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…
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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…
Jake Tapper talks to Pentagon’s Rear Adm. John Kirby about how the U.S. plans to help Nigeria rescue kidnapped girls.
An urgent international effort to help Nigeria find more than 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist militants is focused on providing intelligence as experts try to locate the hostages. Amid global outrage over the kidnapping, the United States, France and…
The United States is setting up joint intelligence team at our embassy in Nigeria in a stepped up effort to find 300 girls who went missing from a school.
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…
US President Barack Obama described the kidnapping of more than 220 schoolgirls by Islamists in Nigeria as “heartbreaking” and “outrageous” as Washington deployed military experts in the hunt for the children. Obama urged global action against Boko…
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…
Calls for the United States to help find and free hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria are mounting after Boko Haram claimed the abduction and threatened to sell the girls as “slaves”. “I abducted your girls,” the Islamist group’s leader Abubakar…