July 17 (UPI) — The remains of 22 servicemen killed on a Japanese-controlled island during World War II were repatriated to the United States Thursday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said. “Today, we welcome home more than 20 American servicemen still unaccounted for from the battle of Tarawa during World War …
FRANKFURT AN DER ODER, Germany — “Don’t make me cry, too,” Shefaa Alfrag told a sobbing 3-year-old Zoey. It was the last day of Alfrag’s teaching internship at a concrete-block preschool on Germany’s eastern border, and the two lingered in the doorway as Alfrag patted Zoey’s back. Not long ago, the …
John Paul Stevens, who served on the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010 and died Tuesday, at the age of ninety-nine, belonged to a vanished tradition on the Court and in American life: moderate Republicanism. By the time he left the Court, during the tenure of John Roberts as Chief Justice, Stevens …
Congress is heading into another risky debt-ceiling showdown — a situation that a decade ago was unimaginable and has now become dishearteningly routine. At the same time, the federal debt as a share of the economy is the highest it has ever been other than just after World War II. Yet our …
Unionized campaign organizers working for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential effort are battling with its management, arguing that the compensation and treatment they are receiving does not meet the standards Sanders espouses in his rhetoric, according to internal communications. Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be …
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Accompanied by some of Puerto Rico’s most famous performers, thousands of people marched to the governor’s residence in San Juan on Wednesday chanting demands for Gov. Ricardo Rosselló to resign after the leak of online chats that show him making misogynistic slurs and mocking his …
When completed, the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea’s summit is expected to be the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. But its construction has drawn heated opposition. Construction was set to begin this week on a giant telescope on the barren summit of Mauna Kea, a volcano on Hawaii’s …
New minister blames currency’s surge for slowdown in arrivals Pitak aims for talks with the central bank, finance ministry Thailand’s tourism minister has blamed a surge in the baht for sapping tourist arrivals into Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy and says he’ll take up the matter with the central bank, highlighting …
LONDON — With just a week left in power, Prime Minister Theresa May used a valedictory speech on Wednesday to denounce the rancor, divisiveness and “absolutism” of politics both internationally and in Britain, where Brexit continues to tear apart her Conservative Party as it has since she took the job …
The former president is appearing before a high-profile commission of inquiry into corruption during his time in office. Cape Town, South Africa – On Monday, after almost a year of explosive hearings, former South African president Jacob Zuma has finally appeared before a high-profile commission of inquiry looking into the alleged rampant state corruption he presided …
