FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Donald Trump Jr. addresses the audience at the campaign rally for Ron DeSantis for governor at B.B. King's Blues Club in Orlando, Fla., on July 18, 2018. (Willie J. Allen Jr./For The Washington Post)
It’s not common for President Trump to embrace reporting from CNN, but he did so with alacrity on Thursday when the network reported...
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Interim finance minister Piyush Goyal
NEW DELHI - The ruling Narendra Modi government has milked its last chance to woo voters.
After losing key state elections, it was expected to introduce several populist measures in its annual budget today (Feb. 01). And that’s just what it did. With only a few months to go for India’s general...
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Did humans have prehistoric ancestors we didn't know about yet? AI seems to suggest so.
An artificial intelligence system has identified a previously unknown human ancestor that roamed the planet tens of thousands of years ago and left a genomic footprint in Asian individuals, scientists say.
By combining deep learning algorithms and statistical methods, researchers from the University of...
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump are shown at the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. - Joe Raedle/Getty Images
NEW YORK - Donald Trump’s three eldest children were deeply involved in their father’s alleged scheme to rip off tens of thousands of Americans with bogus marketing opportunities in the years...
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
An illegal immigrant in the United States illegally is checked before boarding a deportation flight by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE authorities have arrested 130 people, 129 of them Indian, enrolled as students in a fake university in Detroit as an immigration fraud and will deport them (Representative Photo)(AP)
The arrested Indians have been placed in “removal...
JANUARY 31, 2019
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 7: Members of Afghanistan's Crisis Response Unit 222, an Afghan Special Police Unit, participate in a training slowed down for the media on September 7, 2017 at Camp Lion in Kabul, Afghanistan. Currently the United States has about 11,000 troops in the deployed in Afghanistan, with a reported 4,000 more expected to arrive...
JANUARY 31, 2019
A new study suggests Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took a different route on the day it disappeared and crashed north-east of Madagascar, not south-west of Western Australia.
Scientists at Cardiff University have been studying underwater sound waves recorded on the day the flight disappeared.
If the data is from the missing aircraft, it would indicate it crashed much further...
JANUARY 31, 2019
Brief Scorecard: New Zealand 93 for 2 (Taylor 37*) beat India 92 (Chahal 18*, Boult 5-21, de Grandhomme 3-26) by eight wickets
Swing. The ghost that is rarely seen in current ODI cricket. When it was seen in Hamilton, it left India pale as it did them in Dharamsala in December 2017. Just like that game, India didn't...
JANUARY 31, 2019
In this 2017 photo, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, center, accompanied by Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, second from right, learns about capabilities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Plutonium Facility from Jeff Yarbrough, right. (Photo: AP photo)
Gov. Brian Sandoval said he will use every resource to ensure high level nuclear waste does not come to the Silver...
JANUARY 30, 2019
Our long regional nightmare may finally be coming to an end.
Virginia announced Tuesday it's building almost three more miles of new High-occupancy Toll lanes on the Beltway up to the American Legion Bridge.
On Wednesday, Maryland's highway administrator confirmed that replacing the bridge itself -- the region's worst bottleneck -- is at the top of his list. Greg...
