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China dangles potentially harmful new threat in trade war

With a near total control on the rare earth mineral market, China floats possible export restrictions on the United States, as Washington escalated the trade war against China this month by putting the Chinese telecom giant Huawei on a blacklist.

Landmark US opioid trial begins in Oklahoma

The first civil trial that could hold a drug company responsible for the US opioid epidemic began in Oklahoma, a landmark case that could impact thousands of others like it. Johnson & Johnson and two other drug companies named in the lawsuit.

Intimate partner violence: the need for a cultural shift in the US

TRT World interviews Anton Tripolskii, a domestic violence expert from the Battered Women’s Justice Project, who explains how the 'credibility of victim-survivors is significantly discounted in the American court system.'

Barr faces contempt vote in Congress over Mueller report

Democrats will try to hold the US Attorney General William Barr in contempt over special counsel Robert Mueller's report. He is being accused of spinning the results of the investigation to President Donald Trump's benefit.

Peru's ex-president Garcia dies after shooting himself to avoid arrest

Police attempted to detain Alan Garcia amid corruption allegations in Latin America's largest graft probe.

Dozens of privileged people charged in US college admissions scandal

US federal prosecutors charge dozens, including celebrity Felicity Huffman, in a college admissions fraud scheme.

US House to query 60 Trump officials in obstruction probe

"We are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption and into obstruction of justice," the chairman of the House committee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. said. "We will do everything we can to get that evidence."

Trump, Kim share smiles, dinner before nuke talks

US President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi for a summit to discuss denuclearisation of Korean peninsula and lifting sanctions on Pyongyang.

Kneeling protester Kaepernick agrees to confidential NFL settlement

Kaepernick and former San Francisco 49ers teammate Eric Reid both filed a lawsuit against the NFL saying owners and officials colluded to keep them off NFL rosters for their decision to make a kneeling protest during the US anthem

Bezos says Enquirer threatened to publish revealing photos

Amazon CEO says the National Enquirer wanted him to make a public statement that the tabloid's coverage of his extra-marital relationship with a former TV anchor was not politically motivated.

Iranian TV anchor held as witness is released from US jail

Marzieh Hashemi, who works for the Press TV network's English-language service, was released from jail in Washington after being detained for 10 days. Court documents have not included details on the criminal case in which she was named a witness.

Why did Trump Foundation shut down?

A controversial foundation, which was set up by the US President Donald Trump, has agreed to dissolve under the court supervision for misusing its resources.