North Korea has accelerated its controversial missile programme in recent months, carrying out a series of provocative launches. Despite worldwide condemnation, hermit state leader Kim Jong-un has continued to increase the power of his arsenal and is now directly threatening to attack his Western enemies. Last week the hermit state […]
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When he was locked up in Texas awaiting trial for killing and dismembering his neighbor, real-estate scion Robert Durst taped himself practicing testimony — and then pressed his wife on whether he sounded “sincere.” “It sounds like an A plus?” Durst asked Debrah Lee Charatan in a jailhouse conversation that […]
The country’s biggest fuel transporter said Thursday that it hopes to resume moving fuel through hurricane-devastated Texas to the East Coast by the weekend, raising hopes that a severe national Labor Day gasoline shortage will be averted. Colonial Pipeline Co. shut down its line carrying diesel and jet fuel from […]
At 200,000 light years across, NGC 1365 is one of the largest known galaxiesESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/ R. Gendler, J-E. Ovaldsen, C. Thöne, and C. Feron By Ken Croswell You may be able to thank the Milky Way’s spiral arms for supplying Earth with a fair share of the vital element […]
Yahoo must face nationwide litigation brought on behalf of well over 1 billion users who said their personal information was compromised in three massive data breaches, a federal judge has ruled. Wednesday night’s decision from U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, was a setback for efforts by […]
WASHINGTON –DREAMers and their allies have been holding an around-the-clock vigil in front of the White House to pressure President Donald Trump to continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, program. It has shielded nearly 800,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation and has allowed them to work and study […]
People rally in a bid to save the DACA immigrant protection programmeAlbin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images By Mallory Locklear US legislation that protects some immigrants from deportation has been good for the mental health of their children. But the programme is under threat, with president Donald Trump expected to […]
Investigators for Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the office of New York’s Attorney General are coordinating their probes of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort’s finances. A senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the matter confirms the cooperation, which was first reported by Politico. The official said coordination […]