SEOUL, South Korea — The black boxes from the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea on Sunday are the center of focus as a joint team of U.S. and South Korean investigators work to determine the cause of the deadliest aviation disaster of 2024. Data from the two black boxes, the flight data...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but wondered whether there was goodwill from Beijing given what he said was their blocking of simple things like tourism. Lai, who took office in May, has regularly offered talks with China but been rebuffed....
Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 50 years ago. At its peak in the Jim Crow 1960s, 500...
A fugitive killed in a shootout with authorities in Ohio last month was identified Monday as the suspect in the decades-old unsolved murder of an 18-year-old woman. New DNA evidence established proof “beyond a reasonable doubt” that James Vanest, 68, was responsible for the April 29, 1981 murder of Debra Miller, 18, the Mansfield Police...
A U.S. military court on Monday upheld a judge’s ruling that said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acted improperly this year when he invalidated plea agreements for three men accused of planning the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The Court of Military Commission Review heard an appeal that sought to preserve Austin’s move in August...
A judge was found dead in a Georgia courtroom on what was to have been his last day on the job, authorities said Tuesday. Effingham County Sheriff’s deputies found State Court Judge Stephen Yekel, 74, on Tuesday morning. He appears to have died by suicide, the sheriff’s office said. Yekel, who was appointed to the...
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday blasted what he called “illegitimate activity” aimed at undermining the independence of the judiciary. While facing criticism of contentious court rulings is part of the job for judges, some recent actions have crossed the line, Roberts said in his annual end-of-year report. He outlined four areas of...
The U.S. announced Tuesday that it is leveling sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia over attempted election interference. The Treasury Department said the entities — a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Moscow-based affiliate of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU — attempted to interfere in the 2024 elections. “As...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, on his last day in office Tuesday, commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates to life in prison without parole. One of the prisoners receiving clemency was convicted murderer Hasson Bacote, a Black man who had challenged his sentence under the Racial Justice Act of 2009, a groundbreaking state law...
The Summary The annual Quadrantid meteor shower is set to peak early Friday. It will be the first meteor shower of 2025. The upcoming show won’t be overshadowed by moonlight, as the crescent moon will set before the shower’s peak. Ring in the new year with the first meteor shower of 2025. The annual Quadrantid...