NOVEMBER 17, 2018
NEW DELHI - A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi challenged the Congress to appoint a non-Gandhi as party president for five years, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday listed out the names of Congress presidents from outside the Gandhi family.
Chidambaram, in a series of tweets, also said that he was "grateful" that the Prime Minister...
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
PARADISE, CALIFORNIA - Forensic recovery teams searched for more victims in the charred wreckage of the northern California town of Paradise on Saturday as the number of people listed as missing in the state's deadliest wildfire topped 1,000.
Remains of at least 71 people have been recovered in and around the small Sierra foothills town 175 miles (280...
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
The Bunker Hill Mine deposited 75 million tons of toxic sludge in Lake Coeur d’Alene, and the lead and zinc are still flowing.
For a century, the mines of the Coeur d’Alene Mountains in North Idaho produced much of the heavy metals that made the U.S. a global superpower. Starting in the 1880s, through the rise of industrialization,...
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
George Conway set up a new legal group for conservative lawyers to speak out against President Trump. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. — George T. Conway III, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, said the Republican Party has become “a personality cult” under President Trump and that he would “move to Australia” rather than vote...
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the United Nations in New York on March 27, 2018. - Amir Levy/Reuters
The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the...
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
President Donald Trump talks to reporters at a signing ceremony for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act in the Oval Office on November 16, 2018. - Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Donald Trump on Friday said he had "very easily" completed his written answers for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016...
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 145 for 6 (Mithali 51, Mandhana 33, Garth 2-22) beat Ireland 93 for 8 (Joyce 33, Shillington 23, Radha 3-25) by 52 runs
PROVIDENCE, GUYANA - NOVEMBER 15: Mithali Raj of India bats with Mary Waldron wicket keeper of Ireland looking on during the ICC Women's World T20 2018 match between India and Ireland at...
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
Illustration by ESO - M. Kornmesser A dim red star rises over the landscape in this illustration of the newfound planet.
Just six light-years away, a frozen world seems to be orbiting a small, dim red star. If it’s truly there, the alien planet would at least partly fulfill a fantasy decades in the making, and it...
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
President Donald Trump welcomes Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 20, 2018.
Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia pulled off a challenging U-turn in global oil market policy, convincing a fractious group of two dozen nations to hike output and undercut the oil market rally...
NOVEMBER 15, 2018
India offered to import more oil and gas from the US and highlighted the potential for American defence firms to set up shop in India during a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US vice president Mike Pence in Singapore on Wednesday.
The two leaders also discussed counter-terror cooperation, with Modi saying the mainstreaming of people involved...
