The Paperboy’s Secret
My first job in journalism—long before I knew that I wanted to write, and decades before I became a foreign correspondent—was delivering newspapers for the Columbia Missourian. I started at 5 A.M. on February...
WHO Chief Visits Epicenter Of Ebola Outbreak As Virus Spreads Faster Than The Response
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo’s Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus...
5 Rescued After Being Trapped In Flooded Laos Cave For 10 Days, 2 Still Missing
BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers in Laos said Saturday they have safely evacuated four villagers trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days, the day after another one was successfully extracted. Two men remain...
The Knicks: The Only Game in Town
For Knicks fans, the half century since those two titles has been a prolonged excruciation with intermittent periods of thwarted hope. Ask Spike Lee, who, as a kid, attended the radiant 197src finale and...
Inside Lebanon’s Fraught Push to Disarm Hezbollah
The thud of Israeli air strikes shook Beirut’s military court as it worked through its docket one morning in early March. Inside a black metal cage at the courtroom’s edge, three men waited silently...
U.S. And Iranian Negotiators Reach Tentative Deal To Extend Ceasefire And Start New Nuclear Talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement Thursday to extend the ceasefire in the 3-month-old war by 60 days and start a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program,...
Russian Drone Crashes In NATO Member Romania, Injuring 2
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone that was part of an overnight attack on Ukraine slammed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people in the NATO member country, Romanian authorities...
Israeli, Russian Forces Added To UN Blacklist For Sexual Violence In Conflict Zones
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their...
Netanyahu Orders Military To Expand Israeli Control Of Gaza To 70%
JERUSALEM, May 28 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he had directed Israel’s military to take more of Gaza, initially by seizing 70% of the Palestinian territory, where the population is...
Donald Trump Gets Even
For this week’s Letter from Trump’s Washington, Antonia Hitchens is filling in for Susan B. Glasser.“I love getting even with people,” Donald Trump told Charlie Rose, in a 1992 interview. Trump was promoting a...