SEOUL—North Korea’s failed attempt to launch an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday is not the military set back it may seem, analysts said. It is instead, part of the natural progression in the development of an advanced nuclear weapons program. “While I think people will look at the failure and they will conclude that that […]
Another quake, this one measured at a magnitude of 7.0, struck the Japanese Island of Kyushu this morning, two days after a previous quake measuring 6.2 struck the region, killing nine and inuring over 1,000. This most recent quake struck just eight miles south of the epicenter of the earlier earthquake. For a short time, […]
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders won Saturday’s Democratic caucus in the Western state of Wyoming, but even in victory he failed to gain ground on his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the race to become U.S. president. Sanders won 56 percent of the vote. Democratic Party rules left each candidate with seven of […]
NEW YORK—Credit card debt in the United States is approaching $1 trillion, according to a study by CardHub.com, a company that tracks consumer financial issues. If that figure isn’t stark enough by itself, consider these, also from last month’s Card-Hub study: In 2015 alone, credit card debt rose $71 billion; $52 billion came in the […]