The path to power in the House runs through a few dozen districts in Tuesday’s election , with Republicans defending their majority and Democrats looking to gain 23 seats they would need to win control. After the first polls close in the Eastern United States, the tallies will start revealing […]
An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked a checkpoint in eastern Ghazni province, killing at least 13 soldiers and policemen. Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor, says seven soldiers and six policemen were killed. Four soldiers were also wounded in the early Monday attack at the […]
Lawyers for two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar have appealed the verdict that sent them to prison for seven years for illegal possession of official documents. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had been reporting on the brutal crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority when they were arrested […]
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, […]
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