International

Manafort Talked Trump Jr. Meeting Months Ago

Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading one of the investigations into Russia’s meddling in last year’s election and its alleged ties to President Donald Trump’s campaign, has been trying to “squeeze” former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort for information, Bloomberg reported Thursday evening. The report, citing “people familiar with the matter,” indicates that Manafort has

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International, USA

Veterans group sues Pentagon for not protecting private military records of millions of troops

WASHINGTON — A veterans organization is suing the Pentagon for exposing private details about troops’ military service on “a truly massive scale” due to lax security on one of its websites. The lawsuit filed by Vietnam Veterans of America charges that a Defense Department website “is currently exposing private details about the military service of

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USA

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta declared the winner of heated election

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday was officially declared the winner of a heated election, which an opposition coalition claims to have won. The electoral commission announced that Kenyatta won just over 54 percent of the vote Tuesday, compared with 45 percent for his rival, Raila Odinga. Leaders of the opposition National

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International

Trump escalates the Republican blame game, but it doesn’t help his agenda in Congress

WASHINGTON — Republicans tried, after the collapse of their long campaign to end Obamacare, to put a good face forward as they pressed on to tax reform and other issues on their ambitious legislative agenda. But they just couldn’t help themselves. The blame game launched quickly. Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., suggested that the House

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USA

Austrians tread carefully as underfoot Holocaust memorials remain controversial

For the past 20 years Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, have peppered the idyllic town of Salzburg, a reminder of the city’s victims. But does anyone notice? By Noah Lederman SALZBURG, Austria — Let the dead trip the people into remembering — that was the committee’s first proposal for how the Stolpersteine plaques should be installed

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International, Jewish History

Massive caves in southern Brazil are actually ancient ground sloth burrows

Usually, tunnels are made either by human engineers or flowing water. But near the town of Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, there are tunnels large enough to drive a car in that were dug by neither – instead, these are the work of ancient, giant sloths. Image credits Amilcar Adamy. The massive burrows are estimated to be

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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share

As a drill and potential warning, China’s navy just fired dozens of missiles near North Korea

China held a massive live fire exercise near the Korean Peninsula. Fire Away Type 054A frigates, including the “515” Binzhou, fire off C-803 anti-ship missiles during the exercises Aug. 4-8. CCTV13 Over the weekend, China’s army, navy, and air force conducted a wide range of naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, close to North Korea.

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International

Trump threatens Venezuela with ‘military option’

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Friday threatened military action against Venezuela Friday in a comment sure to roil the divided South American nation and alarm its neighbors. Trump made the statement at a news conference on the growing concerns of military action in North Korea, immediately raising the specter of United States intervening in two

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International, USA

‘Evita’ doesn’t tell the whole story

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Welcome to Argentina, 1952. Humble laborers meander into a Spanish colonial church representing the country in microcosm. Argentina is a developing nation of backbreaking labor and wealthy elites. When the news breaks that their beloved first lady, Eva Perón has succumbed to cancer, the people cry out for

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Eric George Tauber, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

U.S. underwrites Iran’s expansion in Lebanon

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States persists in treating Lebanon as if it were a country.  Congress provides U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and trains the LAF’s officers.  And now we’re fighting alongside the LAF, apparently to oust ISIS from encampments inside Lebanon, where they have moved across

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA