A plan to move a U.S. Marine base on Okinawa, Japan, to a less populated part of the island is meeting opposition by residents of the ecologically important stretch of coastline.... Read more»
The president’s State of the Union address got the facts right — mostly. Often the president’s facts and figures were accurate — but not the whole story. (with video)... Read more»
If we are to get our deficits under control, then we no longer have the luxury of throwing countless billions of dollars at Pentagon research and development and hoping they land somewhere else.... Read more»
Scientists have identified a new species of dinosaur, Yueosaurus Tiantaiensis or “Tiantai Yue Dinosaur,” from a fossilized skeleton found in eastern China.... Read more»
The Humane Society of Southern Arizona is reminding dog owners to be cautious with the treats they feed their canine companions after a dog died in Ohio after eating treats made in China.... Read more»
The death of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Il and the accession to power of his son Kim Jong Un has the world wondering in what the future holds for “the hermit kingdom” ... and its neighbors.... Read more»
The world is a better place now that Kim Jong Il is no longer in it. For more than six decades, people in North Korea have been consigned to lives of dire poverty and cruel oppression under one of the most totalitarian regimes the world has ever known.... Read more»
The gloomy global economic situation, and recent scale-backs in HIV funding around the world, have cast great doubt as to whether policymakers will take advantage of the combination of new prevention tools to fight AIDS.... Read more»2
Though Mayor Bloomberg didn’t call in the tanks, New York City police officers were filmed using pepper spray on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters in a clearance of the city’s downtown Zuccotti Park.... Read more»
While millions of people are getting ready to enjoy pecan pies for Thanksgiving, Sahuarita farmer Richard Walden and his crews at Farmers Investment Co. are getting ready for the upcoming holiday by preparing for their annual pecan harvest.... Read more»
We found several exaggerations and misstatements in the latest Republican presidential candidates’ debate. Romney issued a hollow threat to take China’s currency manipulation to a world body that doesn’t actually deal with overvalued money, and he claimed federal spending consumes more of the nation’s economic output than it really does.... Read more»
With all the new technology and endless data produced in a rapidly changing world, companies must adapt or risk being left behind, a group of global business leaders said at a Glendale meeting.... Read more»
The Dalai Lama has blamed a “cultural genocide” in Tibet, under the Chinese government’s hard-line approach to the region, for the trend of self-immolations of Tibetan monks and nuns.... Read more»
China, of course, denies that it conducts and sponsors cyber warfare and espionage, but there is plenty of evidence it is the world’s biggest practitioner of those electronic black arts.... Read more»
There is a segment of the U.S. economy that employs more than 100,000 people – and during the past year, employment in that segment grew by more than 6.8 percent. That bright spot is the U.S. solar industry - one of the fastest-growing industries in the nation.... Read more»
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