Fire breaks out at South Africa's parliament in Cape Town
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A large fire broke out at South Africa's parliament in Cape Town on Sunday, with images from the scene showing flames shooting through the roof of a building.
Dozens of firefighters were at the scene battling the blaze, which sent plumes of thick black smoke into the sky above parliament.
The fire started in an office space before spreading to the National Assembly chambers, and was still burning hours after it started on Sunday morning, according to mayoral committee member JP Smith.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, may have “significantly underpaid his Social Security and Medicare taxes” in recent years, according to a memo prepared by Democratic staff on the Senate Finance Committee and obtained by CNN.
President Donald Trump’s effort to transfer migrants from the United States to the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is being buffeted by concerns inside and outside his administration.
Mark Carney has been sworn in as Canada’s prime minister, after Justin Trudeau formally stepped down, as the country faces questions about its sovereignty from Donald Trump and a trade war with Canada’s largest trading partner, the United States.
Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a moderate blend of conservatism, has died. He was 93.
In the depths of a bitterly cold and snowy January this year, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister for nearly a decade, reluctantly decided to resign—a tacit admission that the sun was setting on his “sunny ways,” the mantra that propelled him to office in 2015.
The man last known to be seen with a University of Pittsburgh student before she vanished from a beach in the Dominican Republic gave more details to local prosecutors about the last time he saw her, Dominican news agency Noticias SIN reported.
A new lawsuit from Democratic attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia alleges this week’s mass layoffs at the Department of Education are gutting the agency as a way to implement an unlawful plan by President Donald Trump to dismantle the department.
President Donald Trump is set to deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the Justice Department, the storied building from which the government pursued criminal investigations and prosecutions against him.
Americans are skeptical that President Donald Trump’s approach to the war between Russia and Ukraine will bring peace to the region, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Passengers evacuate onto wing of American Airlines plane after engine catches fire at Denver airport
Dozens of passengers were forced to stand on the wing of an American Airlines plane at Denver International Airport as they evacuated the aircraft after one of its engines caught fire Thursday evening.
A second federal judge ruled Thursday that thousands of probationary employees laid off en mass by the Trump administration must be temporarily reinstated to their jobs.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that she plans to mobilize her massive base of followers to oppose what she described as an “acquiesce” by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to accept the House GOP funding bill.
Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development amid the Trump administration’s effort to significantly downsize the federal government.