President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that Senator Chris Murphy violated a 2-century-old US law prohibiting freelance diplomacy with hostile nations over a meeting with Iran's foreign minister and of preventing Tehran from negotiating with Washington over a new nuclear agreement

The US Defense Department told Sputnik on Wednesday that its top policy official, Under Secretary John Rood, was asked to leave his post

Former Vice President Joe Biden's falling support ahead of Wednesday's debate of Democratic presidential contenders is best explained by a fading view among voters that he is the candidate best able to defeat President Donald Trump, an ABC/Washington Post poll showed on Wednesday