SAN DIEGO — A 95-year-old former soldier died last weekend aboard a chartered Honor Flight carrying World War II veterans home to San Diego after an all-expenses-paid weekend trip to Washington, D.C. Frank Manchel collapsed about an hour before the American Airlines jet was due to land Sunday, The San...
Back to Earth: Washington Set to Allow 'Human Composting'
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington appears set to become the first state to allow a burial alternative known as "natural organic reduction" — an accelerated decomposition process that turns bodies into soil within weeks. The bill legalizing the process, sometimes referred to as "human composting," has passed the Legislature and is headed to...
North Korea Says It Tested New Weapon, Wants Pompeo Out of Talks
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Thursday that it had test-fired a new type of "tactical guided weapon," its first such test in nearly half a year, and demanded that Washington remove Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from nuclear negotiations. The test, which didn't appear to be of a...
Cox Chairs First Capitol Hill Meeting. It Lasted Just 12 Minutes.
Rep. TJ Cox chaired his first meeting of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday (Feb. 26). The official portion didn’t last long. The topic was how industries manipulate science and climate change information, but much of Twitter’s reaction was about the brevity...
Is a Cross OK on Public Land? Supreme Court Will Decide.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sounds as though it will allow a 40-foot cross-shaped war memorial to remain on public land in Maryland, but shy away from a sweeping ruling. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday in a closely watched case about the place of religious symbols in public life....
Worry About US-SKorea Alliance Grows Before Trump-Kim Summit
SEOUL, South Korea — As President Donald Trump seeks a nuclear deal with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week in Vietnam, some in Seoul are wondering if the fate of Washington's decades-long military alliance with South Korea could be at stake. Much of this worry is linked to...
Slatic Controversy Stirs the Anonymous Dregs of Twitter
Perhaps the most naive people in the world are those who believe Twitter is the bastion of intelligent opinion. Case in point: new Twitter handles popping up in the wake of the Terry Slatic controversy. Investigations continue over the physical confrontation involving a Bullard High School student and Slatic, a...
AP-NORC Poll: 6 in 10 Americans Blame Trump for Shutdown
WASHINGTON — A strong majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for the record-long government shutdown and reject his primary rationale for a border wall, according to a new poll that shows the turmoil in Washington is dragging his approval rating to its lowest level in more than a year....
My Turn: A California Solution to Immigration Policy
Have we had enough of the Washington gridlock on immigration issues? When our elected federal leaders find themselves incapable of fixing a decades-old problem, California not only has the right but the obligation to act in its own interests. Virtually all Americans agree that our immigration system is broken. If...
Catholic Student Says He Didn’t Disrespect Native American
PARK HILLS, Ky. — A Catholic high school student whose close encounter with a Native American activist and a black religious sect was captured on video in Washington, D.C. says he has nothing to apologize for. Nick Sandmann told NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday that he had every right to...