DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — A bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Congress met with Dalai Lama Wednesday at his residence in Dharamshala, India, angering China which considers the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism to be a dangerous separatist. This comes as Washington and Beijing recently Negotiations resumed after several years of turmoil It started after … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged, for the first time, the harmful role it has played over the past century in building and operating dams in the Pacific Northwest — dams that devastated Native American tribes by inundating their villages and decimating salmon runs while bringing electricity, irrigation and jobs to nearby … Read more
The United States emphasized and pressed The CEO of Boeing On Tuesday, he spoke about the company’s plans to resolve its manufacturing problems and its willingness to heed warnings from whistleblowers, while relatives of those who died in two Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashes were present in the room to remind him of the issues. … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding the company intentionally trespassed when it ran trains to several times 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik initially ruled last year that … Read more
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon emergency crews rescued 28 people Friday after they were trapped for about a half-hour upside down on a ride at a century-old amusement park. Portland Fire and Rescue said on the social platform All riders were evacuated and medically examined, and no injuries were reported. A rider with a pre-existing … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) – William Anders, the elder Apollo 8 The astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shaded blue marble from space in 1968 was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plunged into the waters off the San Juan Islands, Washington State. He was 90 years old. … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — Retired Maj. The general. William Anders, the elder Apollo 8 The astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shaded blue marble from space in 1968 was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plunged into the waters off the San Juan Islands, Washington State. He … Read more
MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox told Italian television Thursday that she was surprised by the Florence appeals court’s decision to find her. guilty of slander In light of a European Court ruling that the police who took his confession had violated his human rights. “I will fight for the truth,” Knox told Sky TG24 in … Read more
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — An Italian court re-convicted Amanda Knox on Wednesday of slander, even after she was exonerated of the brutal murder of her British roommate in 2007 when the two were exchange students in Italy. The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where … Read more
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials have closed the state’s entire coastline to mussel harvesting because of an “unprecedented” outbreak of seafood poisoning that has sickened at least 20 people. They also banned the harvest of razor clams, clams and oysters in parts of the Oregon Coast. “We had a paralytic seafood poisoning event in … Read more