Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington state to begin first official US visit
EVERETT, Washington (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington state to begin first official US visit.
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Rajapaksa criticizes U.N. findings on Sri Lanka war crimes
By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa criticized on Tuesday the findings of a UN probe into war crimes and called on the government to reject the report, which called for suspects to be prosecuted by a hybrid court with international judges. Rajapaksa won the 26-year war against Tamil Tiger separatists in 2009, but his military was accused of killing thousands of
Pope leaves for the US after visit to Cuba
SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — Pope Francis left Cuba on Tuesday for his first trip to the U.S., wrapping up a four-day visit to the communist island with an appeal to the people to rediscover their Catholic heritage and live a “revolution of tenderness.”
The man Pope Francis should meet in Washington
John Wojnowski has protested outside the Vatican Embassy in Washington for 17 years.
VW CEO says he's 'endlessly sorry' for tarnishing brand
BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen AG’s emissions scandal crisis escalated Tuesday as the company issued a profit warning, set aside billions to cover the fallout and saw its shares take another battering. The CEO of the world’s top-selling carmaker declared he was “endlessly sorry” that the company had squandered worldwide trust in its brand.
Petraeus apologizes for giving classified info to mistress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus apologized to Congress on Tuesday for sharing classified information with his biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell. It was his first public testimony before lawmakers since resigning as CIA director.
Obama, in prison documentary: U.S. legal system has been 'unjust'
The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an unprecedented presidential visit to a prison. “They then get involved in the criminal justice system, and it just churns, and everybody thinks that’s normal,” the president told the nonviolent drug offenders at the medium-security El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma. Obama
Senate to sidestep abortion fight in funding bill
Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate, hoping to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown when federal funding runs out at the end of the current fiscal year, are likely to advance a stop-gap spending bill that abandons attempts to halt funding for Planned Parenthood, Senator John Cornyn said on Tuesday. “Given the president’s opposition and Democrats’ opposition, at some point I anticipate there will be a clean CR,” Cornyn, the
Bankrupt Patriot Coal seeks end to retiree healthcare plans
Patriot has not said if the private auction had concluded. “No purchaser of the debtors’ assets is willing to assume these obligations,” the company said in a filing late Monday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia. Patriot has 969 non-union retirees who would be affected by the request.
GE names brand executive Boff as chief marketing officer
(Reuters) – General Electric Co on Tuesday named top brand executive Linda Boff as its chief marketing officer, as the U.S. conglomerate tries to position itself as a digital industrial company.