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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Orrin Hatch, the longest serving Republican in the US Senate, announced his retirement in a video statement via Twitter on Tuesday.

The feud between New York Times and WikiLeaks has reached a new high as WikiLeaks alleges that the Times warned Hillary Clinton’s State Department of their release schedule for the “Cablegate” diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks in 2010.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is earmarking $30 million in cost-sharing grants to private researchers in a bid to develop new designs for nuclear reactors and related technologies as affordable sources of clean energy, Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry said in a press release on Tuesday.

The frequently broken and extremely costly F-35 fighter jet is on its way to combat theaters with the US Marine Corps for the first time.

Washington is reducing financial assistance to Pakistan by $255 million, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki said Tuesday, echoing US President Donald Trump's allegation that in exchange for sending Islamabad billions of dollars, Washington has received "nothing but lies and deceit."

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US President Donald Trump should immediately lift the travel ban on Iran to show support for the protesters who have been taking to the streets in the country, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Ben Cardin said in a press release on Tuesday.

Democrats have warned that Republicans will have to push for more special spending cuts to pay for the tax reform approved in late-December.

Despite Donald Trump’s stated desire to mend fences with Russia, relations between the two countries remain tense. In an interview with Radio Sputnik, Thomas Whalen, an associate professor of social science at Boston University, said that the current tensions between the two countries go “well beyond Trump’s term in office.”

Donald Trump has become one of the most controversial US presidents with his notorious election pledges that included the creation of a wall along the border with Mexico at the expense of the latter, leaving troops in Afghanistan and moving jobs back to the US from China.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin and Former FBI Director James Comey must be investigated for their potential breaches of security, US President Donald Trump said in a statement on Tuesday.

Travelers entering the US have been growing increasingly frustrated at long security queues as immigration desk computers at various US airports shut down for about two hours, media reports have said.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US authorities have decided to withhold $255 million in military aid to Pakistan after US President Donald Trump’s critical remarks about the south Asian country, local media reported.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Media reports about a new delay of US Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Israel and Egypt are not true, the trip will take place later in January as scheduled, Pence's Deputy Chief of Staff Jarrod Agen said.

Instead of blindly supporting new US military moves in the Middle East, Pakistan is now pushing back against an increasingly strident White House that has stooped to using social media as a means of negotiation and diplomacy.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States has allocated millions of dollars in aid to Pakistan, while the latter has not contributed to countering terrorism and provided safe harbor to terrorists from Afghanistan, a situation that cannot continue any longer, US President Donald Trump said on Monday.

A resident of the US city of Erie in the state of Pennsylvania, which recently had a record amount of snow, demonstrated how to use a car to remove cold.

After vandals destroyed a Midwest US family-owned beehive, donors - both online and in person - have provided over $30,000 in one day to bring the colony back.

Beginning Monday transgender people will be able to enlist in the US military for the first time in the history of the organization.

Douglas County police officers have responded to a call of a domestic disturbance in Littletown, a suburb of Denver, early morning on Sunday.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald assumed in his recent article that the Silicon Valley giant Facebook has become a censorship tool for Washington and Tel Aviv. Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel and Israeli commentator Avigdor Eskin shared their views on Greenwald's report.