iStock/Thinkstock(BEIJING) — China has cut its economic growth target for 2016 in a range of 6.5-7 percent. At the beginning of China’s National People’s Congress on Saturday local time, the government announced the growth target change, normally a Read More
Department of Defense(NEW YORK) — Co-anchor of ABC News’ This Week and ABC’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, Martha Raddatz, went on board the USS Harry S. Truman, located in the Persian Gulf, and got a look at the Navy aircraft carrier and the fight Read More
Win McNamee/Getty Images(HAVANA) — Secretary of State John Kerry will not be undertaking his own visit to Cuba before President Obama’s upcoming visit. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Friday that Kerry called Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Read More
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LONDON) — After receiving heavy criticism for tax avoidance, Facebook is now making changes to its corporate structure, according to BBC – and it won’t be cheap. Starting in April, its large advertising revenue initiated in Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Is Kim Jong-un’s order placing North Korea’s nuclear weapons ready for use at a moment’s notice to carry out preemptive attacks realistic? Does North Korea even have an arsenal of nuclear weapons? Do North Read More
noaa.gov(NEW YORK) — The deepest part of the ocean — the Mariana Trench — is proving to be eerily noisy. Scientists recorded ambient noise for three weeks from a hydrophone placed 36,000 feet below the ocean surface in the Challenger Deep trough in the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkish newspaper Zaman is now under the government’s control following a court’s ruling, the BBC reports. While no reason was provided for the court’s decision, the newspaper has been known to be critical of Read More
NASA(NEW YORK) — It’s been eight months since New Horizons flew past Pluto and we’re still learning more about the dwarf planet from the trove of information the space probe continues to send back to Earth. The latest view shared by NASA shows mountains Read More
Nikita Shvetsov/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A Ukrainian pilot vowed to go on hunger strike after being denied a closing statement at her trial, the BBC reports. Nadia Savchenko, who is accused of killing two Russian journalists using artillery fire from Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Thursday handed back more than two dozen historic documents stolen from Russia’s state archives during the 1990s amid the chaos that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. The 28 documents include an order signed by Read More
