April2017

News Hour: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence put North Korea on notice on Monday, warning that recent U.S. strikes in Syria and Afghanistan showed that the resolve of President Donald Trump should not be tested. Pence...

News Hour: Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on Monday in response to a call by prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, widely seen as a possible future Palestinian president. Palestinians termed the open-ended...

News Hour: In its first legal test, a San Francisco judge is set to consider whether to temporarily block US President Donald Trump’s executive order to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities. These are cities...

News Hour: White women in the US are now living shorter and unhealthier lives. The problem is hitting women in rural areas the hardest. Research shows drug abuse and depression are taking their toll, but some...

News Hour: South Korean prosecutors on Monday charged ousted president Park Geun-hye and Lotte Group chairman Shin Dong-bin with bribery in the latest twist to a corruption scandal that rocked the country for months. Prosecutors charged...

News Hour: The extradition of a former state governor for Mexico’s ruling party arrested in Guatemala at the weekend on corruption charges could take up to a year, a senior Mexican official said on Monday. Javier...

News Hour: The Fate of the Furious has raced to the top of the box office chart – breaking an international record in the process. The eighth film in the action thriller franchise took an estimated...

News Hour: OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Monday its experimental lung cancer drug failed a mid-stage study, sending its shares tumbling 30 percent in premarket trading. This is the second major setback for OncoMed this month...

News Hour: EagleClaw Midstream Ventures LLC, the largest privately held operator of pipelines and processing facilities in West Texas’ Delaware Basin, said it agreed to be bought by funds managed by Blackstone Group LP for about...

News Hour: Russian anti-monopoly watchdog FAS and Alphabet Inc’s Google have reached an out-of-court settlement in a case over the Android operating system, FAS said on Monday. The deal was approved by a Russian court earlier...