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MANCHESTER, England — The stretch of Wilmslow Road that runs through the Rusholme neighborhood, south of the city center, is known as the Curry Mile, thanks to the Indian and Pakistani restaurants that have been here for decades. But that label no longer seems to do the place justice. Kurdish barbers sit next to stores selling shimmering saris. An Islamic bookstore faces a Jamaican supermarket.

TAORMINA, Sicily — President Trump should enjoy some respite from the rigors of his recent travels on Friday when he gazes out of his luxury suite and takes in the view of Taormina, an iridescent pearl of the Ionian Sea. Despite the town’s temporary transformation into a police state in paradise for the Group of 7 summit meeting attended by Mr.

BERLIN — The contrast could not have been more stark. Chancellor Donald J. Trump, whose election she greeted with a stern reminder to respect shared values like equality and freedom. Mr. Obama was in Berlin to help celebrate 500 years since Martin Luther’s Reformation, and received a rock-star welcome from tens of thousands at the Brandenburg Gate. It was all bonhomie, waves and warm words, as the former president praised Ms.

Pity tiny Montenegro. The Balkan state is in the process of formally joining NATO, but membership, it seems, does not earn it a spot at the front of the line. Video footage of world leaders at a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday shows President Trump appearing to push his way past the Montenegrin prime minister, Dusko Markovic, a

BRUSSELS — President Trump on Thursday punctured any illusions that he was on a fence-mending tour of Europe, declining to explicitly endorse NATO’s mutual defense pledge and lashing out at fellow members for what he called their “chronic underpayments” to the alliance. On a tense day when Mr.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told ABC News that he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on June 6 as part of its investigation of Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Page also confirmed to ABC News that he has retained legal counsel. In a May 23 letter addressed to Reps. L.

The lead Democrat on the House Oversight Committee has “grave concerns” that the Trump Organization is failing to keep its promise to turn over profits from foreign governments to the United States Treasury in order to avoid potentially violating the Constitution. In January, then President-elect Trump volunteered to donate Trump hotel profits gained from foreign governments to the Treasury in order not to run afoul of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which prohibits U.S.

Even with the Senate Intelligence Committee focused this week on its investigation of Russia's alleged meddling in last year's presidential election, the committee met behind closed doors today for a classified briefing from senior FBI and Homeland Security officials over another alleged threat emanating from Moscow: a major software company whose products are used widely across the United States. The visit from FBI and Homeland Security officials has long been planned. But congressional sources told ABC News that in recent days the agenda expanded to specifically include an update on U.S.

The Congressional Budget Office released its latest analysis of the Republican's health care bill on Wednesday, finding that the GOP plan would increase the number of people without health insurance by 14 million next year and 23 million by 2026. The bill, known as the American Health Care Act, passed the House with just one vote to spare earlier this month.

The Republican health care plan would reduce the federal deficit by $119 billion oven 10 years and leave 23 more Americans without health insurance, compared with current law, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The bill, known as the American Health Care Act, passed the House with only one vote to spare earlier this month.