Taiwanese author and political campaigner Li Ao dies, aged 82 He passed away peacefully on Sunday morning at the Veterans General Hospital in the Taiwan capital Taipei following a battle with brain cancer. The 82 year-old, who was born in Harbin and brought up in Beijing, was diagnosed with a […]
We’re Losing the Fight’: Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis CARACAS, Venezuela — His family thought he just had a bad cold, nothing serious. But Victor Martínez kept getting worse. By mid-January, he lay in a hospital ward, wasting away from tuberculosis. A month later, at his wake, stunned relatives […]
For Russia’s triumphant Putin, more muscle-flexing likely, especially on international stage A day after his not-at-all-surprising landslide win in Russia’s presidential election, Vladimir Putin slipped comfortably into a favored role on Monday: that of the magnanimous victor. In an ornate conference room deep inside the Kremlin, with golden draperies as […]
U.S.-South Korea Military Drills to Test Kim’s Desire for Talks Annual U.S.-South Korea military exercises will start on April 1, in a move that risks irking North Korea ahead of planned summits with the leaders of South Korea and the U.S. The exercises on the Korean Peninsula would be of […]
Sudan, World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino, Dies Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya Monday, leaving his species one step closer to complete extinction, even as a group of scientists undertake an unprecedented effort to try to keep this animal from vanishing entirely. Sudan was […]
Woman rejecting husband’s calls after he was found in Mexico with missing teen A 45-year-old man who police say ran off to Mexico with a teenage girl was being held in Miami after he was returned to the U.S. over the weekend. The lawyer for Kevin Esterly’s wife told CBS […]
Stormy Daniels payment not about Donald Trump’s campaign, Michael Cohen says Attorney Michael Cohen, who has said he paid porn actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about any relationship she might have had with his client Donald Trump, told Vanity Fair that the payment had nothing to do with […]
Trump calls for death penalty for drug dealers but says country might not be ready President Donald Trump doubled down on his call for the death penalty for drug dealers in a speech in New Hampshire Monday, making the case that such a zero-tolerance policy would fix the nation’s drug […]
Sworn To Secrecy: Trump’s History Of Using Nondisclosure Agreements President Trump may have brought one of his favorite tools for dealing with staff in the business world with him into the White House: confidentiality agreements. As a businessman, Trump routinely required employees to sign agreements promising not to reveal secrets […]
Source: Nikolas Cruz’ brother arrested for trespassing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High The younger brother of Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz was arrested Monday for trespassing on the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a source confirmed to CNN. Zachary Cruz, 18, said he wanted to “reflect on the school […]
