Sailor killed at Pearl Harbor, now identified, gets funeral
HONOLULU — A sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor has been buried with full military honors nearly 75 years later.
HONOLULU — A sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor has been buried with full military honors nearly 75 years later.
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The White House is interviewing five potential nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death last month of Justice Antonin Scalia, a source familiar with the process told Reuters on Wednesday.
The source said those under consideration were federal judges Sri Srinivasan, Jane Kelly, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Paul Watford and Merrick Garland.
The five have been reported to be on the short list of potential nominees, but the source said they were the only ones currently under consideration. Читать дальше...
Colombia—site of the most infections of the mosquito-borne Zika virus outside Brazil—has seen a sharp increase in cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, which can cause potentially severe paralysis.
A total eclipse of the heart.
A total solar eclipse was filmed by an astronomer from a plane that had an optimal view of the rare event and he was out-of-his-mind happy about it.
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The video, and enthusiastic commentary, was created by Joe Rao — an associate astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History — during this week's rare total solar eclipse.
Months ago, Rao figured out that an Alaska Airlines... Читать дальше...
A total eclipse of the heart.
A total solar eclipse was filmed by an astronomer from a plane that had an optimal view of the rare event and he was out-of-his-mind happy about it.
vine.co
The video, and enthusiastic commentary, was created by Joe Rao — an associate astronomer at the American Museum of Natural History — during this week's rare total solar eclipse.
Months ago, Rao figured out that an Alaska Airlines flight... Читать дальше...
Sanders was quick to dispute the characterization.
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Читать дальше...She said she didn't lie to victims' families and that information was "changing literally by the hour" after the attacks.
Jorge Ramos dropped the B-word at the Univision debate Wednesday night: Benghazi. The audience responded with its own B-word: booo.
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Both candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president said definitively on Wednesday that they will not deport children if elected.
Univision debate moderator Jorge Ramos asked Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders about deportation at the Wednesday-night Democratic debate.
Ramos pressed Clinton repeatedly on the issue of child deportation until she said, plainly, "I will not deport children."
"I will not deport children. I do not want to deport family members either... Читать дальше...
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was charged in a money laundering investigation led by Sao Paulo state prosecutors.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (centre) in Jordan. Salah Malkawi/Getty Images Micro-donations platform Activistic has signed Church Army UK to its soon-to-launch Ralli app, providing an entry into the significant church giving market.
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Six-times Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt helped announce the inaugural Racers Grand Prix in Kingston set for June 11 and hinted he might produce a special performance on Jamaica soil.
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TOMIOKA, Japan - Photo taken March 9, 2016, shows a barricade placed on a street in the northeastern Japan town of To...
This article has been developed in collaboration with Heads Up an initiative of beyondblue and the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance. Businesses need to get on board with work-life balance | Getty Images Technology has unshackled work from the traditional 9-5. Email and the cloud allow and encourage us to work from anywhere, at any time. But the expectation to "always be on" reduces the quality of personal time, adding to stress and burnout as workers aren't able to fully recover from the day. Читать дальше...
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SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- North Korea said Thursday it will nullify all cross-border agreements on economic cooperation and liquidate South Korean assets in the country in response to Seoul's latest sanctions. "From this moment, we will view all
SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- A historical television drama on a great scientist in the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) has been exported to 12 countries, including Japan and China, its producer said Thursday. "Jang Yeong-sil: The Greatest Scientist of Jo
SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- The head of South Korea's top swimming governing body will submit his resignation this month following its executives' corruption scandals, a national swimming official said Thursday. According to the Korea Swimming Fed
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By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- The Michelin Guide, an international benchmark of good food, said Thursday it will publish a guide of restaurants and hotels in Seoul later this year to introduce the dynamic Korean culinary scene and talent
SEOUL, March 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean shares traded higher late Thursday morning, led by gains in Samsung Electronics and other large-cap issues. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) rose 11.6 points, or 0.59 percent, to 1,964
Yesterday was International Women's Day, and here in the U.S. this month is Women's History Month, so it's an opportune time to declare that Caitlyn Jenner is just another woman, and, even more importantly, just another human being.
Over the past week the news broke in an interview that Jenner hopes to be Ted Cruz's "trans ambassador," and on the season premiere of "I am Cait" she made more declarations to the fact that she's a proud conservative and that Republicans don't hate trans people. Читать дальше...
"This is not true," his lawyer said.