LOS ANGELES—Veteran blues musician B.B. King died of natural causes primarily stemming from Alzheimer’s disease, Nevada officials said Monday, putting to rest accusations by his two daughters that he was murdered. King’s death at age 89 in May was also attributed to coronary artery disease, diabetes, heart failure, high blood pressure and brain damage from […]Load more...
The Switzerland-based team attempting to fly a solar-powered plane around the world says the flight has been suspended until next April because of irreparable damage to its batteries. The team says the batteries on the Solar Impulse 2overheated during its five-day flight from Nagoya, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii on June 30. The team says it did […]Load more...
Donor countries that contribute the lion’s share of funding to fight the global HIV epidemic have put the brakes on financial assistance. A new report found that more than half of the governments decreased their contributions to low- and middle-income countries to fight HIV/AIDS, with only a modest increase in assistance by some countries. In 2014, donations […]Load more...
An American teenager who survived a small plane crash, then managed to find her way off a rugged Washington mountainside, finally made it home just as word came that searchers had located wreckage in the area where she emerged from the woods. Aerial searchers reported spotting wreckage, but crews were not able to reach the heavily […]Load more...
If the newly-reached accord between Iran and major world powers works as designed, it will keep Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon for the next decade and beyond. Some analysts say another way to judge the deal reached Tuesday in Vienna is whether it keeps Arab governments, many of whom view Iran as a main […]Load more...
President Barack Obama staunchly defended the historic deal that aims to restrain Tehran’s nuclear development program Wednesday, saying it represents the world’s best «means of ensuring Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.» Seeking to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. lawmakers and the American public, Obama insisted the landmark agreement is also the […]Load more...
AUREL, MARYLAND—A U.S. spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the most distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion km) that began nine-and-a-half years ago. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed by the ice-and-rock planetoid and its entourage of five moons at 7:49 a.m. Eastern (1149 […]Load more...
WASHINGTON—Candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential race are sounding off on the Iranian nuclear deal, and their reactions primarily are split along party lines. Republican contenders have been critical and blunt in their assessment of the agreement. Their skepticism contrasts with much warmer reactions from the Democratic side. Here is a list (in alphabetical order) […]Load more...
LONDON—Greece’s government on Tuesday submitted tough new bailout legislation to parliament, with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pressing lawmakers to support reforms demanded by European creditors in exchange for badly needed cash. The bill specifies new taxes, pension reforms, tighter supervision of government finances and the sell-off of 50 billion euros’ worth of public sector assets. […]Load more...
WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers gave sharply diverging reactions to the landmark nuclear accord announced with Iran, with Republicans far more hostile than most Democrats. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted President Barack Obama would have a “real challenge” getting the pact through a skeptical, Republican-led Congress, and criticized it as “the best deal acceptable to Iran, […]Load more...
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