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Donald Trump will receive his first intelligence briefing on Wednesday, officials familiar with the matter tell CBS News. The briefing is expected to be at a secure facility at the FBI in New York, likely at 26 Federal Plaza. The CIA indicated in May that the intelligence briefings for the nominees of each party would begin after the nominating conventions in July. The practice of briefing the nominees dates back to Harry Truman, who learned 12 days into his own presidency that the U.S. was working on the Manhattan Project. In 1952, he decided candidates should be given the option of receiving the briefings. CBSN Clinton, Trump trade blows over handling ISIS Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are sharpening their attacks on each other regarding terrorism: Trump claims Clinton lacks the "stamina" to figh... According to the book “The President’s Book of Secrets,” by David Priess, after the 2008 Democratic convention, Mr. Obama received one briefing -- on te...

A civilian and a police officer were killed in clashes in northeast Congo on Wednesday, police said, during a protest at government failure to stop massacres of civilians by rebel groups. The protests in the town of Beni added to tensions in Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of an election set for November in which the opposition has called for President Joseph Kabila to step down after his allotted two terms. Crowds jeered Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo and two ministers on Tuesday when they came to assess security. On Wednesday, residents of Beni and surrounding towns again chanted against the government and army outside the mayor's office, voicing frustration in a region once considered a political stronghold for the government. In the latest incident, around 50 were killed by suspected Ugandan rebels on the outskirts of Beni on Saturday. More than 700 people have died in similar attacks on civilians since 2014. The government blames the attacks on the Allie...

You have to say this for the crooked demagogues and reactionary populists of the American past: they may have stirred the bitter soup of nativist resentment with as much zeal as Donald J. Trump, but their family counselors did not take time out from politics to cruise the Aegean on a plutocrat’s yacht; their rhetorical counselors did not attempt, for decades, to instill fear in their employees through the most squalid sort of sexual terror; and their political counselors never worked in the interest of Slavic autocrats. Oh, Father Coughlin, we hardly knew ye! Day by day, news bulletin by news bulletin, the Trump campaign spirals to new depths of strategic confusion and moral chaos. On the escalators at Trump Tower, the direction is always down, down, down. At the center of the campaign is Trump himself, and, summoning the spirit of Sinatra’s most irritating song , he has made it clear that he will win or lose by doing it his way, by refusing to “pivot” or blandify his message...

Heather Way in Selsdon, Croydon, where the latest killing happened (Picture: Google Maps) A 19-year-old hacked to death last night became the fourth teenager to be murdered in London in less than a fortnight. Police were called to reports of a brutal knife fight in Selsdon, near Croydon, south London, at around 7.40pm last night. Paramedics and a helicopter ambulance were also scrambled after a 19-year-old youth was found with serious stab injuries. The victim was rushed to hospital, but died shortly after arrival. Two 19-year-olds have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in police custody. Meanwhile an 18-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Lance Walker, also 18, who was stabbed to death in Hayes, west London, on Monday afternoon. Lance Walker was stabbed to death on Monday Police say Idris Hassan, of Gledwood Gardens, Hayes, is due to appear in custody at Wimbledon Magistrates Court later today charged with Lance’s murder. A total of eight teenagers have bee...

Just after Hillary Clinton asked her supporters in Philadelphia not to get “complacent” despite her recent bump in the polls, the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee said Tuesday that the FBI had handed over documents related to their investigation into Clinton and her private email server. Clinton had no comment, and her campaign is asking for the notes from her interview with the FBI to be made public. A spokeswoman for the Republican-led House oversight panel said staff is reviewing documents that are classified as secret. Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that the panel received “FBI witness interview reports, including that of Secretary Clinton’s interview, along with other materials from the FBI’s now closed investigative file.” The FBI last month closed its yearlong probe into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled sensitive information that flowed through a private email server located in the basem...

WEST BEND, Wis. --  Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a bigot in a speech Tuesday night and accused his Democratic rival for the presidency of pandering to “communities of color.” “We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them only as votes,” Trump said. “That’s all they care about. Not as individual human beings, worthy of a better future. They have taken advantage.” It was an unfamiliar sight indeed for a Trump rally, seeing him reading off teleprompters, after months of mocking Clinton for using one at her rallies. In West Bend, in a packed building on a fairgrounds, Trump made his most distinct pitch to African-Americans to date, titling the speech “Creating a New and Better Future For America’s Inner Cities.” However, the optics might have been a bit awkward, given that the audience was almost entirely devoid of minorities. “The Democratic Party has taken the votes of African-American for granted...

French President Francois Hollande will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday to discuss the aftermath of the jihadist murder of a French priest, Hollande's office said. An official told AFP the meeting was organised "following the events in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray", the northern town where 85-year-old priest Jacques Hamel was killed by two teens claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group (IS). They are also expected to discuss the situation facing Christians in the Middle East. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve is likely to accompany Hollande, the official at the Elysee presidential palace said. Hollande may also visit San Luigi dei Francesi (Saint-Louis-des-Francais), a French church in central Rome, to pay tribute to the victims of terrorism. Adel Kermiche and Abdel Malik Petitjean stormed Hamel's church on July 26 and slit his throat in front of a small group of worshippers while he was conducting mass. The attack was the first comm...

Hate crime investigators are looking into a threat by a hatemonger who talked of blowing up a Brooklyn man’s building, sources said Tuesday. “Free Palestine!” the suspect yelled at a 36-year-old man in Sunset Park on Monday. “We will kill you and we will come back and blow out your windows. I am Mohammad.” Also on Monday in the Bronx, a Persian Jew found the word “Nazi” scrawled on his Mercedes van. Read the Original

A man was killed and at least seven others, including a 13-year-old girl, were wounded in shootings Tuesday evening on the South and West sides.  About 10 p.m., a 40-year-old man was killed and a 13-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, police said. The shooting happened in the 7300 block of South University Avenue. The man was shot in the neck and was taken to Jackson Park Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The girl suffered a graze wound to the left leg and was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in good condition, police said. No other information was immediately available about the shooting.    Most recently, about 10:35 p.m., a 23-year-old man was wounded in a shooting in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said. The man was standing outside in the 4000 block of West Cermak Road when he heard gunshots and realized that he was shot in the right hand. He was taken to...

Donald Trump has rejigged his campaign team in a bid to counter plunging poll numbers by appointing a new CEO and promoting his pollster to campaign manager. Trump announced the introduction of the former Breitbart News boss Stephen Bannon as the campaign's CEO. He also confirmed Kellyanne Conway had been promoted from pollster to campaign manager. With 82 days to the election, sections of the Trump organization have expressed concern about the direction of the campaign. The business mogul described Bannon and Conway as 'big people' who would help him defeat Hillary Clinton in November's election. 'I've known both of them for a long time. They're terrific people, they're winners, they're champs, and we need to win it,' said the billionaire real estate mogul. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who formally took over the reins following the departure of Corey Lewandowski in June, will maintain his current title, Trump said. Mana...

A German man set nearly 50 fires in a California arson spree and threatened to "roast America" because he wanted revenge for his mother's deportation, a prosecutor told jurors. Harry Burkhart, 29, inflicted "unspeakable devastation and terror," Los Angeles County prosecutor Sean Carney told jurors Monday in his opening statement, according to City News Service. Burkhart placed incendiary devices under cars in Hollywood, the San Fernando Valley and West Hollywood on Dec. 30 and Dec. 31, 2011, and on Jan. 2 during the following year. The sheer number of fires "brought the fire department in this city to its knees," Carney said. Harry Burkhart, accused of multiple counts of arson, in court. (CBS) The Chechnya native could face 80 years in state prison if convicted. He pleaded not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity. There were no deaths or serious injuries as a result of the fires, but damages were estimated to be $3 million. ...

An Oklahoma man is accused of killing his Lebanese neighbor after tormenting his family for years and calling them “dirty Arabs.” Vernon Majors faces murder charges for the shooting of Khalid Jabara, 37, on Friday night, minutes after police had left the victim’s home in Tulsa. The Jabara family says that they have been targeted for years by their 61-year-old neighbor, who would called them “filthy Lebanese” and “Aye-rabs” as well as insulting Hispanic neighbors. Majors faces a trial on assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly running over Khalid’s mother Haifa Jabara with his car in September. He bonded out of jail in May despite opposition from prosecutors, with what the Jabara family says was “No ankle monitor, no drug/alcohol testing, nothing.” Both Haifa and Khalid Jabara had protective orders against Majors, according to KOKI. Vernon Majors, 61, is also accused of trying to kill Jabara's mother with his car last year. (Tulsa County Jail) Police were...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s attorney general is resigning amid pressure from the governor and lawmakers a day after jurors found her guilty of abusing her power and lying to cover it up. Her office announced in a statement Tuesday that Kathleen Kane would resign at the end of the workday Wednesday. Kane’s exit completes a spectacular fall for the state’s highest-ranking female politician. She’s a former county prosecutor who soared to victory three years ago as an outsider. But the first woman and first Democrat elected to attorney general in Pennsylvania squandered her early popularity. Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, escorted by members of her security team, prepares to leave the Montgomery County Courthouse and await a verdict Monday in Norristown, Pa. (Ed Hille/AP) Ultimately, the 50-year-old Kane was undone by what prosecutors portrayed as a personal vendetta for her critics. Now, she’s facing jail time and has had her law license suspended. ...

A rape victim Photo: Informationng.com For raping and taking the nude pictures of a 23-year-old woman after drugging her, an undertaker, Sheriff Oyewole, 29, is to spend the next nine years in a Lagos prison. A Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court handed down the verdict on Tuesday after it found the rapist guilty on all five-count. Oyewole was first arraigned on Aug. 19, 2015 on a five-count charge of rape, assault, threat to life, drugging and taking indecent pictures of his victim. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Kikelomo Ayeye, ruled:“With all the evidence before the court, you are found guilty. “You are hereby sentenced to five years imprisonment each on the first three counts which you are to run concurrently. “You are sentenced to three years on the fourth count and one year on the fifth count.” Ayeye said the nine years in prison would be effective from the date of arraignment. Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Nurudeen Thomas, told the court that the accused committed the offences on Aug....

The Valley of the Wolves is a popular but controversial franchise in Turkey. Turkey’s wildly popular political thriller drama, likened to Western action series such as James Bond and Jason Bourne, is going to take on the events of last month’s coup in its next instalment, the company behind it announced on  Twitter . The failed coup saw a faction of the Turkish military attempt to topple the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in one of the most openly volatile situations in Turkish politics in over a decade. The reasons for the coup remain a point of contention - the government has blamed ally-turned-foe cleric Fethullah Gulen, although he denies having the intention or means to do it. The coup attempt and deaths of over 200 people on the streets of Ankara and Istanbul during clashes has triggered a huge crackdown on suspected accomplices across all state services. Now Turkey’s Valley of the Wolves thriller series, which has captivated audiences on the small and ...

Move helps air strikes against Isis and rebels and underscores ties between Assad allies Russia used Iran as a base from which to launch air strikes against Syrian militants for the first time on Tuesday, widening its air campaign in Syria and deepening its involvement in the Middle East. In a move underscoring Moscow’s increasingly close ties with Tehran, long-range Russian Tupolev-22M3 bombers and Sukhoi-34 fighter bombers used Iran’s Hamadan air base to strike a range of targets in Syria. It was the first time Russia has used the territory of another nation, apart from Syria itself, to launch such strikes since the Kremlin launched a bombing campaign to support Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in September last year. It was also thought to be the first time that Iran has allowed a foreign power to use its territory for military operations since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The Iranian deployment will boost Russia’s image as a central player in the Middle East and allow the Russian ...

The High Commissioner of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to Nigeria, Lieutenant General (Retd), Agha M. UmerFarooq, has stated that Pakistan’s relationship with Nigeria has been greatly strengthened and that he feels at home staying in Nigeria just like every other Pakistani in Nigeria. General Farooq who spoke during the Pakistan Independence celebration in Lagos, while reflecting on values that make Pakistan great, applauded the Nigerian government for getting up against Boko Haram insurgency in the country, saying that as a military expert, he understands the principle of it all. He equally said he was delighted with the Nigerian militarily because, Boko Haram’s back has been broken. However, General Farooq maintained that the ideology of success does not lie within the military power alone, but with the socio-economic plan, and Nigeria is in the next stage of war against terrorism in which she should be looking also at providing livelihood, economic growth so that people can h...

You might want to get that bump on your head checked, Rudy. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Monday appeared to forget about the worst-ever terror attack to occur on U.S. soil, claiming that there simply had been no such assaults inside America before President Obama. “Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack inside the United States,” Giuliani said during a head-scratching speech to introduce Donald Trump in Youngstown, Ohio. “They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office,” Giuliani said, bizarrely forgetting the horrific 9/11 attacks. The extraordinary exclusion of 9/11 was especially peculiar, given that, just a moment earlier Giuliani had been discussing the attacks and praising vice presidential nominee Mike Pence for a “very, very timely” visit to Ground Zero and for his help, as a then-congressman, on the Judiciary Committee to help “fashion the Patriot Act.” Rudy Giu...