(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. is looking into the fate of a Saudi writer missing and feared murdered but expressed reservations over calls to withhold further U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, warning that such a move “would be hurting us.” Decades of close U.S.-Saudi relations, which […]
Daily Archives: October 11, 2018
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It seems you can’t get through a week without a smartphone being launched. We’ve already seen Google’s Pixel 3 and new budget Honor X unveiled this week and in just a few days Huawei will reveal its new Mate series. But before that, Samsung is holding a major today where […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Neil Armstrong went down in history as the first person on the moon, but it was the personal sacrifices and challenges along his journey that most interested the makers of movie “First Man.” “First Man,” opening worldwide this week, places audiences inside the bone-rattling, deafening, claustrophobic […]
(Reuters) – For the fourth year running, Stanford University tops Reuters’ ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries. 1. Stanford University. The Hoover Tower rises above […]
Joseph James DeAngelo, the suspected Golden State Killer Randy Pench/TNS/Newscom By Jocelyn KaiserOct. 11, 2018 , 2:00 PM If you’re white, live in the United States, and a distant relative has uploaded their DNA to a public ancestry database, there’s a good chance an internet sleuth can identify you from […]
By Erik StokstadOct. 11, 2018 , 2:00 PM Mikael Fremont was up to his shoulders in rapeseed, looking pleased. The bright yellow flowers had faded, giving way to long slender pods that would yield valuable canola oil, as well as protein meal for livestock. While his spaniel darted about the […]
Evgeny Kuznetsov finished with one goal and three assists while Alex Ovechkin scored twice as the Washington Capitals defeated the visiting Vegas Golden Knights 5-2 Wednesday in a rematch of last spring’s Stanley Cup Final. Oct 10, 2018; Washington, DC, USA; Washington Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov (92) skates with the […]
Aug. 15. Crazy Rich Asians, a story about a woman who discovers her boyfriend’s family in Singapore is insanely rich, opened in the US. It starred an all-Asian cast and an Asian-American lead — the first movie to do so in 25 years. It was an immediate hit. It took […]