AUGUST 18, 2018
New citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center in September 2017. - Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS/File
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — Working a Saturday shift in the stuffy Immigration and Naturalization Services office in downtown Los Angeles in the 1970s, Carl Shusterman came across a rap sheet.
A man recently sworn in as a United States...
AUGUST 18, 2018
Kofi Annan | Photo Credit: AFP
Kofi Annan, a soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana, who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world’s conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles that left indelible stains on his record as a peacekeeper, died on Saturday. He was 80.
His...
AUGUST 17, 2018
PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter finishes his Saturday night dinner, salmon and broccoli casserole on a paper plate, flashes his famous toothy grin and calls playfully to his wife of 72 years, Rosalynn: “C’mon, kid.”
She laughs and takes his hand, and they walk carefully through a neighbor’s kitchen filled with 1976 campaign buttons, photos of world leaders...
AUGUST 17, 2018In this April 19, 2017 file photo, Aretha Franklin performs at the world premiere of ‘Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives’ at Radio City Music Hall, during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, in New York. | Photo Credit: AP
Aretha Franklin, the preacher's daughter whose powerful voice made her the long-reigning ‘Queen of Soul’ with...
AUGUST 17, 2018
In this photo released by the National Assembly, the leader of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf party Imran Khan greets speaker Asad Qaiser in Islamabad. | Photo Credit: AP
The victorious Imran Khan will take oath as Prime Minister on Saturday.
Pakistani lawmakers on Friday elected former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country’s next prime minister, in...
AUGUST 17, 2018
Trump is considering revoking the security clearances of 9 other US intelligence veterans — some of whom are his most vocal critics
A dozen former senior intelligence officials are denouncing President Donald Trump's decision to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance as "ill-considered" and "unprecedented."
"We all agree that the president's action regarding John Brennan and the...
AUGUST 16, 2018
Islamabad: Micro-blogging platform Twitter has been asked by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to comply with its requests to block objectionable content or face a shutdown in the country, the media reported on Thursday.
According to a report in Dawn online, Twitter is in danger of being banned in Pakistan because of the government's inability to...
AUGUST 16, 2018
Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
New Delhi: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, three-time Prime Minister of India and one of the country's most respected politicians, has died. The announcement was made by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMS, where the 93-year-old was being treated by a team of doctors for nine weeks.
Mr. Vajpayee, the BJP's...
AUGUST 16, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with state leaders about prison reform, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
President Donald Trump drew a connection in a new interview between his decision to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan's security clearance with his involvement in the investigation into Russian election...
AUGUST 15, 2018
NGT, NGT chairperson, National Green Tribunal, mail complaints to NGT, India news, Indian Express news
Since before Justice Goel took over as NGT chairperson in July, the four regional benches — Pune, Bhopal, Chennai and Kolkata – were lying closed.
Soon people in remote parts of India will be able to send an email to the National...
