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– Like a friend who keeps inadvertently blowing up your phone with Facebook invitations to play Candy Jam or Cookie Crush Saga or whatever, we’ve been able to set our clocks to Chevrolet’s slow stream of 2016 Camaro information. Every few days, like a notification from Friend to Unfriend Immediately, Chevy has slipped out some new tidbit or detail about its yet-to-be-revealed sixth-generation pony car. The latest? A look at the car’s
By William Maclean and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) – The Saudi king’s absence from a regional summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama shows how Gulf states, displeased by what they see as U.S. indifference to Iranian meddling in the Arab world, may hesitate to bless any nuclear deal with Tehran. Analysts and diplomats in the Middle East described King Salman’s decision to skip the meeting at Camp David
By Ju-min Park and James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea made a key step in its nuclear weapons program by test-launching a ballistic missile from a submarine, but remains years away from developing a missile system or submarine which could threaten its sworn enemy the United States, experts said. South Korea on Monday called the test “very serious and concerning” and urged Pyongyang to immediately stop developing submarine-launched ballistic
A Moroccan F-16 warplane that is part of the Saudi-led force carrying out air strikes in Yemen has gone missing, Morocco’s military said on Monday, and Iran-allied Houthi rebels and Saudi forces traded heavy fire across the border. The disappearance of the Moroccan jet and the intense artillery and rocket battles could imperil an agreed five-day humanitarian truce in Yemen’s civil war due to begin on Tuesday. Backed by Washington,
In an interview with Yahoo, President Obama defended what would be a historic trade pact with 11 Asian countries against criticism from Senator Warren and other members of his own party, who say the deal could hurt labor and environmental interests.
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case Monday to save him from the death penalty, portraying him as an impressionable teenager from a troubled family who was lured into the deadly plot by his radicalized older brother.
Emergency responders searched through wreckage in parts of Texas and Arkansas early Monday after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others.
With lowered flags and prayers, a southern Mississippi city is mourning two police officers, while the four people arrested after their shooting deaths await an initial court appearance Monday.
Part of a New York nuclear power plant remains offline as cleanup continues of transformer fluid that leaked into the Hudson River. The plant owner says it could be weeks before Indian Point 3 is reopened. …
By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a Roman Catholic nun who is a prominent death penalty opponent that “no one deserves to suffer” as the victims of the deadly 2013 attacks had, the nun testified on Monday. He said no one deserves to suffer like they did,” the nun, Sister Helen Prejean said on Monday.
