In order to avoid violating limitations on the size of loans to individual borrowers, Calk used a bank holding company to acquire part of the loan. Specifically, Manafort looked to Calk - "urgently"...

Officers quickly caught up with Rainbird and placed her under arrest. A woman driving an RV led police on a damaging high-speed chase, hitting several cars and with a dog jumping from the moving veh...

Ali al-Ahmad, A Saudi opposition figure and head of the US-based Institute for Gulf Affairs, Ali al-Ahmad, described the move to execute the men as a crime to terrorise the Saudi citizens into submiss...

Before the incident, Donald had just achieved a lifelong dream of becoming a member of the Seven Summits Club. "One of the last messages my mom got [from him] was, 'Thank you for supporting me in my...

On May 21, 2019, medical staff at the Centralized Processing Center (CPC) in McAllen, Texas, identified a large number of subjects in custody with high fevers and displaying signs of flu related illne...

However, in Khamenei's most recent statement he said that the Iranian people do not seek war with Washington, but will resist USA pressure until it is "forced into retreat". However, both the USA an...

But some wildlife conservation organizations have expressed concern over Botswana's lifting of the ban. "Expect mass culling next", the CEO of WildlifeDirect, Paula Kahumbu, said in a post on Tw...

Meanwhile, Hawaii and the Central Pacific could experience more storms than normal during this year's hurricane season. Tropical Storm Alberto formed on May 25, made landfall in northern Florida and m...

Today, Trump went at it again by blasting the "Fake & Corrupt Press" for reporting on how he supposedly raged at Pelosi and Schumer during their encounter. "In a letter to her House colleagues, Nan...

The Voter Turnout app has more than 100,000 downloads. According to searches tracked on Google , the hashtags for BJP started off to be more popular than that for Congress Party, however, the two par...

With no resolution in sight, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Thursday announced a $16 billion aid program to help USA farmers hurt by the conflict, with some funds to be used to open markets out...

Tillerson spoke to the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week, and sources from the closed-door meeting told Washington Post that Tillerson recalled a G-20 summit in Hamburg where the administr...

The indictment, which includes a total of 18 felony charges, alleges that Assange "engaged in real-time discussions regarding Manning's transmission of classified records to Assange" and "actively enc...

Thursday's election is the first Saskia has voted in while living in Britain, due to being unable to vote in 2016's referendum. "But not today as my form was lost in the post , so I'm told", he w...

Officials, making a plea for likes and shares, also posted a wanted poster for Kristopher Waananen, 36, who is wanted after he allegedly failed to stop for police. Jose even commented on the post. ...

He's since learned about the factors that contributed to his father's downward spiral into drug abuse and ultimately death from an overdose. As part of the inheritance package, Mr Adlard-Rogers will...

The discussions were ignored and on March 22 the small dog was collected from the shelter and taken to a vet where Emma was euthanised and her remains cremated. "Please reveal the name of the vet ...

The remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean has been the source of tension for decades, after Britain separated it from Mauritius in 1965 and set up a military base along with the United States on the ...

I hated the last three episodes". Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among those who were not impressed by the " Game Of Thrones " finale. "I was particularly upset about how the writers treated the charac...

Taro Kono, the foreign minister, has announced that henceforth he wishes to be known in English as Kono Taro - with his family name, or surname, preceding his given, or first, name. He referred to a ...

The child was skipping rocks into the bird's habitat on Tuesday NZT when a stone struck the animal, Jay Tetzloff , the director at the Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois, said in an email. "T...

Although investigators noted that the Virginia governor made "inconsistent public statements" about the racist photo in question, which shows someone wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit standing next to a...

In the letter, the lawmakers reportedly sought details on how the agency is working to prevent prisoners such as Lindh from committing additional crimes after their release. But Lindh refused to respo...

When reached for comment by the Post , a spokesperson for the Treasury Department claimed that the department had never received a copy of the memo. Executive privilege, as defined by Cornell Law Sc...

A woman salvages items from a building that was reportedly destroyed during air strikes by the Syrian regime ally Russian Federation, in the town of Kafranbel in the rebel-held part of the Syrian Idli...

Pentagon officials are scheduled to brief senior members of President Donald Trump's national security team as soon as Thursday on a plan that could send thousands of additional United States troops t...

He is the first person to be indicted under the country's counter-terror legislation. Tarrant was charged with 50 counts of murder and 39 counts of attempted murder following the massacre, but offic...

Rep. Nydia Velazquez , a New York Democrat, called Carson's proposed budget "shameful" and "immoral" because she said it didn't include enough money to address the nation's housing crisis, citin...

Khamenei said last week that there would be no war with the United States. That shrunken ability to deal with the outside world and decreasing government revenues are Iran's two main concerns at the m...

The bill passed 84-53 and would allow the New York Department of Taxation and Finance commissioner to release any state tax returns about those in federal, state and local elected or other upper-level...

Nadege Dubois-Seex is seeking at least $276 million in damages, her USA attorney Nomaan Husain said on Tuesday. USA aviation officials quoted by the Wall Street Journal believe that a collision wi...

Ramaphosa initially favored Higher Education Minister Naledi Pandor or International Relations Minister Lindiwe Sisulu to be his deputy, but gave the post to Mabuza after he won the deputy leadership ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused Donald Trump of being "engaged in a cover up" following a meeting with House Democrats . But the pressure is mounting, and it's unclear how long Ms. "He told ...

He had arrived from Singapore with, according to the authorities, almost four kilograms of cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines hidden in a double-bottomed suitcase. The lawyer Deny Only Indra spoke of a...

Add Michael Avenatti as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Michael Avenatti news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Prosecutors said Avenatti spent some diverted money on monthly leas...