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Retired U.S. astronaut and University of Tennessee Space Institute graduate Scott Kelly will speak at the school's "Welcome Week Life of Mind" celebration. Kelly's talk is a part of UT's First-Year Studies 100 class, which is a zero-credit pass-fail class that gives students their first taste of college studies.
In this combination of images made from pool video, U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens as Vietnamese rapper Suboi raps during a town-hall style event for the Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative at the GEM Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Suboi rapped and asked Obama about the importance of governments promoting the arts and culture.
Congratulations, you're now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we'll send them straight to your inbox. Ian Harris, who is originally from Marus Bridge but now lives in London, was shocked to receive a phone call from the campaign office for the controversial, larger-than-life Republican candidate to replace Barack Obama as president.
Boeing Co. won an $11.3 billion order from Vietnam's only private airline, dealing a blow to rival Airbus Group SE in a battle over the growing market for low-cost air travel in Asia.
She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi street-side restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam's famed "bun cha" delicacy.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan decried the totalitarian repression of the Soviet Union by calling it the “focus of evil in the modern world.” Yet in 1988 while visiting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia, Mr. Reagan felt the need to soft-pedal his rhetoric when asked by a reporter if he still considered the Soviet Union to be an “evil empire.” The president said he was referring to a “different era” when he used that term. Our elected leaders must sometimes walk diplomatic tightropes while traveling around the world.
The head of the Transportation Security Administration warned travellers Friday to expect long airport security lines to continue during the peak summer travel season despite Congress' shifting of $34 million to the agency. Peter Neffenger briefed officials in Chicago on Friday about efforts to address crushing delays in getting passengers through security checkpoints at major airports around the country.
The top U.S. general for the Middle East said Friday that he is confident that Iraq is on course to defeating the Islamic State extremist group. Gen. Joseph Votel, the new head of U.S. Central Command, spent the day consulting with U.S. and Iraqi military officials and visiting a base north of Baghdad that is training Iraqi army combat units.
The top American general for the Middle East said Friday he is confident that Iraq is on course to defeating the Islamic State, but his words were spare and cautious, his tone notably muted. Gen. Joseph Votel, the new head of U.S. Central Command, spent the day consulting with U.S. and Iraqi military officials and visiting a base north of Baghdad that is training Iraqi army combat units.
The City of Chicago has made notable progress on expanding its network of protected bike lanes into more community areas and communities of color than it had before Rahm Emanuel became mayor, but it seems nothing is better about the way bicyclists and pedestrians are accommodated around construction projects . The city has even beefed up detour rules multiple times to benefit human-powered transportation.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday he favored punishing women who obtain abortions if the procedure were outlawed, before retreating hours later amid criticism from his rivals for the White House. Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
NEW YORK >> The Trump administration is considering closing down the recently reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana following a string of unexplained incidents harming the health of American diplomats in Cuba, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday. Tillerson's comments were the strongest indication to date that the United States might mount a major diplomatic response, potentially jeopardizing the historic restart of relations between the U.S. and Cuba.