Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor with President Obama later this month, becoming the first Japanese leader to visit the site of the attack 75 years ago that killed more than 2,300 U.S. servicemen and thrust the U.S. into World War II. Mr. Abe announced the visit Monday, six months after Mr. […]
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International, USAOAKLAND, Calif. — They had come together out of their love for electronic music and the underground scene that it fostered. The concert had been in the works for almost two months, billed on social media as a tour for the musicians associated with the Los Angeles-based label 100 percent Silk. The location was secret
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USAWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Ben Carson, a rival in the GOP presidential primary who became a top supporter, to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Trump chose Carson despite the pediatric neurosurgeon’s protestations that he lacked the experience to run a federal agency. The announcement Monday that Carson has been
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USAPrime Minsiter Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the 16th annual Saban forum at the Brookings Institute Sunday. The Prime Minister was asked during the forum what his plans to deal with the threat of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons will be after President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Netanyahu reiterated his longstanding position on the threat Iran poses to
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Middle East, USAHe’s one of the country’s best-known Democrats, but that won’t stop Jimmy Carter from watching a Republican be sworn in as the next president of the United States. Carter, 92, said Sunday he’ll attend president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington D.C. on January 20. The former president and Georgia governor made the announcement at the
Then-Lt. Gen. James Mattis in Iraq. SIMI VALLEY, CALIF.: You might not think a man nicknamed “Mad Dog” would put America’s allies at ease. But that’s the buzz here at the Reagan Library’s annual defense conference, where Donald Trump‘s choice of Gen. James Mattis to run the Pentagon met with enthusiastic praise from the right,
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International, USAUS President-Elect Donald Trump has blasted Beijing’s monetary policy and its activities in the South China Sea in a Twitter outburst that will do nothing to mend fences after his controversial phone call with the leader of Taiwan. On TV over the weekend, Vice President-Elect Mike Pence played down the significance of Trump’s conversation with
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International, USABud Selig, who was commissioner of baseball during a resurgence of interest but also the “steroid era,” and John Schuerholz, architect of championship teams with the Kansas City Royals and the Atlanta Braves, were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. The selections were made by the veterans committee at Oxon Hill, Md.,
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Sports & Competitions, USASome 175 immigrants were approved for citizenship even though their names weren’t properly run through the FBI’s name-check databases, potentially missing red flags that may have disqualified them from naturalization, the Obama administration admitted this weekend. Homeland Security officials blamed computer code for the problem, which affected about 15,000 applications in total. The problem was
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Mexican migration to the U.S. is in decline. The Pew Hispanic Research Center has found that since 2009, more than one million native-born Mexicans living in the U.S. returned to Mexico. But many other Mexicans never crossed the U.S.-Mexican border in the first place. Why are some Mexican
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International, USASen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who was a member of the so-called Gang of Eight senators who forged a bipartisan immigration reform measure, says he will not be part of a new bipartisan group attempting to protect DREAMers should President-elect Donald Trump rescind President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration. Obama established the deferred Action for
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International, USAThe Obama administration bowed Sunday to protesters by pulling its previously issued permit for the Dakota Access pipeline, leaving the company unable to complete the project for now and pushing the headache to the Trump administration. The decision announced by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe calls for E nergy Transfer Partners to reroute the 1,172-mile,
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USAKeith Ellison WASHINGTON – The Democratic National Committee is having a big problem finding a new face to fill its critical vacancy as chairman in the wake of its loss of the presidency and its continued minority role in both houses of Congress in 2016. U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first black Muslim ever
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Middle East, USAOutgoing US Secretary State John Kerry expressed disappointment Sunday that his efforts over the past four years have not put an end to the construction of homes in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Speaking at the Saban Forum, Kerry said that Israel is “heading to a place of danger” and that the chances for
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