Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Over the last few days, a lot has been said and written about how the world has changed and how this event was the birth of live TV news coverage. It is also an event that remains in one's memory, much as 9/11 is for future generations. As I have done on 9/11, allow me to share...
WASHINGTON: Rules against making cellphone calls during airline flights are "outdated," and it's time to change them, US government regulators said on Thursday, drawing immediate howls of protest from flight attendants, airline officials and others. Tom Wheeler, the new chairman of the Federal...
The U.S. says it plans to sell the last of its ownership stake in automaker General Motors by the end of the year. The government owned 61 percent of the world's second biggest auto manufacturer five years ago....
After several intraday crosses during the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) finished above 16,000 for the first time. Today's milestone move for the Dow came after a late-day slide on Wednesday. Stocks started off strong due to encouraging jobless claims reports, then took off on news...
A San Jose jury ruled on Thursday that Samsung owes Apple an additional $290 million in damages for infringing on several of Apple's patents, according to multiple reports. Apple was...
VOA News The president of the Central African Republic says he is in contact with fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony, and that Kony wants to surrender. A spokesman for PresidentMichel Djotodia says Djotodia has held a phone conversation with Kony, and that...
Updated: November 21, 2013 12:39PM BAGHDAD (AP) — A truck bomb tore through an outdoor vegetable market in northeastern Iraq, the deadliest of a series of attacks Thursday that killed at least 48 people, officials said. The explosion in the town of Sadiyah, some 90 miles northeast of Baghdad, is the...
MILAN (AP) — The Milan court that convicted Silvio Berlusconi of paying an underage prostitute for sex at his infamous Bunga Bunga parties said Thursday in remarkably raunchy detail that proof of intercourse wasn't necessary to find him guilty. The court, in a 326-page document supporting the June...
PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday that Central African Republic was "on the verge of genocide" and it expected the United Nations to give Paris and the African Union permission to intervene. Central African Republic, a landlocked nation of 4.6 million people, has slid into chaos since mainly...
