Washington, after 200 years, may get vote in Congress
It has taken a little over 200 years, but Washingtonians finally sense that their quirky status as citizens without voting representation in the U.S. Congress might just be coming to an end.
It has taken a little over 200 years, but Washingtonians finally sense that their quirky status as citizens without voting representation in the U.S. Congress might just be coming to an end.
The Thai prime minister fired his agriculture and defense ministers on Oct. 5 following their failures to beat the countrys bird flu crisis and settle the political unrest in the Muslim-dominated south.
A business jet piloted by two US citizens may have been at the wrong altitude when it crossed paths with a commercial airliner that crashed last week in the Amazon, killing all 155 people on board, officials have said.
Six of the world’s biggest polluters, led by the United States, will create a multi-million dollar fund to encourage mining and power industries to develop and use cleaner energy technologies to combat climate change.
Russian scientists suspended a mission to explore the world’s biggest lake on Wednesday after one of their submarines collided with a floating platform, media reported.
Russian scientists suspended a mission to explore the world’s biggest lake on Wednesday after one of their submarines collided with a floating platform, media reported.
Vietnam war intelligence that played a critical role in expanding the conflict was “deliberately skewed,” a secret study says.
Al Qaeda could be planning an attack on Asian-Pacific financial centers to try to undermine investor confidence in the region, a senior French anti-terrorism judge said in an interview on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to the lethal three-drug cocktail used in most U.S. executions, clearing the way for a resumption of capital punishment halted since last September.
South Korea’s aviation authority ordered South Korean airliners Friday to avoid a flight route through an area where North Korea tested missiles two days ago, officials said.