MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is heading to Moscow for talks Wednesday with Russian leaders amid a spike in tensions over attacks in Syria. Tillerson accused Moscow of complicity or incompetence in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians, while Russia called the U.S. response, a missile attack on […]
Police say a shooting at a southern California elementary school left two adults dead and two students critically wounded in what is being called a murder-suicide. Authorities say a male gunmen entered San Bernardino’s North Park Elementary School on Monday, shot dead an adult female in the classroom and then shot himself. Authorities say they […]
SEOUL — By sending a U.S. navy strike force into waters near North Korea, President Donald Trump is raising concerns that he is prepared to put America’s interests ahead of those of regional allies. The threat of force against North Korea has gained new credibility following U.S. airstrikes against Syria for using chemical weapons on its […]
Fourteen months after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the U.S. Supreme Court again has its full bench of nine justices with the swearing-in Monday of Neil Gorsuch. The new justice took two legally required oaths at separate ceremonies. The first was administered by Chief Justice John Roberts in private at the Supreme Court. Later, […]