Shortage of Snow Aside, China Jumps Into Bid for 2022 Winter Games
CHONGLI, China — Out here, in the land of China’s Winter Olympics ambitions, there is more propaganda than snow. Some traces of white cling to the brown hills like dandruff,…
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Homeless Man Arrested In Arson Fire At Houston Islamic Center
HOUSTON, Feb 16 (Reuters) – A homeless man has been arrested and charged with arson for a fire that destroyed a building at an Islamic institute in Houston, fire officials…
C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons
The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure…
UN Security Council Demands Houthi Rebels Relinquish Control Of Yemen Government, End Violence
The United Nations Security Council on Sunday unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that Shiite rebels immediately relinquish control of Yemen’s government in a crisis that has pushed the Arab world’s…
Suicide Attackers Stage Deadly Assault on Pakistani Mosque
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Heavily armed militants killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 40 after they stormed into a Shiite mosque during Friday Prayer in a suburb of…
ISIS militants seize western Iraqi town, menace base housing U.S. personnel
Now they’re closing in on the strategic Ayn al-Assad Air Base, only about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Al-Baghdadi, the security officials said, and Iraqi forces there are calling for…
New York Archdiocese Parishioners See System of Secrets as They Fight Church Closings
For aggrieved parishioners at churches ordered closed or merged by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan last November, it seemed like a simple task: Get a copy of the formal decree of…
Military Approves Hormone Treatment For Chelsea Manning
Defense Department officials say hormone treatment for gender reassignment has been approved for Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst convicted of espionage for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website….
White House Stalled ISIS Rescue. Foley, Sotloff, and Mueller Died.
The U.S. government obtained intelligence on the possible location of American captives held by ISIS in Syria last year, but Obama administration officials waited nearly a month to launch a…
Measles Diagnoses Rise To 11 In Illinois
ELGIN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois public health officials are now reporting 11 people have diagnosed with measles. – A notice on the college website says the student attended classes Feb….
FBI director to speak on police, race relations
It’s a subject Comey and the FBI have largely sidestepped except in the context of civil rights investigations. Comey is expected to say they police officers aren’t inherently prone to…
Judge Behind Alabama Marriage Equality Carries On Family Legacy Of Advancing Civil Rights
WASHINGTON — On Monday, Alabama became the 37th state where same-sex couples could legally get married. The person who paved the way for this historic moment was Callie Granade, a…
Obama to Bring Most Military Personnel Fighting Ebola Home, Officials Say
WASHINGTON — President Obama will announce Wednesday that he is withdrawing almost all the American troops who were sent to West Africa to help contain the spread of the Ebola…
Venezuela Announces Plan to Relax Currency Controls
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan officials on Tuesday announced details of what they said would be a free market in which people and businesses could exchange local currency for dollars —…
Obama To Ask Congress For New War Authorization With Limited Ground Troops
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is expected to ask Congress as soon as Wednesday for new authority to fight Islamic State militants, including the ability to deploy limited U.S. ground…
20,000 Foreign Fighters Flock To Syria, Iraq
Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from…
Key Premise Of Obamacare Lawsuit Contradicted By Email Senate Aide Sent In 2010
The premise of the latest legal attack on Obamacare has always been shaky. An email that a key Senate staffer wrote in January 2010 would appear to make it even…
3 New Measles Cases Reported In Suburban Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) — Health officials say three more cases of measles have been confirmed in suburban Chicago, bringing the total number of cases to eight. – Common symptoms include fever,…
Over 100 Cases Of Measles Confirmed In California
LOS ANGELES, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A total of 107 cases of measles have been confirmed in California, more than a third of them linked to an outbreak that began…
Judge Threatens Plan for Puerto Rico to Avert Financial Catastrophe
The law, known as the Recovery Act, was meant to give Puerto Rico’s public corporations protections similar to bankruptcy. Unlike American cities like Detroit, which used federal bankruptcy law to…
Lawsuits Claim Ferguson And Another Missouri Town Are Jailing Poor People For Profit
Feb 9 (Reuters) – Ferguson, Missouri and a second St. Louis suburb are being accused in separate lawsuits of operating a “debtors’ prison scheme,” illegally jailing poor people who are…
Muddy waters cloud search for AirAsia Flight QZ8501
The diving teams who made their way to the bottom of the sea Sunday encountered muddy waters with zero visibility, according to officials. The Indonesian Navy has sent special equipment…
Iranian Officials Say Now Is The Time For A Nuclear Deal
With an approaching deadline on reaching a nuclear deal with Tehran, Iranian officials on Sunday signaled a willingness to come to an agreement, with Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif telling…
Bruce Jenner Involved in Deadly Car Crash in Malibu
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said the former Olympian Bruce Jenner was in one of the three cars involved in a crash on the Pacific Coast…
Bruce Jenner Unhurt in 3-Vehicle Malibu Crash That Killed 1
MALIBU, Calif. — Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials say former Olympian Bruce Jenner was in one of the cars involved in a three-vehicle crash on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu…
Measles cases at Chicago-area day care center rise to 5
Health officials had said earlier in the week that two children under age 1 who attended the KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine, Illinois, tested positive for the measles, and tests…
New Allegations Renew Old Questions About Saudi Arabia And 9/11
For years, some current and former American officials have been urging President Barack Obama to release secret files they say document links between the government of Saudi Arabia and the…
Iraq Officials: Suicide Bomb in Baghdad Kills 13, Wounds 30
BAGHD — Iraqi police officials say a suicide bombing in eastern Baghdad has killed at least 13 people and wounded 30. – The capital has witnessed sporadic bombings but has…
Mexico: State Officials Find 60 Bodies Inside an Abandoned Crematorium
The bodies of 60 men, women and children have been found piled in an abandoned crematorium in Acapulco, the authorities in Guerrero State said Friday, but they appeared to have…
More Popular Than Expected, New York’s ID Program Has Officials Scrambling
First there were long lines and waits that lasted hours, followed by website glitches, protracted hold times on telephone information lines and extreme difficulty in arranging timely appointments. The introduction…