Stephen Miller named White House chief of staff: A look at his controversial remarks

Donald Trump’s appointment of Stephen Miller as chief of staff renews focus on the adviser’s long history of hard-line views.

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President Donald Trump has named Stephen Miller as his new White House chief of staff, placing one of his most influential advisers at the centre of his administration. Miller, who previously served as deputy chief of staff for policy, replaces Susie Wiles as Trump announced the leadership change on Friday. Donald Trump’s appointment of Stephen … Read more

Trump ally Harmeet Dhillon resigns as DOJ civil rights chief after Democrats midterm wins

Harmeet Dhillon plans to leave her role leading the DOJ's Civil Rights Division after Democrats' major midterm wins. (REUTERS)

Harmeet Dhillon stepped down from her role leading the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, marking the first senior DOJ official to resign following Democrats’ massive midterm wins. Harmeet Dhillon plans to leave her role leading the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division after Democrats’ major midterm wins. (REUTERS) Dhillon, who has vastly transformed the Civil Rights Division … Read more

Iran's security chief discusses regional, bilateral affairs with Putin

Iran's security chief discusses regional, bilateral affairs with Putin

MOSCOW, – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian top security official Mohsen Rezaei at the Kremlin, Iran’s state media reported on Thursday, after Iranian negotiators met with mediators to discuss proposals to end hostilities with the US. Iran’s security chief discusses regional, bilateral affairs with Putin Rezaei delivered a message from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah … Read more

US intelligence agencies identify businesswoman close to Nvidia chief as Beijing asset: Report

US intelligence agencies identify businesswoman close to Nvidia chief as Beijing asset: Report

New York, US intelligence agencies have concluded that a Chinese businesswoman who developed a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset and funnelled information to Beijing, according to a New York Times report – China has dismissed the allegations as a “smear”. US intelligence agencies identify businesswoman close to Nvidia … Read more

Melissa Ann Smith, daughter of a Utah police chief, was killed in 1974; 52 years later, DNA tests confirm Ted Bundy did it

Ted Bundy smiles during the second day of jury selection for his murder trial in a Dade County courtroom in Miami, June 27, 1979. (/POOL via AP)

Melissa Ann Smith’s body was found by a deer hunter in a remote forested area near Utah’s Park City on October 27, 1974. Nearly 52 years later, a DNA investigation made a breakthrough in the case, linking serial killer Ted Bundy to the murder conclusively. Ted Bundy smiles during the second day of jury selection … Read more

Pak army chief, Maldives president discuss defence cooperation

Pak army chief, Maldives president discuss defence cooperation

Islamabad, Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir and Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu discussed ways to strengthen defence cooperation and institutional ties, as the two countries seek to expand bilateral engagement. Pak army chief, Maldives president discuss defence cooperation Munir, who also serves as Chief of Defence Forces , called on Muizzu in Islamabad … Read more

Trump reacts to report that he’s ‘looking’ to replace Susie Wiles – Check list of potential Chief of Staff contenders

US Election Results: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with his senior advisor Susie Wiles as he speaks. (REUTERS) (REUTERS)

President Donald Trump has been reaching out to associates and supporters to explore whether the moment has arrived to remove his most tenured chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and install a new individual in the top White House leadership role, Politico reported. US Election Results: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump shakes … Read more

MI5 chief says Iran is targeting military sites and suspected plot at RAF Fairford is ‘not unique’

MI5 chief says Iran is targeting military sites and suspected plot at RAF Fairford is 'not unique’

LONDON — Iran is trying to hit military sites in Britain and the suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in September is “not unique,” the head of the MI5 spy agency said Tuesday, as he warned that both Tehran and Moscow are expanding their attacks against the U.K. MI5 chief says Iran … Read more

Watchdog chief says urgent to find remaining Assad-era chemical weapons

Watchdog chief says urgent to find remaining Assad-era chemical weapons

The head of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog on a visit Tuesday to Syrian capital Damascus said the remaining chemical weapons from the era of ousted president Bashar al-Assad must be urgently identified and destroyed. Watchdog chief says urgent to find remaining Assad-era chemical weapons Assad was repeatedly accused of using chemical weapons during Syria’s … Read more

Who was Ann Mannix? All on ex-SFPD deputy chief shot dead alongside daughter by police sergeant husband in murder-suicide

Who was Ann Mannix? All on ex-SFPD deputy chief shot dead by husband in murder-suicide (Linkedin/@AnnMannix)

A double murder-suicide has claimed the lives of former San Francisco Police Department Deputy Chief Ann Mannix, 65, and her 24-year-old daughter, Katherine “Katie” Mannix. Investigators said that Ann’s husband, former SFPD Sgt. Kevin Mannix, 68, shot the duo dead in a suspected double murder-suicide Sunday afternoon inside the family’s home on Strawberry Circle in … Read more