New Zealand became the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage on Wednesday. Seventy-seven of 121 Parliament members voted in favor of amending the 1955 Marriage Act on the gay-marriage bill’s third and final reading. Cheers rang out after the result of the vote was announced and people from the […]
Rep. Bachmann (R-Minn) stunned leading intelligence chiefs during a hearing on worldwide threats late last week. The hearing was conducted by the House Intelligence Committee and heard from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, Defense Intelligence Agency director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, & FBI Director Robert Mueller, on worldwide threats to […]
The British journal The Telegraph is reporting that “Baroness Thatcher, Britain’s greatest post-war prime minister, has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke.” Her son, Sir Mark, and daughter Carol confirmed that she died this morning. Lord Bell, her spokesman, said: “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced […]
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, former Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM), Michele Flournoy, and Armed Services Committee member Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) tell David Gregory that China needs to step up their role in calming the rising tensions on the Korean peninsula on Meet the Press. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
North Korean state-run television has released video of soldiers training military dogs and conducting firing drills, in what is being interpreted as further provocation of neighbouing South Korea. It comes as the North, angry about UN sanctions imposed following its third nuclear weapon test in February, has made increasingly strident warnings of an imminent war […]