By Elaine Kurtenbach The Associated Press TOKYO — Members of a Pacific Rim trade initiative rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump are to hold working-level talks Wednesday in the Japanese mountain resort town of Hakone, west of Tokyo. The three-day meeting among envoys from the 11 remaining members of the […]
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The Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam — Police in northern Vietnam have seized nearly 3 tons of ivory smuggled from South Africa in the latest action taken against the illegal trade. Thanh Hoa provincial police said the ivory was found in boxes on a truck stopped by police early Saturday morning. […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s eldest son changed his account over the weekend of a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, saying Sunday that the woman told him she had information about Democrat Hillary Clinton. A statement from Donald Trump Jr. one […]
By Jill Colvin @Byline 2:The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump appears to be backing away from the idea of working with Russia to create a “cyber security unit” to guard against election hacking. Trump tweeted Sunday morning about discussing such a unit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yet […]
By Rahim Faiez The Associated Press KABUL — Six female students from war-torn Afghanistan who had hoped to participate in an international robotics competition in the U.S. this month will have to watch via video link after their visa applications were denied not once, but twice. The girls wanted to […]
By The Culinary Institute Of America The Associated Press You need a vacation. All of you. Even if you just got home from a 20-day Caribbean cruise, you probably still need a vacation. But as the graphs and charts and news reports have been reminding us, Americans aren’t great at […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. has shared a new doctored video of his father attacking CNN. Trump Jr. tweeted a video of a doctored clip of the 1986 military thriller “Top Gun” Saturday. In it, President Donald Trump’s face is superimposed over Tom Cruise’s character as he […]
The Associated Press The president of the U.N. conference drafting what could be the first treaty to ban nuclear weapons says 129 countries have agreed on the text, which is expected to be formally adopted Friday although all nuclear-armed nations are boycotting the effort. Elayne Whyte Gomez, Costa Rica’s ambassador […]
By Kelly P. Kissel The Associated Press Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy. The Oklahoma City-based business agreed to pay a $3 […]
By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea’s president reiterated he’s willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even as he condemned the North’s first intercontinental ballistic missile test-launch this week as a “reckless” move that incurred punishment by the international community. During […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Colon cancer. Uterine cancer. Pancreatic cancer. Whatever the tumour, the more gene mutations lurking inside, the better chance your immune system has to fight back. That’s the premise behind the recent approval of a landmark drug, the first cancer therapy ever cleared […]
By Linda A. Johnson The Associated Press The maker of opioid painkiller Opana ER is pulling the drug off the market at the request of federal regulators because it’s being abused. Endo International PLC said Thursday it will voluntarily stop selling the pills, approved for use in patients with severe, […]
