JANUARY 1, 2018
Lawmakers will return to Washington this week. - J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. — America will get its first taste of divided government under President Trump this week when a Democratic House tries to wrest control of the political agenda from Mr. Trump, who appears determined to keep the focus on border security, immigration and his “big,...
JANUARY 1, 2018
In this Jan. 1, 2018, file photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers his New Year's speech at an undisclosed place in North Korea. | Photo Credit: AP
Kim’s speech was closely watched as North Korean leaders traditionally use New Year’s statements to reflect on the past year and issue...
JANUARY 1, 2018
Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal. Photo: Twitter/@DrMFaisal
Exchange lists of convicts who have completed terms
In a peace overture, India has asked Islamabad to take back dozens of Pakistani nationals who have completed jail terms here. The Indian request came in the context of the exchange of the lists of prisoners in both countries that took place on...
JANUARY 1, 2018
ICC women's teams of 2018
ODI team of the year: Smriti Mandhana (India), Tammy Beaumont (England), Suzie Bates (New Zealand, capt), Dane van Niekerk (South Africa), Sophie Devine (New Zealand), Alyssa Healy (Australia, wk), Marizanne Kapp (South Africa), Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Sana Mir (Pakistan), Sophie Ecclestone (England), Poonam Yadav (India)
T20I team of the year: Smriti Mandhana (India),...
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Wall Street concluded a tumultuous 2018 on Monday as the major stock indexes posted their worst yearly performances since the financial crisis.
After solid gains on Monday, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 6.2 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively, for 2018. Both indexes logged in their biggest annual losses since 2008, when they plunged...
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Stanley McChrystal speaks during the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 2, 2016. - Patrick T. Fallon
Retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal did not mince words about President Donald Trump in a wide-ranging interview with ABC's "This Week," saying the president is dishonest and immoral and adding that he could not work...
DECEMBER 30, 2018
President Donald Trump
Less than a month after declaring his long-shot candidacy for president in 2015, Donald Trump told a Las Vegas gathering he would get along “very nicely” with Russian President Vladimir Putin and there was no need to continue U.S. sanctions against Russia.
“I know Putin,” Trump said at the FreedomFest libertarian conference. “I’ll tell you what: We...
DECEMBER 30, 2018
Brief Scorecard: India 7 for 443 dec (Pujara 106, Kohli 82, Agarwal 76, Rohit 63*) and 8 for 106 dec (Cummins 6-27) beat Australia 151 (Bumrah 6-33) and 261 (Cummins 63) by 137 runs
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - The first session was washed out, Google Trends for 'Melbourne weather' from India went through the roof but in the end,...
DECEMBER 29, 2018
The 2018 casualty list in markets is long. Hedge funds, Apple and Amazon’s trillion-dollar price tags, trading results everywhere. Not even Christmas was spared the wrath of cascading stocks. It has felt unprecedented, like Armageddon, or maybe even the robot apocalypse. It wasn’t.
While any 20 percent sell-off hurts, the one happening now is far from unheard of...
DECEMBER 29, 2018
WASHINGTON D.C. - When the government shutdown began a week ago, many federal workers were more irked than anxious.
They’re really anxious now. What at first seemed like ho-hum political brinkmanship is looking more like a prolonged, punishing shutdown, more akin to the 27-day funding lapse in 1995 and 1996 than the blink-and-miss-it shutdowns earlier this year.
“This one...
