A grower in Rhode Island has smashed his own son’s giant pumpkin record with a gourd weighing 1,026 kilograms (2,261 pounds). Richard Wallace’s pumpkin beat the North American giant pumpkin record set by his son, Ron, at the same event last year. Ron Wallace’s pumpkin topped the scales at 1,100 kilograms (2,230 pounds) at the […]
RIVERSIDE, California – Asian American and Pacific Islander voters are an increasingly influential part of the electorate – including in battleground states such as Nevada, Virginia, and North Carolina – and they are leaning more Democratic than they did four years ago.The National Asian American Survey released an important poll this week to shed light […]
Hurricane Matthew is pounding the Bahamas as it propels toward Florida, forcing residents and emergency workers there and in other southeastern U.S. states to hastily prepare for its arrival on Thursday. At least 108 people in Haiti were killed after Hurricane Matthew slammed Tuesday into the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Monday to suspend an agreement with the United States on disposing of weapons-grade plutonium, citing Washington’s “unfriendly actions”. It also claimed the United States was unable “to ensure the implementation of its obligations to utilize surplus weapons-grade plutonium”. The deal, initially signed in 2000 and renewed in 2010, […]