The Army Corps' immediate priorities remain assuring emergency electric power supplies to hospitals and other critical resources, and clearing roads to complete a damage assessment of the grid. There were conflicting figures: A day earlier, FEMA said it had distributed 167,000 meals and 539,000 bottles of water. The Department of Homeland Security has sent barges to deliver meals, water and othe... [Full Article...]
Both Long and another administration official, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, renewed criticism Sunday of Cruz, saying she has not cooperated sufficiently with federal officials. FEMA said Sunday it has expanded its delivery of food and water throughout Puerto Rico, though officials stressed that many people still lack the essentials. [Full Article...]
Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong are suspected of smearing Kim Jong Nam's face with banned VX nerve agent on 13 February at an airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur. 2, 2017, in Malaysia's High Court, almost eight months after the brazen airport assassination. North Korea has repeatedly and vehemently denied any involvement in the assassination of Kim. [Full Article...]
The NDP is hoping the charismatic politician will make the party relevant again and can mount a serious challenge to Trudeau and his ruling Liberal Party. "It's unacceptable that our government tells people to just get used to unstable work", said Singh, referring to Finance Minister Bill Morneau's infamous comments about what he considers the realities of the modern economy. [Full Article...]
The comments, made in a series of morning tweets , came a day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Washington has "lines of communication to Pyongyang", even as the two sides trade threats and personal insults. "When the president is talking about North Korea and the leader in North Korea, I think that honestly he's speaking truth to the situation". In August, he said the Uni... [Full Article...]
In an extraordinary tweet that appears to put the President at loggerheads with his Secretary of State over a key USA policy, Mr Trump indicated he had little faith in Rex Tillerson's diplomatic efforts to defuse the North Korea situation. The main aim of the initial contacts was to seek the freedom of several American citizens imprisoned in North Korea, although US officials have told The Associa... [Full Article...]
US President Donald Trump called the efforts of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to negotiate with North Korea a waste of time. US and Chinese delegations, including US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and China's State Councillor Yang Jiechi, meet on Saturday in Beijing. [Full Article...]
The company, which was founded by their father Samuel Newhouse Sr., ran Conde Nasté publications including Vanity Fair , Vogue and The New Yorker . "In a career that spanned more than six decades, he placed the Newhouse family name firmly in the pantheon of American publishing, alongside those of Luce, Sulzberger, Graham, and Hearst, " wrote Carter, who epitomizes the editors tapped by Newhous... [Full Article...]