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President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping finished a second round of talks Saturday, bringing to a close a two-day summit said to have been a warm and laid-back counterpoint to the oftentimes frigid and tense relationship between the two global superpowers.North Korea and cybersecurity were among the key issues discussed in a series of wide-ranging and largely informal conversations ...
The United States' top intelligence official said he was concerned about recent leaks to the media that revealed some of the country's surveillance activities in a move that can damage U.S. intelligence capabilities. "I think we’re very, very concerned about it," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell Saturday. "For me, it is literally – not figuratively – l...
Newark Mayor Cory Booker officially announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate at a news conference in New Jersey on Saturday.Booker, 44, will run to fill the seat vacated by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died on Monday of viral pneumonia.“Democracy is not a spectator sport,” Booker said at the event. “Now as much as at any time we must bring people together, we must get actually into t...
What are unions good for? Check out this contest winner of the Canadian Labor Congress' one-minute message video to find out.
Severe weather - and a risk of tornadoes - was expected in parts of the Plains and Midwest over the weekend, as post-tropical storm Andrea continued to cause flooding along much of the East Coast Saturday.Michael Palmer, of weather.com, said Kansas City and Omaha, Nebraskas, were among the cities expected to see strong storms on Saturday.St. Louis was at risk of severe storms on Sunday, he added...
The Supreme Court began to hand down rulings last Monday, and will continue to do so this month, issuing decisions on a variety of hot-button issues -- ranging from the 1965 Voting Rights Act to whether a company can patent a human gene.It should not be forgotten that at the heart of cases on such controversial issues as DNA testing, same-sex marriage, the federal Defense of Marriage Act and affir...
A major general in the United States Army has been suspended from his duties as commander of forces in Japan over accusations he failed to “report or properly investigate an allegation of sexual assault,” the Department of Defense said Friday.The decision about Maj. Gen. Michael T. Harrison was taken by Secretary of the Army John McHugh and Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, according to a statement...
