President Donald Trump attempted to make a surprise visit to the Demilitarized Zone Tuesday — the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea — but was forced to turn back due to bad weather. Thick gray fog blanketing Seoul hampered the president’s flight on Marine One, which officials said […]
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Massachusetts towns reeling after 3 students killed in crash
Two Massachusetts towns are reeling, and schools will have grief counselors on hand, one day after three students were killed when their car went off the road, hit a tree and rolled over. The two girls and one boy killed in Tuesday’s crash were students at Quaboag Regional Middle High […]
Trump warns Kim ‘regime in grave danger … we will not be intimidated’
Invoking an alliance with South Korea “forged in the crucible of war,” President Donald Trump warned the nuclear-armed North Korean regime “not to underestimate us” and called on all nations to “deny it any form of support, supply, or acceptance.” “I hope I speak not only for our countries, but […]
‘Insane’ that civilians can buy semiautomatic assault rifles: Top Pentagon nominee
A Trump administration nominee for a top Pentagon job told Congress on Tuesday that it’s “insane” civilians can buy semiautomatic assault rifles — like the type used in Sunday’s deadly church shooting in Texas. “I’d also like to — and I may get in trouble with other members of the […]
Some companies still paying Puerto Rico employees despite closed stores
Some companies with locations in Puerto Rico, where hurricanes have caused unprecedented death and destruction and power is not yet restored in many areas, have continued paying their employees despite store closures. TJX, the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Home Goods, and Marshalls, has continued to pay employees based in […]
LGBT, minority candidates see historic wins but long-term impact on diversity unclear
As Democrats nabbed two major gubernatorial races, Election Day Tuesday was also a historic night for a number of minority and LGBT candidates. Former journalist Danica Roem became the nation’s first openly transgender woman elected to a state legislature. Roem unseated Virginia delegate Robert Marshall, who described himself as “chief […]
Ex-anchor whose girlfriend died in live TV shooting elected
A former Virginia news anchor whose journalist girlfriend was fatally shot during a live broadcast in 2015 has defeated a Republican incumbent for a seat in the House of Delegates. Chris Hurst beat Joseph Yost Tuesday in a high-profile race for the Blacksburg-area seat Tuesday. Hurst was living with fellow […]
State Department senior ranks being depleted at ‘dizzying speed’
The U.S.’s ranks of diplomats are losing key leaders at a “dizzying speed” as the State Department struggles to recruit new talent amid a hiring freeze and sinking morale in the Trump administration, according to a new letter from a top ambassador. Sixty percent of the agency’s career ambassadors, the […]
The Note: Blue wave sweeps over New Jersey and Virginia, but watch for the undertow
The TAKE with Rick Klein Democrats can breathe again. But taking a breath is a questionable proposition in the Trump era. It’s hard to overstate what Tuesday’s sweeping victories mean for Democratic enthusiasm and excitement. The party that needed a win got a bunch of them with a night that […]
Kremlin quiet as Russia marks Revolution’s 100-year anniversary
Russia’s Communists, dwindling in numbers and sidelined by the authorities, on Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the uprising led by Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik party in 1917, that led to the creation of the Soviet Union and commenced the spread of Communism around the world. […]