The West Virginia Library Commission and the West Virginia Center for the Book has announced the One Book One West Virginia selection for 2018-19. Each year, one book written by an Appalachian author is selected for this prestigious honor, and this year’s honoree is “Water Street” by Crystal […]
Indian tribes that operate casinos paid nearly $27 million to Arizona during the first three months of the state budget year. The revenue announced by the state Gaming Department Friday for the quarter ending Sept. 30 is up 2 percent from the same quarter a year ago. It’s […]
China and India are closely watching the constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka, which has been a battleground in their struggle for geopolitical supremacy in South Asia. Chinese and Indian diplomats have been careful not to overtly take sides in the political turmoil, which has seen President Maithripala Sirisena […]
President Xi Jinping promised Monday to open China wider to imports as he opened a high-profile trade fair meant to rebrand the country as a global customer. But he offered no response to U.S. and European complaints about technology policy and curbs on foreign business. The China International […]
The day of reckoning for American politics has nearly arrived. Voters on Tuesday will decide the $5 billion debate between President Donald Trump’s take-no-prisoner politics and the Democratic Party’s super-charged campaign to end the GOP’s monopoly in Washington and statehouses across the nation. There are indications that an oft-discussed “blue […]
Egypt said Sunday it had killed 19 militants in retaliation for an attack on Coptic Christians two days earlier. The Interior Ministry said Egypt’s security forces tracked the suspects in Friday’s attack to a hideout in the desert of the Minya Province and returned fire from the militant […]
The driver of a tower-crane truck lost control and crashed into a long line of vehicles in China on Saturday, killing 15 people. A total of 31 vehicles were involved in the pileup near the Lanzhou South Toll Station on the Lanzhou-Haikou Expressway and 41 people were injured, […]
Angelina Jolie called for protection for Yemeni refugees and international efforts to bring an end to the long-running conflict in Yemen during her visit to Seoul as a special envoy for the U.N. Refugee Agency. “As an international community, we have been shamefully slow to act to end the […]
Demonstrators gathered Sunday outside the former U.S. diplomatic mission, marking the 1979 takeover of the diplomatic complex known as the “den of spies” in the nation. Nov. 4 is also known as Student Day and the National Day of the Fight against Global Arrogance. Rallies also took place […]
Billionaire Warren Buffett‘s conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway bought back $928 million of its stock as its third-quarter earnings jumped from $4.1 billion to $18.54 billion in one year, the company announced Saturday. In addition, the company’s operating profit increased to $6.88 billion from $3.44 billion in the third quarter, […]
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