BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore could wrap up 2019 with its highest per-capita homicide rate on record as killings of adults and minors alike for drugs, retribution, money or no clear reason continue to add up and city officials appear unable to stop the violence. Police recorded 338 homicides as of Tuesday, following a week of […]
Sambo Dasuki (R) is accused of siphoning money earmarked for the fight against Islamic militant group Boko Haram and allegedly using it to help bankroll former president Goodluck Jonathan’s failed re-election campaign in 2015 (AFP Photo/STRINGER) Abuja (AFP) – Nigeria’s former national defence advisor, who was arrested in 2015 for allegedly stealing $2 billion, has […]
It is not exactly breaking news that Tulsi Gabbard will not win the Democratic presidential nomination. Since announcing her candidacy in January, the U.S. House member from Hawaii has never polled higher than 2 percent in the RealClearPolitics polling average. That may not stop Gabbard from mounting a third-party White House bid and having a […]
The news that Uber Inc. co-Founder and former Chief Executive Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board effective Dec. 31 is a positive for the company, freeing its current management to strike their own path forward, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said Tuesday. Kalanick, who was forced out of the ride-sharing company UBER, +1.17% in 2017 […]
European stock markets are looking at the best year in a decade, but investors should not take this as an early sign that the regional economy is back on track, say strategists. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.14%, which includes the U.K., is poised to gain 23% this year, which would be the best return […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he wasn’t worried about a recent threat from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, amid floundering nuclear talks between the U.S. and North Korea. “We’ll find out what the surprise is and we’ll deal with it very successfully,” said Trump, speaking with reporters at his resort at Mar-a-Lago […]
It may all have happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but there’s a secret weapon in every Star Wars film that’s found almost everywhere humans live on Earth. It explains how the scrappy Rebel Alliance were able to defeat the mighty Galactic Empire, with all its high-tech weaponry, vast space […]
Associated Press NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) — Financial markets were cheered recently by the news that the United States and China have reached a “phase one” deal to prevent further escalation of their bilateral trade war. But there is actually very little to cheer about. In exchange for China’s tentative commitment to buy more U.S. […]
1 / 3 There has been international condemnation of a ‘travesty of justice’ that five unnamed aides to the Saudi crown prince were sentenced to death for last year’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, while the plot’s alleged masterminds walked free There has been international condemnation of a ‘travesty of justice’ that five unnamed aides […]
Getty At a press conference in September 2018, Department of Homeland Security agents told reporters they had successfully broken up a transnational ring of illegal massage parlors forcing Asian immigrants into sex slavery. What they didn’t say, however, is that two of their own agents had paid for sex with the alleged victims. As part […]