C.I.A. Chief’s Meeting With Kim Jong-un Is Latest Step in Winding Path to Talks Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director and nominee to be the next secretary of state, traveled to North Korea and met with its leader, Kim Jong-un, the strongest indicator to date that plans for direct talks between […]
City employee, supervisor placed on leave over military flags flap in Jacksonville As a petition is posted on change.org demanding a Jacksonville city inspector be fired for citing a Westside store for flying military flags, Mayor Lenny Curry has put her on administrative leave after video of her finger-wagging confrontation […]
Mattis Wanted Congressional Approval Before Striking Syria. He Was Overruled. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged President Trump to get congressional approval before the United States launched airstrikes against Syria last week, but was overruled by Mr. Trump, who wanted a rapid and dramatic response, military and administration officials said. Mr. […]
Father Of Gynecology,’ Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC New York City has removed a statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th-century gynecologist who experimented on enslaved women, from a pedestal in Central Park. The statue will be moved to a cemetery in Brooklyn where Sims, […]
SCOTUS nixes part of law requiring deportation of immigrants convicted of some crimes. The Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated a provision of federal law that requires the mandatory deportation of immigrants who have been convicted of some “crimes of violence,” holding that the law is unconstitutionally vague. The case, Sessions […]
GOP fears rise over West Virginia Senate fiasco Senate Republicans are escalating their attacks on West Virginia Senate GOP candidate Don Blankenship, increasingly worried that the coal baron and ex-prisoner will blow a winnable race against Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. Republicans see West Virginia as a prime pickup opportunity in […]
One dead after engine explodes midair on Southwest flight An engine on a Southwest Airlines flight with 149 people aboard exploded and broke apart in mid-air on Tuesday, killing one passenger and nearly sucking another out of a shattered window, according to airline and federal authorities and witness and media […]
CIA Chief Pompeo Met Kim to Lay Ground for Trump Summit CIA Director Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea a few weeks ago to meet Kim Jong Un to prepare for a possible summit with President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter, raising optimism the meeting […]
Barbara Bush, Wife of 41st President and Mother of 43rd, Dies at 92 Barbara Bush, the widely admired wife of one president and the fiercely loyal mother of another, died Tuesday evening at her home in Houston. She was 92. Jim McGrath, a family spokesman, announced the death in a […]
Walmart’s Website Is Getting a Major Makeover Walmart (WMT, +0.95%) may be a mass merchandise store but it doesn’t want its website looking like one. The company on Tuesday unveiled a redesign of Walmart.com coming in early May that features more sophisticated fonts and photography and more information and suggestions […]
