The U.S. Navy confirmed on Monday that all seven missing sailors on the USS Fitzgerald were found dead after the destroyer’s collision with a container ship off Japan over the weekend. All seven were found in flooded berthing compartments after the collision with a Philippine-flagged container ship south of Tokyo Bay early on Saturday. The U.S. Navy identified them as […]
» Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States on June 25-26. This will be his fifth trip to the U.S. in three years and his first in 2017. Mr. Modi is expected to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on June 26 and hold talks. He will meet Mr. Trump both one-on-one and with a delegation.
» Read moreThe U.S. is looking forward to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington later this month, the State Department has said. “We look forward to having the (Indian) Prime Minister here in Washington— I believe it’s later this month,” State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert told reporters at her daily news conference on Thursday. Mr. Modi is expected to travel to […]
» Read moreTrump on Wednesday nominated lawyer and former Justice Department official Christopher Wray as the new FBI director. Mr. Wray, a litigation attorney with law firm King & Spalding in Washington and Atlanta, previously served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division from 2003 to 2005. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of […]
» Read moreA software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, who was working for Infosys, and his three-year-old son have drowned in a swimming pool in the US, according to news reports. Nagaraju Surepalli, 31, was from Guntur. He worked and lived in Michigan with his wife and young son. His body was found along with his son’s on Tuesday in the swimming pool […]
» Read moreAnanya Vinay never looked all that impressed by any of the words she was given in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 12-year-old from Fresno, California, showed little emotion and didn’t take much time as she plowed through word after word. Sometimes she would blurt out questions, with little intonation “Part of speech?” “Language of origin?” and […]
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