BOSTON– Fresh off his first-class flight from Glasgow, he received a reception fit for a visiting dignitary: a bagpiper in full regalia playing inside Boston’s Logan International Airport. Waiting to receive him were the diplomats, the governor and the mayor of Boston. The guest of honor? An orange traffic cone. Tuesday’s arrival of the “Boston
WASHINTON– Kathryn Ruemmler, a former Goldman Sachs senior lawyer who was a White House adviser under President Barack Obama, will be questioned before a House committee on Wednesday about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Ruemmler is the latest prominent figure subpoenaed before the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers investigate the network of powerful people connected
The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda is one of the largest on record, with more than 1,700 cases confirmed since April. Dozens of governments and health organizations are supporting the public health response caused by the Bundibugyo species of Ebola virus. Their approaches reveal how global health
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NEW YORK — Maine Democrats are seizing on a new fatal shooting by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in their state, fighting to tie Republican Sen. Susan Collins to the beleaguered federal agency and steer the conversation away from the unrelated scandal that threatens to undermine their strength in a high-stakes U.S. Senate race. A federal
Dangerous. Sassy. Unprecedented. Unexplored territory. Reaction in the media world has been swift and severe over the issue of subpoenas of five New York Times journalists who reported on security issues related to the new Qatar-equipped Air Force One, a legal maneuver seen as a worrying escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign to control and