Category Archives: World
At Pearl Harbor, US and Japan seek absolution from the war
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - In a historic pilgrimage, the leaders of Japan and the United States took to the hallowed waters of Pearl Harbor on Tuesday to prove that even the bitterest enemies can become a...
Dec 26, 2016
Reactions to the death of superstar singer George Michael
NEW YORK - Reactions to the death of singer George Michael: ___ “I have lost a beloved friend - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of...
Dec 26, 2016

Vera Rubin, who did pioneering work on dark matter, dies
PRINCETON, N.J. - Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died, her son said Monday. She was 88. Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at Princeton ...
Dec 26, 2016
Obama vs Trump: Dispute erupts over who would have won
HONOLULU - In an alternate universe in which President Barack Obama ran for a third term against Donald Trump, who would have won? No surprise: The president and the president-elect disagree. A fresh ...
Dec 26, 2016

Trumps pick for ambassador to Israel sparks hot debate
NEW YORK - If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to show he planned to obliterate President Barack Obama’s approach to Israel, he might have found his man to deliver that message in David Fried...
Dec 26, 2016

Fans mourn pop's George Michael as charities reveal his work
LONDON - Grieving fans on Monday mourned the death of George Michael as British charities revealed that the pop star had secretly been a major behind-the-scenes donor who gave his time and money to su...
Dec 26, 2016
Winter storm weakens but travel still hazardous in places
CHICAGO - The fury of the winter storm that swept into the northern Great Plains on Christmas Day was weakening Monday evening, but blowing and drifting snow continued to hamper travel in many areas. ...
Dec 26, 2016
Typhoon kills 6, spoils Christmas festivities in Philippines
BATANGAS, Philippines - A powerful typhoon blew out of the northern Philippines on Monday after killing at least six people and spoiling Christmas in several provinces, where more than 380,000 people ...
Dec 25, 2016
Kremlin plays down terror attack possibility in jet crash
SOCHI, Russia - The Kremlin on Monday played down the possibility that a terror attack might have downed a Syria-bound Russian plane, killing all 92 people on board, as the nation observed a day of mo...
Dec 25, 2016

Japan ex-PM Yoshida's forgotten Pearl Harbor visit recounted
TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who will visit Pearl Harbor with President Barack Obama on Tuesday, wasn’t even born when Japan’s former leader Shigeru Yoshida went there just ...
Dec 25, 2016