Hiroshima trip by Obama stirs differing views across Pacific

Two very different visions of the hell that is war are seared into the minds of World War II survivors on opposite sides of the Pacific. Michiko Kodama saw a flash in the sky from her elementary school classroom on Aug. 6, 1945, before the ceiling fell and shards of glass from blown-out windows slashed her.

Obama departs on trip to Vietnam, Japan

File picture of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama walking to their limousine at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on March 25, 2016, upon their return from a four-day trip to Cuba and Argentina. AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM Andrews Air Force Base, United States: Barack Obama departed Saturday on a trip to Vietnam and Japan that will include the first visit to Hiroshima, site of the world's first nuclear attack, by a sitting US president.

Restored vintage World War II bomber certified to fly

A World War II aircraft that took nearly 16 years to restore might be flying over Kansas in the next few weeks after receiving a certificate of airworthiness from the Federal Aviation Administration. A nonprofit group called Doc's Friends on Friday officially accepted the FAA certificate for a B-29 bomber known as "Doc."

Cuban migrants climb down from lighthouse near Key West

The 19 Cuban migrants straddled atop the American Shoal lighthouse off Sugarloaf Key have come down and are being processed by immigration officials, Coast Guard officials said Friday afternoon. The migrants climbed down from the 109-foot structure around 5:30 p.m. Earlier in the day, the migrants had swum to the lighthouse after the Coast Guard approached their makeshift boat in the waters off Sugarloaf.

‘Tom Perez has guts’: US labor secretary being eyed as Clinton’s running mate

Perez has spent his years at the helm of the labor department fighting for paid leave, overtime pay and visiting workers on the ground - and he's not done yet On Tuesday night, the White House announced that the Obama administration had finalized a new rule that could potentially expand overtime benefits to 4.2 million more Americans. On Wednesday morning, Perez boarded Air Force Two and with Vice-President Joe Biden and flew to Columbus, Ohio, where they made the official public announcement inside Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams .

EgyptAir crash debris recovered

An engineer stands in front of a C-130 HAUP of the Hellenic Air Force, which took part and is on stand by, in the searching operation of the missing Egypt plane, at the military air base of Kastelli on the southern Greek island of Crete on Friday. CAIRO -- Search crews found human remains, luggage and seats from the crashed EgyptAir jetliner Friday but face a potentially more complex task in locating bigger pieces of wreckage and the black boxes vital to determining why the plane plunged into the Mediterranean.

The US doesn’t need to wait for an Arctic port to boost maritime safety, report says

Even though no one yet is offering to spend money to build a full-service U.S. Arctic port, some steps could - and should - be taken in the next few years to prepare for the potential onslaught of new maritime traffic in the Bering Strait and waters further north, a new federal report says. The report, issued by the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System 's Arctic task force, makes 43 specific recommendations it says would improve safety, communications and information for mariners using the narrow Bering Strait and the Chukchi and Beaufort seas to the north in the near future.

World not safer with the US as its policeman

When Elizabeth Trudeau, director of the US State Department Press Office, read a statement on Tuesday about a US Navy surface ship "exercising the right of innocent passage" while transiting near China's Yongshu Reef that day, she said it was to uphold the rights and freedoms of all states under international law and to challenge the excessive maritime claims of some claimants in the South China Sea. She was soon challenged by an Associated Press reporter about who determines what constitutes an excessive maritime claim.

Mashpee Police Receive Promotions, Recognition

Uniformed officers, along with police from other towns and members of the Mashpee Fire Rescue Department, lined the walls. Among several other positions, Chief Scott W. Carline said that his promotion as police chief-which took place in August, following former chief Rodney C. Collins' acceptance of the Mashpee Town Manager position-created an opening for the title of master officer.