Joseph Biden III affectionately known as Beau,” the son of the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and Delaware’s former Attorney General, died from brain cancer, it was announced by the White House today. Beau was 46. Beau is the second child lost to the vice president. In 1972, VP Biden lost his wife, Neilia, and one-year-old […]
On a recent ski trip across the Seward Peninsula, I followed a trail along the Pilgrim River broken by five friends. Their path led to a subarctic oasis. Beyond the blank white of frozen river was a small settlement nestled in balsam poplar trees 60 feet high. The cleared fields, old farm equipment, scattered pine […]
The two leaders of the Bali Nine, who were convicted and sentenced to death in 2006, faced a firing squad shortly after midnight on the penitentiary island of Nusakambangan in Java. Two Australians, Myuran Sukumaran, 33, and Andrew Chan, 31, joined six other drug offenders in front of a 12-man firing squad in a jungle […]
BALTIMORE—Hundreds of protesters gathered Thursday in downtown Baltimore, in the eastern U.S. state of Maryland, to again demand changes to the justice system following the death of a 25-year-old man taken into police custody last week. Officials arrested two people for disorderly conduct in what was otherwise a loud but peaceful protest as the city […]