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Top Trump campaign officials on Sunday expressed optimism about recent poll numbers amid the fallout from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s FBI email investigation and sought to defend the Republican presidential nominee's immigration plan in advance of the White House race intensifying after Labor Day. “The polling data that you showed earlier really tells the tale,” Trump campaign manager Kellyae Conway told ABC’s “This Week.” “Hillary Clinton is having a hard time being accepted as a truthful and honest candidate vis-à-vis the American people.” Clinton’s poll numbers have dropped in recent weeks amid further revelations about her use of a private email server while secretary of s...

FILE - In this July 27, 2014 file photo, North Korean army soldiers watch the south side while a South Korean and United States Army soldiers stand guard at the border villages of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File) North Korea on Saturday threatened to aim fire at the lighting equipment used by "provocative" American and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas. The North's Korean People's Army accused U.S. and South Korean soldiers of "deliberate provocations" by aiming their lights at North Korean guard posts at Panmunjom since Friday evening. The KPA said in a statement that the soldiers' actions have...

DEVELOPING:Explosions and gunfire rang out atAmerican University of Afghanistan in Kabul Wednesday in what a police commander described as "a complex attack." Photo attributed to the attack on American University of Afghanistan in Kabul pic.twitter.com/EVunzOpyd3 — KAZEMI, Mustafa (@CombatJouo) August 24, 2016 Reporters in the area said teachers and hundreds of students took cover in classrooms and safe rooms as police and special forces surrounded the campus on the weste outskirts of Afghanistan's capital city. A car bomb had exploded outside a school for the blind next door before at least one attacker fired at the university campus from that school building, a police officer at t...

Aug. 20, 2016: A man and a woman mou next to a body of one the victims of a blast targeting a wedding ceremony in Gaziantep, Turkey. (Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS) Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Islamic State Sunday for the bombing of an outdoor wedding party that killed 50 people and wounded 94 others. Saturday’s attack in Gaziantep, near Syria’s border, appeared to be a suicide bombing, officials said. Erdogan said in a statement that ISIS was “the most likely perpetrator of the Gaziantep attack.” He added that there was “absolutely no difference” between ISIS, Kurdish rebels and the movement behind the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, calling them terrorists. Turk...

Aug. 20, 2016: A man and a woman mou next to a body of one the victims of a blast targeting a wedding ceremony in Gaziantep, Turkey. (Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS) At least 22 people were killed and 94 others were injured Saturday when a bomb exploded at an outdoor wedding in southe Turkey, the provincial goveor's office said. Gaziantep Province Gov. Ali Yerlikaya said the blast during the wedding in the city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria, was a terror attack. A brief statement from the goveor's office said the explosion in the Sahinbey district occurred at 10:50 p.m. (3:50 p.m. ET) The statement condemned the "treacherous" attack, but did not provide further details. Mehmet ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Twisted metal gates and rusted mailboxes remained where houses once stood. Flames had tued a lot full of cars — including some vintage models — into a junkyard of hollowed-out shells. Countless trees were scorched or gone. Scenes of destruction were everywhere Thursday after a huge wildfire sped through mountains and high desert 60 miles east of Los Angeles so swiftly that it took seasoned firefighters off guard. But the day also brought the biggest gains yet against the blaze, with containment jumping from 22 percent, up from just 4 percent when the day began. The fire has bued 56 square miles. An aerial flyover revealed significant property loss, but crews ...

A cyberattack that targeted members of the Democrats reportedly was more widespread than previously thought and affected the private email accounts of more than 100 officials and groups. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the increasing scope of the hack prompted federal authorities to widen its investigation and that several Democratic officials have been notified that Russians may have tried to breach their accounts. According to the report, the hack attack appeared to have targeted the personal email accounts of campaign officials for Hillary Clinton and a handful of different party groups. Sources told Fox News last month that a hack into the House Democrats’ campaign arm b...

A cyberattack that targeted members of the Democrats reportedly was more widespread than previously thought and affected the private email accounts of more than 100 officials and groups. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the increasing scope of the hack prompted federal authorities to widen its investigation and that several Democratic officials have been notified that Russians may have tried to breach their accounts. According to the report, the hack attack appeared to have targeted the personal email accounts of campaign officials for Hillary Clinton and a handful of different party groups. Sources told Fox News last month that a hack into the House Democrats’ campaign arm b...

Aug. 10, 2016: Police keep watch around a house in Strathroy, Ontario. (Geoff Robins/The Canadian Press via AP) TORONTO – A suspect baed from associating with the Islamic State group was dead after Canada's national police force thwarted what an official said was a suicide bomb plot. A senior police official said late Wednesday the suspect allegedly plaed to use a bomb to carry out a suicide bombing mission in a public area but was killed in a police operation. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about details ahead of a Thursday news conference, identified the suspect as Aaron Driver. Driver, originally from Wiipeg, Manitoba, and in h...

Aug. 10, 2016: Police keep watch around a house in Strathroy, Ontario. (Geoff Robins/The Canadian Press via AP) TORONTO – A suspect baed from associating with the Islamic State group was dead after Canada's national police force thwarted what an official said was a suicide bomb plot. A senior police official said late Wednesday the suspect allegedly plaed to use a bomb to carry out a suicide bombing mission in a public area but was killed in a police operation. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about details ahead of a Thursday news conference, identified the suspect as Aaron Driver. Driver, originally from Wiipeg, Manitoba, and in h...

The powerful commander of an Iran-backed Shiite militia in Iraq -- whom the U.S. freed after the kidnapping deaths of four American soldiers in 2007 -- has hinted that his fighters could blend in with Iraqi forces to kill Americans on the battlefield in Mosul. Qais al-Khazali, leader of the paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, "brags that he can wear...

Donald Trump this weekend pounced on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and her continuing efforts to fully explain her culpability, amid Republicans and other supporters now repeatedly urging him to stick with his likely best wiing strategy. “The more the they talk about the emails the worse it gets,” David Morey, of the inteational strategy firm DMG Global, on Saturday told Fox News’ “America’s News Headquarters.” Last weekend, Clinton told “Fox News Sunday” that FBI Director James Comey said that she was “truthful” to the American public about her use of a private email server while secretary of state -- a statement critics of the Democratic presidential nominee quickly disputed. Howev...

Donald Trump this weekend pounced on Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and her continuing efforts to fully explain her culpability, amid Republicans and other supporters now repeatedly urging him to stick with his likely best wiing strategy. “The more the they talk about the emails the worse it gets,” David Morey, of the inteational strategy firm DMG Global, on Saturday told Fox News’ “America’s News Headquarters.” Last weekend, Clinton told “Fox News Sunday” that FBI Director James Comey said that she was “truthful” to the American public about her use of a private email server while secretary of state -- a statement critics of the Democratic presidential nominee quickly disputed. Howev...

A 17-year-old in Essex was sentenced to eight years in jail Friday for an acid attack on a group of friends at a train station, The Guardian reported. Alexander Bassey, who reportedly showed no remorse after the March 22 attack, admitted to three charges of causing grievous harm, according to the report. The three victims suffered permanent scars and one of them may have suffered a life-changing eye injury. The Sun reported that the teens said they thought they were going to die when splashed with the highly corrosive substance that “bued into their flesh.” [embedded content] A video provided by the British Transport Police showed the brief interaction at the South Ockendon station in Essex...

A machete attack that injured two female police officers in the Belgian city of Charleroi Saturday appears to be an act of terrorism, officials said. The assailant, who reportedly shouted "Allahu Akhbar," the Arabic phrase meaning "God is great", was shot by a third officer and later died of his inuries. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said the attacker's identity and motive were not immediately known, but "first indications" suggested the attack was terror-related. "Thoughts are with the victims, their relatives and police officers," Michel posted on Twitter. The prime minister broke off his vacation in the south of France and was retuing to Belgium for an emergency meeting of t...

A 17-year-old in Essex was sentenced to eight years in jail Friday for an acid attack on a group of friends at a train station, The Guardian reported. Alexander Bassey, who reportedly showed no remorse after the March 22 attack, admitted to three charges of causing grievous harm, according to the report. The three victims suffered permanent scars and one of them may have suffered a life-changing eye injury. The Sun reported that the teens said they thought they were going to die when splashed with the highly corrosive substance that “bued into their flesh.” [embedded content] A video provided by the British Transport Police showed the brief interaction at the South Ockendon station in Essex...

A man wielding a machete and shouting "Allahu Akbar" injured two female police officers Saturday outside a police station in southe Belgium before being shot and killed, police said. Police reported that the injured officers were “out of danger.” The attack took place around 4 p.m. local time near the main police station in Charleroi. According to RTBF state broadcasting, one officer suffered severe injuries to her face while her colleague was slightly injured. It said a third officer shot the assailant. Charleroi police spokesman David Quinaux said the attacker carried the machete in a sports bag and pulled it out as he arrived at a security checkpoint outside police headquarters. Bel...

A computer system used by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was hacked, a spokesman for the Democratic nominee said Friday. Nick Merrill said in a statement that the cyber breach was part of a larger hack attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that was made public earlier this week. The violation conceed a DNC analytics data program used by the Clinton campaign and "a number of other entities," Merrill said. He added that security experts hired by the campaign had found "no evidence" that the campaign's own inteal systems were compromised. However, such third-party, coected systems represent appealing options for hackers searching for less-protected routes to attack an...

A computer system used by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was hacked, a spokesman for the Democratic nominee said Friday. Nick Merrill said in a statement that the cyber breach was part of a larger hack attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that was made public earlier this week. The violation conceed a DNC analytics data program used by the Clinton campaign and "a number of other entities," Merrill said. He added that security experts hired by the campaign had found "no evidence" that the campaign's own inteal systems were compromised. However, such third-party, coected systems represent appealing options for hackers searching for less-protected routes to attack an...

A computer system used by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was hacked, a spokesman for the Democratic nominee said Friday. Nick Merrill said in a statement that the cyber breach was part of a larger hack attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that was made public earlier this week. The violation conceed a DNC analytics data program used by the Clinton campaign and "a number of other entities," Merrill said. He added that security experts hired by the campaign had found "no evidence" that the campaign's own inteal systems were compromised. However, such third-party, coected systems represent appealing options for hackers searching for less-protected routes to attack an...