Twelve people in Paris are dead and an additional eight are injured after two hooded, heavily-armed men burst into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire there. Although investigators do not know the origin of the attackers,during the attack, it is reported that they hollered “God is great!” in Arabic, […]
Tuesday’s launch of an unmanned cargo ship to the International Space Station by a private company was canceled shortly before lift-off from the U.S. spaceport in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida. The countdown for the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was halted with just over one minute left due an unexpected technical problem. […]
WASHINGTON—The United States has disavowed any advance knowledge of a controversial New Year’s Day ceremony involving the raising of the Taiwan flag over the residence of the Taiwan representative to Washington. China’s Foreign Ministry denounced the ceremony and urged the United States to prevent similar events from happening again. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki […]
Immigrants to the U.S. with job offers often apply for work authorization. But immigrants from Latin America are less likely to have those requests granted than are immigrants from other regions, according to a new study conducted by scholars at MIT and Brown University — a study that also suggests a potential remedy for this […]