An aide to South Korean president Moon Jae-in suggested Tuesday (Nov. 27) that Kim Jong Un may not be visiting Seoul this year, as the North Korean leader was reportedly planning to do.
The central US Border Patrol detainee-processing facility in McAllen, Texas has added extra porta-potties and sinks to handle what it describes as an “increase in detainees,” government purchasing data show.
Two years after the 2016 US presidential election, and two years before the next one, “Make America Great Again” merchandise remains a big business.
The Secret Service needs to rent as many as 84 golf carts for US president Donald Trump’s upcoming stays at four of his Florida properties, according to federal acquisitions data.
An IRS program using private debt collectors to handle delinquent tax bills is improperly demanding payment from hurricane victims and squeezing some of the poorest Americans—all the while turning a profit far below industry standards.
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) station in Laredo, Texas, has an “urgent” need for riot gear, according to federal contracting documents.
Utah’s Orrin Hatch, 84, will be the US’s longest-serving Republican senator in history when he steps down at the end of this year. Hatch started his career in the Senate in 1976, when Gerald Ford was president.
US first lady Melania Trump ran up a six-figure hotel bill for a one-day trip to Toronto last year, according to federal spending records.
Marijuana is now legal, in one form or another, in 33 US states and the District of Columbia. To the federal government, pot is still a drug classified no differently than heroin or cocaine. Yet cannabis businesses are still required to pay federal taxes. (More taxes than most, as Quartz’s Ephrat Livni pointed out last year.)
After a body camera worn by a New York Police Department officer burst into flames, the NYPD immediately pulled almost 3,000 of its Vievu model LE5 units out of service. Some experts say battery fires, while potentially dangerous, are relatively rare and might be among the industry’s lesser worries.
After a contentious interaction between CNN’s Jim Acosta and president Donald Trump at a press conference November 7, the administration revoked the veteran newsman’s “hard pass,” a credential that allows journalists regular (and unescorted) access to the White House and White House briefings.
Russia’s foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU, hasn’t exactly seemed to be at the top of its game as of late. After the botched poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, England last March, Russian defense officials called GRU supervisors “morons,” according to investigative journalist Sergei Kanev. The Financial Times referred to the GRU operatives behind a thwarted hacking attempt in the Netherlands last month as “Keystone Kops.”
Toward the end of September, Ramon Antonio Monreal Rodriguez obtained $650,000 worth of cocaine from smugglers along the Arizona border. The 32-year-old Tucsonian made two exchanges of drugs and money over the course of two nights, and ensured 41 kilos of coke got into the US from Mexico without any problems.
An electric wheelchair owned by the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking sold at auction by Christie’s on Thursday (Nov. 8) for £296,750 ($393,000). Hawking used the wheelchair between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. The identity of the winning bidder has not yet been publicly revealed.
On October 29, 2018, a gunman opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue, leaving 11 people dead and six others wounded.
US voters set new records for getting their ballots in early ahead of the midterm elections, and the president was among them.
In 2015, there were 767,622 animals used for medical experiments in the US, the lowest level since the United States Department of Agriculture began keeping records in the early 1970s. That included roughly 138,000 rabbits, 98,000 hamsters, 11,000 sheep, 46,000 pigs; 20,000 cats, 61,000 dogs, 173,000 guinea pigs, 28,000 “other farm animals,” and nearly 62,000 “nonhuman primates.”
Two parliamentarians from the Russian State Duma are in the United States as part of an international delegation to monitor the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 6, according to Russian news agency TASS.
Of the world’s 195 countries, 72 have official space agencies, including Nigeria, Bangladesh, Peru, and Bolivia. Kyrgyzstan does not. So a group of young women decided to start their own.
Melania Trump’s stay in Cairo during her October trip to Africa cost taxpayers $95,050, according to federal spending records.
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je’s first music video, “Do Things Right,” has finally dropped and the message is as earnest as the title implies. Wearing white shirtsleeves with a pen clipped into the chest pocket, he strides in slow motion alongside Taiwanese rapper Chunyan. “Don’t steal chickens or the pet dog,” Chunyan raps, using slang for laziness and petty theft, as Ko’s hypnotic chant of “Do things right” loops in the background.
There are more than 30,000 North Korean defectors presently living in South Korea. None of them has any real way to speak to the loved ones they left behind.
During a segment on yesterday’s episode of Outnumbered, the Fox News daytime talk show, the hosts and guests joked and smiled and teased one another about things like running for political office. Meanwhile, the chyron along the lower third of the screen at the time read: “Questions on how mail-bomb scare, synagogue attack could impact midterm voters eight days from now.”
James “Whitey” Bulger was reportedly killed in a West Virginia prison, according to multiple reports citing unnamed officials. Bulger, a notorious former Boston organized crime boss, was serving two life sentences for 11 murders. He was 89 years old.
