International

ST JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands—As Hurricane Irma bore down on the Caribbean last week, Laurel Brannick, a park ranger on far-flung St. John Island, flipped through news channels to see how she might be affected. It appeared the U.S. Virgin Islands didn’t exist. “The weather channels didn’t even include us,” she said. “All they kept

A Republican senator introduced legislation Tuesday to cut down on the amount of money ex-presidents siphon from taxpayers, looking to limit their pensions and office expenses. Sen. Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican, said that while presidents should keep getting taxpayer-funded security details, they don’t need the more than $1 million in pensions and office equipment that

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee WASHINGTON: As Sen. John McCain of Arizona readies for what is almost certainly the last battle of his illustrious life, he appears to be casting aside tactical political positions and striking for the heart of what he believes best for the country. He did

WASHINGTON — After a spokeswoman initially suggested his Twitter account had been hacked, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says a staffer is to blame for an “inadvertent” like of a pornography video on his social media account late Monday. “It was a staffing issue and it was inadvertent. It was a mistake,” Cruz told reporters at

Federal inmate 40892-424 has his voice back. More than five years after he went to prison for corruption, disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is speaking out for the first time since beginning his sentence. Details of Blagojevich’s first prison interview were published online late Monday by Chicago magazine and will appear in its October

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned Tuesday, just hours after new allegations that he had sexually abused a younger cousin decades ago in New York. Murray, a former Democratic state legislator elected mayor in 2013, said in a statement that he is resigning effective 5 p.m. PDT Wednesday. “While the allegations against me are