South Korea banned sales of almost all Volkswagen cars and handed down heavy fines on the German auto maker, one of the most severe punishments globally for the company as it struggles with a deepening emissions scandal.
Wallace C. Gregson
Security, Asia
Beijing’s bad behavior is damaging the region’s common spaces.
The South China Sea remains politically roiled. It has been almost a month since the UN Tribunal’s announcement. Chinese rhetoric attacks both court and verdict, military demonstrations continue and ASEAN’s foreign ministers issued a decidedly equivocal statement following their meeting. Secretary of State John Kerry’s request for a reference to the decision of the UN’s Permanent Court of Arbitration failed. Читать дальше...
At a Monday campaign event in Nevada, military mom Catherine Byrne confronted Mike Pence about Donald Trump's comments on Khizr Khan asking him if he'll tell Trump, "enough is enough." Byrne joins The Last Word in an exclusive interview to tell her story.
NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's, which is trying to shake its image for serving processed junk food, said Monday it's eliminating some unpalatable ingredients from its most popular menu items.
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Jim Jatras
Politics, Americas
This tax law is hurting American citizens overseas.
American citizens who live outside the United States are one of the least visible constituencies in U.S. politics. This is despite the fact that, at up to nine million people, they are more numerous than the populations of all but about a dozen of our fifty states.
The Obama years have been tough for American expatriates, or “expats.” The prime culprit is the so-called Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Читать дальше...
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A $1 pocket version of the US Constitution has jumped to become the No.2 best-seller in books on Amazon after Gold Star father Khizr Khan delivered an emotional speech condemning Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention last Thursday.
“Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with our future. Let me ask you: Have you even read the U.S. Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy,” Khan said last week in Philadelphia... Читать дальше...
It’s safe to say that Joseline Hernandez has rubbed a majority of her cast members the wrong way all season. During part one of VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” Season 5 reunion, the self-proclaimed Puerto Rican Princess was forced to film a majority of her interviews separate from her cast mates because they refused to be in the same room as her. Check out some highlights from part one of the reunion special below:
At his first campaign rally since a public spat erupted with the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sought to change the subject to economic issues and concerns he has about the course of the general election.
Samuel Ramani
Politics, Middle East
They’re on opposite sides in Syria—but that’s not stopping Putin.
Since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, relations between Russia and the Gulf Cooperation Council have deteriorated sharply due to disagreements between both actors over the future of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Russia has strongly supported Assad, claiming that his Baathist regime is a bulwark against Islamic extremism. By contrast, the Saudi-led GCC has actively supported Assad’s ouster... Читать дальше...
OMAHA -- Hillary Clinton brought her presidential campaign to red state Nebraska on Monday, focusing like a laser on metropolitan Omaha's 2nd Congressional District presidential electoral vote.
Sen. Bill Kintner posted on his Facebook page Monday afternoon a response to media inquiries for a comment on an investigation by the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission on his alleged use of his state computer last year to exchange…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook brought attention to the company’s growing interest in the augmented reality (AR) space during Apple’s Q2 2016 (fiscal Q3 2016) earnings call last week.
Addressing analysts, Cook mentioned that the company would be investing a lot in AR over the long run. The statement is not surprising considering reports that popular AR... Читать дальше...
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba wants to start negotiations with one or two countries following the G20 summit in September about its plan to create a global e-commerce platform, which company founder and chief Jack Ma says can help knock down trade barriers.
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There has been no shortage of stories of what actors did on the set of "Suicide Squad" — from Jared Leto's disturbing "gifts" to Margot Robbie giving tattoos — but the latest one is still pretty bizarre.
In an interview for the UK magazine Empire, as reported by Yahoo, actor Jai Courtney, who plays Captain Boomerang in the movie, said that on a Skype call with director David Ayer about the role he was on drugs and put out cigarettes on his arms.
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Francesco Galietti
Politics, Europe
Rome is on the losing end of a global struggle for influence.
At the latest mid-June St. Petersburg forum, commonly known as the “Russian Davos,” Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and a large delegation of senior members of his cabinet were greeted as guests of honor. It was only after showing up in St. Petersburg that Renzi also made a quick stop in New York to campaign for a permanent seat for Italy at the UN Security Council. The move did not pay out. Читать дальше...
SYDNEY — Forbes Carlile, a pioneering influence in the sport of swimming and the only person to have represented Australia at an Olympics first as a coach and then as an athlete, has died. He was 95. The Australian Olympic Committee on Tuesday said Carlile died after spending three weeks in a Sydney hospital. Carlile
A group of 30 lactating mothers decided to nurse their babies in the public to break the taboo of breastfeeding in the open.
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There’s nothing better for a filmmaker than when they're given the green light to make a movie. But as with everything in Hollywood, there’s a catch.
For director Jesse Moss ("The Overnighters"), the only way he could make a documentary about the classic 1970s movie “Smokey and the Bandit” was to also have its star involved.
“But I had never met Burt Reynolds,” Moss recently told Business Insider.
This led Moss to Jupiter, Florida, to find the reclusive 80-year-old legend and convince him to be in his movie. Читать дальше...
A little over a month after a female elephant was run over by a train in Madukkarai, the railways and forest department officials inspected a stretch of railway track which runs through the forests in the border area.
De Waddeneilanden zijn vooral voor Nederlanders een populaire vakantiebestemming. Vorig jaar wisten 1,3 miljoen toeristen de weg te vinden naar de eilanden. 80 procent van hen kwam uit eigen land, 15 procent uit Duitsland en 2 procent uit België.
Prime Minister Theresa May will outline her bid to reshape the British economy for a post-Brexit world, reviving industrial policy once more.
JoJo Fletcher is engaged after picking her one true love on the finale of The Bachelorette and you can watch the moment she got engaged right here! The 25-year-old reality star seemed to be conflicted about who she was going to choose, but she said she had the epiphany that she had been praying for [...]