Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year. Driving south from Utah, I take bits ...

After the nation’s defeat in 1945, the former Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were dismantled, and Japan adopted a new ... capabilities to attack enemy bases, a measure that effectively guts ...

Starkly divergent views of the US under Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s China came into focus in Washington on Tuesday, when a ...

Rising high above the bustling streets of Japan’s capital, Tokyo Tower is a landmark that offers visitors an unforgettable ...

Six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they launched another assault with plans to occupy Midway Atoll and … ...

If the lake were to completely dry up there would be a horror to behold. While at shrinking Lake Mead a few gangster cadavers ...

In 1950, the Pirano family embarked on a daring 4,500-mile drive from Cape Girardeau to Fairbanks, Alaska, enduring extreme ...

Japan is belatedly addressing an issue described as critically urgent: how to protect undersea cables used for internet ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...