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President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections, sending mixed signals to his party amid an ongoing crisis over his border policies.

It is not known whether authors V.S. Naipaul and Vikram Seth, who live in the county of Wiltshire, have risked a recent visit to the picturesque medieval town of Salisbury but Prince Charles, accompanied by his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, did so on Friday.

Airbus issued its strongest warning yet over the impact of Britain's departure from the EU, saying a withdrawal without a deal would force it to reconsider its long-term position and put thousands of British jobs at risk.

Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Krauthammer, who gave up a psychiatric career to become one of the leading conservative political commentators in the US media, died on Thursday at the age of 68, the Washington Post and Fox News said.

The EU fought back on Friday against the Trump administration's tariffs, slapping penalties on an array of American products that target the President's political base, like bourbon, motorcycles and orange juice.

Six new species of minute goblin spiders discovered in the diminishing forests of Sri Lanka have been named after fictional characters described by famous English children's writer Enid Blyton.

In a major statement on privacy in the digital age, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the government generally needs a warrant to collect troves of location data about the customers of cellphone companies.

The Supreme Court said Friday the police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects' movements by collecting information about where they have used their cellphones.

Melania Trump went to Texas to show she cared about migrant children. Her fashion choice carried a baffling counter-message.

Police say London's Charing Cross station, a major commuter hub, was closed for more than an hour as they responded to what they later described as a bomb hoax.