Month: January 2021

The apparent assassination of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has increased support for critics of the country’s government. Those critics accuse North Korea of being a…

Andrew Puzder has withdrawn as President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary. Just two days earlier, Michael Flynn resigned from his position as national security adviser. Puzder faced united Democratic…

President Donald Trump told voters he would work to make the trade policies in the United States fairer for workers. During his campaign he said the North American Free Trade…

A show in Washington, D.C. suggests that tall buildings of the future can and should be built out of wood. The exhibition is open at the National Building Museum. Wood…

South Korean media say the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been killed in Malaysia. A South Korean government official said that Kim Jong Nam was killed…

Over seven months have passed since Panamanian officials launched an expansion of the world famous Panama Canal. Officials agreed to the expansion so that many of the world’s largest cargo…

Russian officials hope the new U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will work to improve relations between the two countries despite the resignation of Michael Flynn, the national security advisor.…

Hilary Moore Hebert had a simple idea. She knew many visitors to Washington, D.C. buy fare cards to ride the city’s public transportation system. What would happen, she wondered, if…

The president of Turkmenistan won re-election with nearly 98 percent of the votes, the country’s election commission reported. President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was elected to a third term which will last…

A system to transport bullet-shaped people movers at super-fast speeds recently got its first real-world test. The system, called Hyperloop, was the idea of American businessman Elon Musk. He created…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is changing his deadly war on drugs. The change came after the killing last October of a South Korean businessman by Philippine police officers working on…

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is the new president of Somalia. He defeated incumbent president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, after two sets of voting. The new leader formerly served as Somalia’s prime minister.…

The United Nations has asked for $2.1 billion to help Yemen where millions of people are caught in a two-year-old civil war. A Saudi Arabian-led coalition began bombing in the…

Reaksmey Mary was disabled with a serious illness when she was six months old. She is confined to a wheelchair and lives with her family on an island in the…

Japan is reportedly planning to approve new visa rules to attract more foreign workers. The proposed change comes as the United States considers new immigration reforms to limit the number…