Parents In Nigeria Asking How Boko Haram Succeeded Again In Kidnapping Schoolgirls
In Nigeria, distraught families want to talk to the nation’s president to press him to help find the 110 girls abducted from their school in the northeast three weeks ago. Many are asking how suspected Boko Haram gunmen have again succeeded in kidnappi…
Myanmar Rejects Reports That It Committed Extreme Human Rights Violations
A government spokesman said the claims are unsupported. The reports’ authors also said that Facebook had played a role in inflaming violence and hatred against the Rohingya.
Tillerson fired: Why top diplomat was never a good fit with disruptor-in-chief
In the end, Rex Tillerson was simply not enough of a disruptor to last as President Trump’s secretary of State. Time and again over the course of Mr. Trump’s first year in office, his chief diplomat sounded a cautious and conventional note on foreign …
Nikolai Glushkov, Russian Exile Linked To A Putin Critic, Dies In London
The Metropolitan Police says that its counter-terrorism unit is handling the case “because of associations that the man is believed to have had.”
‘Russian Roulette’ Authors Seek To Connect The Dots Between Trump And Putin
Journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn have been at the forefront of the investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. Their new book attempts to put all the pieces of the story together.
For suburban GOP lawmakers, new pressure on guns
Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman (R) is used to tough campaigns. Mrs. Clinton, in fact, beat President Trump in the district by 9 points – almost the same margin by which Representative Coffman beat his last Democratic challenger. Emotional participants co…
Take the taint out of March Madness
For some time the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been looking into illegal payments made to college basketball players and their families. By one estimate at least 50 college basketball programs eventually may be found to be compromised. To play…
Serving time with Mom in prison: cruel sentence, or a child’s right?
From the pint-sized toilets to the colorful bedrooms and backyard filled with overturned tricycles, there’s no question children live here. What’s less obvious is that the 38 babies and toddlers bunking with their mothers at the Vilma Curling Rivera I…
After centuries of cultural theft, why more nations are returning looted artifacts
In June 2013, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York returned to Cambodia two 10th-century sandstone statues, originally looted in the 1970s by the Khmer Rouge. In July 2017, craft company Hobby Lobby returned to Iraq 5,500 artifacts, including an…
Mike Pompeo: A Soldier, Spy Chief And Tea Party Republican Becomes A Diplomat
He’s been a tank commander, a successful businessman, a congressman and head of the CIA. He’s cultivated a tough-guy persona with hawkish views on foreign policy. Now he’s the country’s top diplomat.
What Tillerson’s firing means: Three questions
President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and will nominate current CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Mr. Tillerson’s replacement, was far from unexpected. In some ways, the relationship between Mr. Trump and…
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