The Trump administration on Tuesday urged Canada and Saudi Arabia to settle an escalating diplomatic fight but avoided voicing support for the women’s rights activists whose jailing is at the heart of the dispute.
Continue reading...He was hanged for helping slaves rebel. Now Connecticut officials are asking Virginia for a pardon
(Contributed) He was hanged for helping slaves rebel. Now Connecticut officials are asking Virginia for a pardon Aug. 5, 2018 Waving a white flag of surrender after the failed raid on Harpers Ferry, Aaron Dwight Stevens was riddled with bullets to the face, neck and chest...
Continue reading...Pentagon begins identifying soldiers’ remains from North Korea, a process that could take years
The Pentagon notified the family of a U.S. service member missing since the Korean War that his dog tags were among the human remains recently turned over by North Korea, officials said Thursday.
Continue reading...Saudi Arabia’s women are allowed to drive, but not everyone is happy about it
Reporting from Beirut — From the very first day 31-year-old Salma Barakati got behind the wheel of her car after Saudi Arabia lifted the ban on women driving, the men in her village near Mecca would gather around her and unleash a torrent of insults. The insults...
Continue reading...The world’s largest solar farm rises in the remote Egyptian desert
In 1913 on the outskirts of Cairo, an inventor from Philadelphia named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, using the abundant Egyptian sunshine to pump 6,000 gallons of water a minute from the Nile to irrigate a nearby cotton field.
Continue reading...What you need to know about Michael McFaul, the ex-U.S. envoy drawn into the center of another Trump-Russia flap
Reporting from Washington — When Michael McFaul served as U.S. ambassador to Moscow under the Obama administration, he unexpectedly found himself the subject of a concerted Russian propaganda campaign, accused of plotting to overthrow leader Vladimir Putin as well as pedophilia. It was in many ways a...
Continue reading...Once banned, the facial tattoo reappears as a cultural asset and political weapon in Taiwan
Reporting from Xincheng Township, Taiwan — As a child, Kimi Sibal got his first lesson on the significance and the stigma of the facial tattoo when he asked his grandmother about the strange markings on her face. Facial tattoos had been banned in Taiwan by Japanese colonists...
Continue reading...Blast from the past: Motorcyclist Travis Pastrana jumps over Caesars Palace fountains, outdoing Evel Knievel
Travis Pastrana didn’t jump the Caesars Palace fountains with a motorcycle Sunday.
Continue reading...A Washington state town had become listless. Then a bar came to town and everything began to change
Reporting from CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON — In the southwest Washington town of Centralia, hard by a set of railroad tracks, stands the Olympic Club, famous as the place where the notorious train robber Roy Gardner was finally collared in 1921 after a series of brash heists and escapes...
Continue reading...The world has never seen a Category 6 hurricane. But the day may be coming
As a ferocious hurricane bears down on South Florida, water managers desperately lower canals in anticipation of 4 feet of rain.
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