(CNN)The defense team for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, has won access to hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information. In a Thursday ruling, the U.S. ArmyCourt of Criminal Appeals denied an appeal made by the prosecution regarding access to classified information ... Read More ... "It's anybody's guess ... The government has not told us what it's giving us," he said ... Gen ... Gen ... ....
The expansion of the universe is due to dark energy, a mysterious form of energy that surrounds us and permeates the entire cosmos. But its exact characteristics remain unknown, with most of what we know about dark energy coming from its effect on galaxies ... Astronomers used the size of galaxy clusters as “cosmic rulers,” and compared nearby clusters to far away ones ... ....
STUTTGART. Delegates from Germany's anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday backed an election manifesto that says Islam is not compatible with the country's constitution and calls for a ban on minarets and the burqa. The AfD, set up just three years ago, has been buoyed by Europe's migrant crisis, which saw the arrival of more than one million, mostly Muslim, migrants in Germany last year ... ....
WASHINGTON — Scrambling to resuscitate a nearly dead truce in Syria, the Obama administration has again been forced to turn to Russia for help, with little hope for the desired U.S. outcome ... Kerry spoke at length on Friday with Russian Foreign MinisterSergey Lavrov to that end, and had been hoping to meet with Lavrov soon, according to U.S. officials. Kerry was scheduled to arrive in Switzerland late Sunday for talks with U.N ... U.S....
Voters across Europe have got the message from the way in which Greece’s opposition to austerity was crushed. Greece is running out of money. The government in Athens is raiding the budgets of the health service and public utilities to pay salaries and pensions. Without fresh financial support it will struggle to make a debt payment due in July. No, this is not a piece from the summer of 2015 reprinted by mistake ... Then or now ... ....
Last week’s news out of Lausanne, Switzerland, may have sounded the death knell for NHL players taking part in the Winter Olympics. The NHL cleared its schedule to allow dozens of star players to participate in the last five Olympic Games, starting with Nagano in 1998... Many around the league — including, it seems, the vast majority of players — would be sad to miss the chance to compete for their countries ... ....
Kasahara, 25, solicited his Giants teammates to bet on baseball games, and collected betting money from them, according to sources ...Empty pledge ... He was quoted as saying ... In late April of 2014, he brought in Kyosuke Takagi, and in June that year Ryuya Matsumoto. Both Takagi and Matsumoto were Giants pitchers ... Kasahara allegedly received lists of the handicap ratio from Saito via cell phone, and showed the data to Takagi and Matsumoto ... + -....
Five Collier County high school volleyball players made both the Florida Athletic Coaches Association's All-State and All-Academic teams. Lely had three — Jessica Ricciardelli, Kaitlyn Ziegelmaier, and KatherineMoss — joined by Seacrest's Piper Matsumoto and Naples' Jenna Alderuccio. Seacrest's Charleigh Crews and Emily Hancock joined those five on the All-State team ... ....
Oki Matsumoto Proposed to be Added to the Board. PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE.MA) today announced that its Board of Directors has nominated Oki Matsumoto for election as an independent director at the company's June 28, 2016 annual meeting of stockholders ...Matsumoto began his career at Salomon Brothers, before joining Goldman Sachs in 1990....
There's legitimate intrigue at the top of the NFL draft this year ... Then it gets really tricky. PODCAST. The ultimateNFL Mock Draft breakdown.. Grandstanding. A Yahoo Sports podcast ... Sign up now] ... (Yahoo Sports graphic by AmberMatsumoto)....
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. the world’s largest steelmaker by market value, said profit fell by almost a third in the twelve months through March and that it couldn’t give a target for the year ahead because the outlook for raw material and steel prices remains unclear ...Kobe Steel Ltd ...Japan’s No ... analyst Yuji Matsumoto called the company’s forecast “cautious” given the steel price rally this month ... ....
(Source. TDK Corporation) CorporateOfficers (changes in corporate officer positions, new appointment and retirement) ... Mr. Kamigama will become a Chairman and Representative Director on Jun. 29, 2016. New Executive Lineup. As a result of the above changes, the new executive lineup as of June 29, 2016 will be as follows. Directors Representative Director Takehiro Kamigama ... Director Noboru Saito ... (Partner of Mori Hamada & MatsumotoLPC, ... Ltd.)....
The Los Angeles Rams have a difficult decision, and they're not letting anyone know what their decision is ...View photo. (Yahoo Sports graphic by AmberMatsumoto). - - - - - - -....