SEOUL  – North and South Korea began dismantling loudspeakers that blared propaganda across their heavily fortified border on Tuesday, South Korea’s defense ministry said, fulfilling a promise made at last week’s historic summit. The moves are the first practical, if small, steps toward reconciliation after Friday’s meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the […]

NEW YORK  – Oil prices slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar remained near a four-month high, but worries that U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market. The U.S. dollar .DXY surged into positive territory for 2018 and broke past key levels against several […]

Fed-up women working at Nike wanted to make change at their company—and after they banded together, they did just that. According to an investigation from the New York Times, a group of women employees secretly sent out questionnaires to other women working at the sportswear company, asking them about sexual harassment and discrimination. They dropped the results […]

AMMAN, Jordan — Mike Pompeo has swapped the no-profile, cloak-and-dagger world of covert espionage for the life of a buttoned-down diplomat, representing the public face of the Trump administration’s foreign policy. Making his first overseas trip as secretary of state, the ex-CIA chief traded in a small, unmarked government jet, secret overseas voyages and hush-hush […]

Aries Daily Horoscope for Today 30 April 2018: Aries on April 30, 2018 will have to go back to the distant past. In the evening you will go on a small trip, and on the way you will meet someone you once passionately loved. You will find an opportunity to chat for a couple of minutes, […]

Following one of America’s “scenic byways” offers boundless flexibility for choosing one’s getaway plan.They’re the miniature versions, if you will, of the ambitious nationwide “auto tour routes” like those that follow the Oregon Trail or Route 66. Every one of the 50 states has designated scenic byways within its borders, offering trip lengths, themes and […]

Jim Starlin’s comic book creation has long been worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy, but Josh Brolin has taken him to new heights. It was a grin that changed the scope of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a pleased acceptance at the declaration, “to challenge them would be to court death,” that invited fans both new and old […]

Terrorist group ISIS raised billions of pounds from oil sales, taxing millions of residents and trading in products such as sulphur and cement. The story of how the so-called Islamic state became one of the richest terror groups in the world – possibly the wealthiest ever seen – has been revealed by Sedgefield MP Phil Wilson. Drawing […]

SYDNEY  – Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Saturday the country will send a military patrol aircraft to monitor North Korean vessels suspected of transferring prohibited goods in defiance of United Nations sanctions. Canada also plans to deploy patrol aircraft for such activities, and surveillance planes from both countries will be based in the […]

In 2013, when a forum member made a typo in a post to announce – in all caps – that he was “hodling,” he had no idea that the term would go viral. And so, ‘hodl’ was born (meaning to hold on to rather than sell), along with many other phrases and urban slang that […]