WASHINGTON—The United States Treasury says new rules relaxing trade and travel restrictions to Cuba will be implemented beginning Friday. The move is a step toward the Obama administration’s goal, announced last month, of normalizing ties with the communist nation. In a statement Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the United States is now “one step […]
SEOUL—Relations between Washington and Pyongyang have grown more contentious in the wake of the alleged North Korea cyberattack on the Sony Pictures movie studio. The U.S. was quick to reject a North Korean proposal to reduce regional tensions and is instead focused on pressuring and isolating the regime. North Korea is already under U.N. sanctions […]
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the former union financial secretary of the Carpenters Local Union 2247 in Juneau was sentenced for Embezzlement in District Court. 42-year-old Jonathan H. Smith was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess to “five years of probation with the condition that he serve four […]
The U.S. Navy has committed to get half of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2020. One element of that strategy will be looking to extract energy from tides, currents and waves. The University of Washington is helping to reach that goal with an $8 million, four-year contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering […]