For the first time in nearly six weeks, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears in public in images released Tuesday by state media. The North Korean ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun published photographs of Kim visiting a new housing complex in Pyongyang. The newspaper coverage included full-length photos showing Kim smiling and leaning on […]
A Navajo court has disqualified a tribal presidential candidate running for the top elected post on the largest U.S. Indian reservation because he has refused to demonstrate his fluency in the Navajo language. Chris Deschene, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and a lawyer, refused to answer questions in the Navajo language Thursday at a hearing […]
The U.S. agency that oversees health care for the country’s 21 million military veterans has fired four senior executives as it attempts to end long wait times for patients seeking medical care. The firings at the Department of Veterans Affairs are the first since Congress made it easier for the agency to get rid of […]
North and South Korean warships exchanged warning shots near a disputed sea border Tuesday, days after the two sides agreed to high-level talks that many hope could improve inter-Korean relations. Seoul defense officials say a South Korean naval ship fired a warning shot after a North Korean vessel crossed the so-called Northern Limit Line off […]