The biggest American automaker, General Motors, admitted guilt Thursday in hiding information from both the government and motorists about a deadly defect in its vehicle ignition switches that has been linked to at least 124 deaths in crashes. GM, third largest in the world behind Germany’s Volkswagen and Japan’s Toyota Motor, agreed to a $900 […]
Islamist rebels have captured a major airbase from government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, according to Syrian state television and a war monitoring group. The state TV report on Wednesday announced the military retreat from Abu Duhur military airport, where the Islamist extremists had imposed a nearly two-year-long siege. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory […]
The Obama Administration has given Royal Shell Oil permission to drill in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast. This is the first time gas and drilling operations have been given the go-ahead since an exploratory well was drilled in 1991. In a statement released Monday, an administration environmental official pledged to monitor the work […]
Former President Jimmy Carter announced Wednesday that he has cancer, discovered recently during liver surgery. Carter, 90, announced the diagnosis in a short statement. He did not specify what type of cancer he has, saying only that it was in “other parts” of his body. “A more complete public statement will be made when facts […]