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Fields of dreams: Texas project seeks new corn strains for localized whiskey
A master distiller and a crop scientist who specializes in corn breeding are working on a project they hope one day will help bring local identities to American whiskeys. Seth Murray, a top corn breeder at Texas A&M University, and Rob Arnold, working on a ...
China seen flexing loan muscle as it pushes farther into Pacific, tentacles reach Papua New Guinea
In the gritty, steamy streets of Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, signs of China's push into the Pacific island nation are inescapable. A Chinese worker stencils a logo for China Railway Group outside the new national courthouse it's building; China Harbor Engineering Group laborers ...
Turning Japanese: Newly naturalized African ex-American has skin in the game
What motivated Henry Moreland Seals to decide that he'd sooner salute the Hinomaru than the Stars and Stripes?
Victims of sex trafficking could sue U.S. websites that connect customers to them, experts said, as a new law signals a drive by Washington to clamp down on soaring internet sex slavery. The legislation, passed in April, aims to make it easier to prosecute social ...
U.S. Republicans fear conservative backlash over 'mass amnesty' for young immigrants
The push toward immigration votes in the House is intensifying the divide among Republicans on one of the party's most animating issues and fueling concerns that a voter backlash could cost the GOP control of the House in November. To many conservatives, the compromise immigration ...
The government is considering holding a meeting of foreign ministers with North Korea on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum in Singapore in early August, informed sources have said. The government aims to resolve the abductions issue through direct talks ...
USS Mercy docks in Tokyo for show-and-tell visit with LDP lawmakers
A U.S. naval hospital ship docked in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Saturday at the invitation of a group of ruling bloc lawmakers who are calling for Japan to build hospital ships of its own. The visit is the first by the 272-meter USS Mercy. The ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday signaled that Japan would likely help shoulder the costs of North Korea's denuclearization under a potential international funding framework aimed at eliminating Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs. "As we stand to benefit from denuclearization, we must think about ...
Analysis says North Korea yet to dismantle missile facilities despite Trump claim
North Korea has apparently yet to begin work to dismantle any of its six known missile launch and engine test facilities and two ejection test stands, according to an analysis of recent satellite photos, despite a claim by U.S. President Donald Trump that the ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have "great chemistry" and claimed the standoff with the nuclear-armed nation is "largely solved." Trump, speaking to reporters outside the White House, said he had given his "very direct" telephone ...
Trump nominee for ambassador to South Korea, Harry Harris, backs 'pause' in military exercises
President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to South Korea on Thursday backed the idea of a "pause" in major military exercises with South Korea, while talks on the North's nuclear program continue. "The whole landscape has shifted, and I believe that we should give exercises, ...
Pair whose teen graffiti lit Syrian war brace for regime attack on hometown
"Your turn, doctor." Seven years after scribbling the anti-Assad slogan that sparked Syria's war, activists-turned-rebels Moawiya Sayasina and Samer Sayasina are bracing for a regime assault on their hometown, Daraa. They were just 15 when they and friends, inspired by the Arab Spring revolutions they ...
