rocky road home to his burial ceremony, which investigators suspect was one of the earliest super-spreader events in Congo’s mushrooming Ebola epidemic.
Kansas City, England’s base for the World Cup, was hit with a tornado warning just hours after the team arrived, as the weather service told residents to take shelter to avoid a severe thunderstorm.
Protesters set fire to a Tesla and smashed the windows of a bank in Geneva on Sunday as they vented their anger at a Group of Seven summit about to take place just across the border in France.