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...
JANUARY 30, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC—While DC isn't experiencing temperatures and wind chills well below zero like many regions impacted by the polar vortex, dangerous cold is moving in nevertheless. The region is under a wind advisory Wednesday and wind chill advisory from the evening into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
Forecasters warn of strong 25 to 35 mph winds...
JANUARY 30, 2019
Apple has signaled that it could lower iPhone prices in an attempt to boost falling sales.
The firm reported a decline in both revenue and profits in its latest quarterly financial results on Tuesday night.
In the three months ending in December, it reported a 15 per cent fall in sales of the iPhone.
This reflected a dive from £46.8...
JANUARY 30, 2019
A House panel is planning to hold a hearing next week on the portion of House Democrats' good-government bill that would require presidents to release their tax returns, according to a House Democratic aide.
The hearing is expected to be held Feb. 7 by the House Ways and Means Committee's oversight subcommittee. It is part of a series...
JANUARY 30, 2019
NEW DELHI, INDIA - ICICI Bank Wednesday said an independent enquiry found former CEO Chanda Kochhar had violated the bank’s Code of Conduct in the Videocon fraud case. The enquiry report submitted by Justice (Retd) B N Srikrishna Wednesday concluded that there was lack of diligence with respect to annual disclosures and violation of code of conduct,...
JANUARY 29, 2019
President Trump speaks about tariffs at the White House last week. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - It has not been a good couple of weeks for President Trump’s poll numbers. While they’ve been relatively steady throughout his two years in the White House, the government shutdown has pushed his approval rating as low as it’s been...
