PAJU, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has cut off power and water supplies to a factory park in North Korea, officials said Friday, a day after the North deported all South Korean workers there…
PAJU, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has cut off power and water supplies to a factory park in North Korea, officials said Friday, a day after the North deported all South Korean workers there…
Bruce Klingner
Security, Asia
President Obama has been hitting the snooze bar on North Korean sanctions.
North Korea’s recent nuclear and missile tests have certainly shocked the world and triggered a cascade of stern responses.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye stood up to Chinese pressure and economic blackmail by moving forward to improve her country’s defenses by deploying important American missile defenses—Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or what is commonly referred to as THAAD. Читать дальше...
TOKYO - Undated photo shows former major league pitcher Hideo Nomo. The San Diego Padres have hired Nomo as ...
Cloudy weather is likely to continue for a day or two and there will be the possibility of rain or thundershowers, meteorological department officials predict.
The Oregon sheriff who had to deal with the weeks-long occupation of a wildlife refuge made an emotional plea to all decent Americans on Thursday.
Thomson Reuters
The U.S. Defense Department could save itself a cool $33 billion if Pentagon leaders took a firmer hand with wasteful programs and imposed some basic budget discipline, according to a new think-tank study.
The report by the Center for International Policy offers 27 examples of inefficient Pentagon spending. It comes one day after President Obama rolled out the department’s $583 billion budget request for fiscal 2017, with the Pentagon second only to Social Security in terms of spending. Читать дальше...
Kanye West wears a shirt to pay tribute to two important people while backstage at his Yeezy Season 3 fashion show on Thursday (February 11) at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The 38-year-old rapper wore an illustration of his late mother Donda West on the front of his shirt and an illustration of [...]
It was not just the usual speeches and sloganeering that marked campaigning for the Khadoor Sahib assembly byelection that drew to a close on Thursday.
I'm betting both candidates think Barack Obama knows what he's doing, without saying it three times, Rubio-style.
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Haryana forest and wildlife department officials have arrested two hunters for shooting a blackbuck in the fields of Khasa Mahajan village in Hisar district on Thursday after the local residents caught them on the spot.
ABINGDON, Md. (AP) — The Latest on a gunman fatally shooting two sheriff's deputies and being killed in a shootout (all times local):
ABINGDON, Md. (AP) — The Latest on a gunman fatally shooting two sheriff's deputies and being killed in a shootout (all times local):
The transition and remodeling of the four former Oregon State University housing co-ops is underway and on time.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of plotting to join the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiring to provide material support and resources to the milit…
UPDATE: 10:52 p.m. EST — In his closing statement at the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Milwaukee Thursday night, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont talked about political revolution and reminded the audience: “One of us ran against Barack Obama. I was not that candidate.”
Regional office of Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has cracked a whip on more offenders who have not paid their long-time dues.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lamar Odom made his public return at brother-in-law Kanye West's New York Fashion Week show on Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lamar Odom made his public return at brother-in-law Kanye West's New York Fashion Week show on Thursday.
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The sentiment in Silicon Valley has officially shifted: The tech boom is over, and we're entering a down cycle.
That became clearer than ever last week when a couple of public companies, Tableau and LinkedIn, lost almost half of their value in a day.
But at least one VC says that it won't be as bad this time as it was after the Great Recession or the dot-com bust.
Rich Wong is a partner at Accel, one of Silicon Valley's quiet giants, and the first firm to invest in Facebook in 2005. Читать дальше...
NEW YORK (AP) — The volume high and anticipation higher, Kanye West spent more than an hour Thursday at Madison Square Garden blasting his new album to a cheering crowd of about 20,000 as mode…
NEW YORK (AP) — The volume high and anticipation higher, Kanye West spent more than an hour Thursday at Madison Square Garden blasting his new album to a cheering crowd of about 20,000 as mode…
NEW YORK (AP) — The volume high and anticipation higher, Kanye West spent more than an hour Thursday at Madison Square Garden blasting his new album to a cheering crowd of about 20,000 as mode…
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — No longer the desolate space it was a few years ago, downtown El Paso is ripe with new hotels, bars, restaurants — and bulldozers that herald the planned construction of …