Bike Hunterdon, an initiative of the nonprofit transportation organization, HART Commuter Information Services, and the Western Jersey Wheelmen bicycle club have partnered to commemorate the 300th Anniversary of Hunterdon County by leading a series…
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The New York Times on Wednesday replaced its first female executive editor, Jill Abramson, with its managing editor Dean Baquet, who becomes the first African American to hold the post. Abramson’s departure was announced by the US daily’s publisher…
Former president Bill Clinton swatted down Republican suggestions that wife Hillary’s health could hamper her potential White House run, insisting Wednesday she is in “better shape” than him. “She works out every week, she is strong, she’s doing great…
More than one-in-four adults harbor anti-Semitic attitudes and barely half worldwide have heard of the Holocaust, according to a global study released Tuesday by a major Jewish rights group. The US-based Anti-Defamation League, in a survey of 53,100…
British hate preacher Abu Hamza clashed angrily with a US prosecutor at his New York terror trial on Tuesday, denying claims that bomb-making plans had once been found in his prison cell. Taking to the witness stand for a fourth day, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa…
Global wine consumption fell marginally in 2013 and the United States outstripped France as the top consumer, the International Organisation of Wine and Vine (OIV) said Tuesday. Consumption dipped 1 percent last year to 238.7 hectolitres of wine in…
President Barack Obama has been briefed by his top advisors after a second case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was discovered on US soil, the White House said Tuesday. “The president has been briefed on this development … Our team…
9 May 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today voiced concern at renewed violence in Venezuela, and at…
The Washington Monument, one of the US capital’s most recognizable landmarks, reopened Monday under dazzling blue skies, three years after sustaining damage from a rare earthquake. The popular tourist attraction is the US capital city’s tallest building…
The United States has no plans to send troops to Nigeria to help recover hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. “There’s no intention, at this point, to (put) American…
The Daily Banter follows the Wall Street Journal in reporting the Recorded Future’s revelations Al Qaeda operatives switched communications encryption within months of Snowden’s INTEL “dump” to the world. For all who were deeply…
U.S. advisers arrives in Nigeria to aid in search for the kidnapped schoolgirls. CNN’s Barbara Starr reports.
First Lady Michelle Obama is to speak out against the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic militants when she gives the weekly presidential address instead of her husband, the White House said Friday. White House deputy spokesman…
The owner of a Miami restaurant chain has paid nearly $10 million for a luxurious beach-front home in the US city once owned by famous Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar. Christian Berdouare, owner of the Chicken Kitchen restaurants and one of…
The Dow closed at a fresh record high as US stocks rallied Friday, with investors shrugging off mixed earnings reports and uncertainty over the Russia-Ukraine crisis. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 32.37 points (0.20 percent) to 16,583.34…
One of Japan’s most popular cartoon creations, Doraemon, a robot cat from the future with a magic pocket and a portal to anywhere, is to make his debut on US TV this year, officials said Friday. TV Asahi, which partially owns the rights to the character…
Sitting in a Mexican bar in the US capital, Maria complains that “using lemon instead of lime in a margarita is like using onions instead of garlic.” But lemon margaritas just might be coming to a cantina near you, thanks to the skyrocketing price of…
Los Angeles Clippers President Andy Roeser, who has been with the NBA club since 1984, will take an indefinite leave of absence starting immediately, the league announced. The news came three days after the NBA announced that it would appoint a new…
Alibaba — often described as a Chinese version of Amazon or eBay — filed documents Tuesday for its US stock listing, widely expected to be one of the largest offerings in history. The initial filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicates…
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky broke her silence Tuesday about her illicit 1990s affair with president Bill Clinton, saying she wants to reclaim the narrative of events that brought her global humiliation. Lewinsky, now 40, was in her early…