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Trump tweets video of him punching CNN

President Donald Trump has stepped up his feud with the media by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and striking a man with a CNN logo super-imposed in place of his head, followed by a logo saying "Fraud News Network."

Three car bombs target Damascus, 20 killed

A car bomb has killed 20 people in Damascus and wounded dozens more, the Syrian foreign ministry says, the first such bombing in the Syrian capital since a series of jihadist suicide attacks in March.

UK says 181 highrises fail safety tests

Some 181 high-rise buildings have failed safety tests carried out after a fire that killed at least 80 people in London last month, the British government says.

NY hospital shooter aggressive: co-workers

A doctor who appears to have been the intended target of a former physician who started shooting at a New York hospital, killing one person and injuring six, says he has no idea why he would have been singled out.

Rapper held after Arkansas club shooting

A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured has been arrested on unrelated assault charges and authorities say several firearms were recovered during the arrest.


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