AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Cecilia Munoz, President Barack Obama’s chief domestic policy adviser, keeps a framed letter from the late Democratic senator and immigration advocate Ted Kennedy in her West Wing office. “We didn’t complete the journey, but we’ll get there,” Kennedy wrote in 2007 following the collapse ...
The internal conflicts that have roiled the Republican Party since its dismal showing in November appear to be deepening as conservative activists and tea party officials have begun to loudly resist an establishment effort to blame them for the GOP’s 2012 troubles. The nation’s ...
Rep. Dave Camp is chairman of the esteemed House Ways and Means Committee, the oldest of all congressional panels and one with so much influence over the workings of the federal government that its past chairmen were routinely described as the most powerful men ...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday wagered his second term on an ambitious bid to strengthen America at home by reigniting its economic engine, cutting gun killings and fixing a broken immigration system. Focusing his State of the Union address squarely on domestic priorities, Obama ...
Washington AFP-JIJI In a reversal, President Barack Obama will hand lawmakers classified documents outlining the legal justification for drone strikes that kill U.S. citizens abroad who are conspiring with al-Qaida. An administration official disclosed the move Wednesday on the eve of a Senate hearing ...
Congress passed must-do legislation Thursday to permit the U.S. government to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars more to meet its obligations, averting a first-ever government default that had loomed as early as mid-February. The 64-34 vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate sent the measure ...
President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary said Thursday he will not hesitate to use the “full force of the U.S. military” as he plunged into a Senate confirmation fight with critics from his own Republican Party who worry that his past statements about ...
Sen. Robert Menendez’s office said Wednesday that he traveled three times on a plane owned by a prominent political donor but that the trips were paid for and reported appropriately. Menendez’s office also said that allegations that he engaged in sex with prostitutes in ...
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly confirmed U.S. President Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Democrats and Republicans praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton. The vote Tuesday was 94-3. One senator — Kerry — voted ...
Chuck Hagel, the likely next U.S. secretary of defense, would be the first to enter the Pentagon as a public advocate for sharply reducing the number of U.S. nuclear weapons, possibly without equivalent cuts by Russia. The former Nebraskan Republican senator is a supporter ...
The trio of Southern gentlemen came to the Senate together in 2003, the leading edge of a renegade Republican class set on shaking up the chamber’s staid ways and aggressively promoting the Bush administration’s conservative agenda. Ten years later, Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, ...
The Senate approved a deal Thursday that will keep the chamber’s long-standing 60-vote threshold for halting a filibuster but streamline some of the chamber’s more cumbersome procedures. Largely accepting the recommendations from a bipartisan team of senior senators, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and ...
