Korea A-bomb victims angered by Obama’s Hiroshima visit

A group representing Korean victims of the US atomic bombings of Japan protested Thursday that their suffering was being neglected ahead of President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima. The Association of Korean Atomic Bomb Victims estimates that anywhere between 40,000 and 70,000 Koreans died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki when atomic bombs laid waste to the two cities in August 1945.

Real estate world aflutter as Obama looks for his next home

Real estate circles buzzed Wednesday over reports that President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have decided to lease a nine-bedroom mansion in one of Washington's poshest neighborhoods when he leaves office in January. With a sprawling terrace and a castle-like exterior, the home sits on a quarter-acre lot just down the road from the Naval Observatory, the vice president's official residence, in the wealthy Kalorama neighborhood near Embassy Row.

Donald Trump, the saviour of television news?

Like or loathe him Donald Trump has given a new understanding to the old adage, there is nothing called bad publicity. Over the years Donald Trump has used his much talked about wealth, often by himself; over publicised marriages and divorces; and his extravagant lifestyle as the cornerstone of his publicity strategy.

Obama seeks better relations with US foes

In his final stretch as president, Barack Obama is driving the United States toward friendlier relations with longstanding adversaries, working to consign bitter enmities with Vietnam, Iran, Cuba and Myanmar to the history books. Though the reconciliations have been years in the making, Obama hopes he can prove the benefits of his softer approach before he hands control to an uncertain successor in January.

Obama uses light moment with rapper to espouse free speech

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.

Young Vietnamese quiz Obama on rap, weed and good looks

Barack Obama fielded questions Wednesday on everything from rap and weed smoking to his good looks at a lively meeting with young Vietnamese, who see the US leader as a far cry from their staid Communist rulers. US President Barack Obama listens as a young female rapper sings a song at a town hall event in Ho Chi Minh City The US President, on the final leg of a three-day trip to Vietnam before flying to Japan, held one of his trademark town hall gatherings with hundreds of youngsters in the country's buzzing commercial and creative capital Ho Chi Minh City.

Young Vietnamese quiz Obama on rap and good lo…

US President Barack Obama walks on stage to meet Vietnamese youths, members of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative program at the GEM Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 25 May 2016. EPA/DIEGO AZUBEL Ho Chi Minh City: Barack Obama fielded questions Wednesday on everything from rap and weed smoking to his good looks at a lively meeting with young Vietnamese, who see the US leader as a far cry from their staid Communist rulers.

Obama to wrap up trip to Vietnam by talking to young leaders

President Barack Obama tours a high-tech displays in an open work space at the DreamPlex Coworking Space in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. President Barack Obama tours a high-tech displays in an open work space at the DreamPlex Coworking Space in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

The Latest: Winner in Texas education runoff thanks rival

Mary Lou Bruner's defeat Tuesday followed heightened attention over old Facebook posts in which she claimed President Barack Obama was gay prostitute and suggested that Democrats assassinated John F. Kennedy. The 69-year-old Bruner had fallen only two points shy in March of becoming the Republican nominee for one of 15 seats on the powerful Texas State Board of Education.

Time to Shove the ‘Free Love’ Generation Out the Door

The leftists who came of age in the counterculture revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s are now in charge in both Europe and the U.S., and facing a populist backlash. They failed to learn the lessons of their own experiences, and it's time for them to be dropkicked into the waste bin of history.

On the Agenda But Off Guest List, China Eyes G-7 Summit in Japan

World leaders meet in Japan this week for talks that will encompass the slowing Chinese economy and China's reclamation of land in the disputed South China Sea -- without any representatives from Asia's largest economy at the table. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will host U.S. President Barack Obama and other Group of Seven leaders from Thursday at a secluded resort on Kashiko Island, 300 kilometers southwest of Tokyo.

Prosecutor: Alabama speaker made $2.3 million off his office

Ferguson's city attorney has announced plans to step down, just a few weeks after the St. Louis suburb engulfed in racial unrest since Michael Brown's 2014 death announced they were replacing her as local... Ferguson's city attorney has announced plans to step down, just a few weeks after the St. Louis suburb engulfed in racial unrest since Michael Brown's 2014 death announced they were replacing her as local prosecutor. Opening statements are expected to begin Tuesday in the murder trial of an actor who played a police officer in the television series "The Shield."

Texas education board candidate known for conspiracy posts

She is a retired Texas schoolteacher who has claimed President Barack Obama is a gay prostitute, Democrats orchestrated the assassination of John F. Kennedy and dinosaurs might not be extinct had bigger ones on Noah's Ark been able to reproduce. Mary Lou Bruner is also the front-runner in a Republican primary runoff Tuesday for a seat on the influential state education board - a nomination the 69-year-old nearly clinched outright despite a lengthy social media history of posting about conspiracy theories and fringe screeds.