Los Angeles Times - Near East

• newSylvia Stottlemyer
  Sylvia Stottlemyer, who was an Apollo crew secretary, later rose to the ranks of senior management at Johnson Space Center.
  - 40 mins ago 16 Jul 19, 1:21pm -
• newChristine Darden: From 'computer' to engineer
  After beginning her career as a "computress" at NASA in Houston, Christine Darden worked 40 years at the agency, researching supersonic flight and sonic booms.
  - 42 mins ago 16 Jul 19, 1:19pm -
• newHow the women of NASA made their mark on the space program
  As the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing approaches, the women who helped America's early space efforts reflect on their often unheralded roles — and the indignities they endured.
  - 4 hours ago 16 Jul 19, 10:00am -
• new'Go back to where you came from': Our readers recall racist taunts from their lives
  After President Trump's racist tweets attacking four congresswomen of color, telling them to "go back" to the "places from which they came,"​​ we asked our readers if they had ever been told to "go back" to another country.
  - 8 hours ago 16 Jul 19, 5:54am -
• newEthiopian Israelis protest after officer in shooting of unarmed man is released and faces lesser charge
  An off-duty police officer who shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old Ethiopian Israeli in northern Israel on June 30 was released from house arrest on Monday after prosecutors reduced the charges he faces from manslaughter to involuntary manslaughte…
  - 17 hours ago 15 Jul 19, 8:37pm -

• newRadiation in parts of the Marshall Islands is far higher than Chernobyl, study says
  Think of the most radioactive landscapes on the planet and the names Chernobyl and Fukushima may come to mind.
  - 19 hours ago 15 Jul 19, 7:00pm -
• A Mississippi politician denied access to a female reporter. What is the 'Billy Graham rule' he cited?
  Robert Foster, a first-term Mississippi state representative running for governor, declined to allow a female reporter to cover a campaign trip — that is, unless she brought a male colleague with her.
  - 1 day ago 15 Jul 19, 10:00am -
• Mauna Kea telescope project faces activist protests
  Scientists hope the massive telescope they plan to build atop Hawaii's highest peak, a world-renowned location for astronomy, will help them peer back to the time just after the Big Bang and answer fundamental questions about the universe.
  - 1 day ago 15 Jul 19, 2:05am -
• Barry, now a tropical depression, soaks much of Louisiana while sparing New Orleans
  Barry continued to soak Louisiana and Mississippi as it weakened to a tropical depression Sunday over Northwestern Louisiana.
  - 2 days ago 15 Jul 19, 12:20am -
• Leadership vacuum in national defense positions is making Congress queasy
  When he resigned as defense secretary last December, Jim Mattis thought it might take two months to install a successor.
  - 2 days ago 15 Jul 19, 12:13am -
• Outdated software could make new voting systems vulnerable to hackers
  Pennsylvania's message was clear: The state was taking a big step to keep its elections from being hacked in 2020.
  - 2 days ago 14 Jul 19, 6:05pm -
• India scrubs historic moon mission less than an hour before liftoff
  Just 54 minutes before launch, India postponed a historic unmanned mission to the south pole of the moon on Monday due to a "technical snag."
  - 2 days ago 14 Jul 19, 5:22pm -
• Could the Apollo 11 moon landing be duplicated today? 'Lots of luck with that'
  The passage of half a century has blurred many of the reasons that the United States was able to accomplish what seemed like science fiction: the July 20, 1969, landing of Apollo 11 on the moon.
  - 2 days ago 14 Jul 19, 11:00am -
• Magnitude 7.3 earthquake causes panic in eastern Indonesia
  A strong, shallow earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Sunday, damaging some homes and causing panicked residents to flee to temporary shelters.
  - 2 days ago 14 Jul 19, 10:58am -
• Hurricane Barry hits Louisiana
  
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• 6.6 earthquake strikes off northwest Australia
  A magnitude 6.6 earthquake was reported Saturday evening at 10:39 p.m.
  - 2 days ago 14 Jul 19, 6:14am -
• New York power outage
  
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• Turkey receives missiles from Russia, rebukes from Congress
  Harsh words over the delivery to Turkey of a sophisticated Russian anti-aircraft system poured in Saturday, even as Moscow continued to deliver parts to an air base just outside the capital, Ankara.
  - 3 days ago 13 Jul 19, 11:46pm -
• Hurricane Barry weakens into a tropical storm, but officials warn there's more to come
  After making landfall on Louisiana's Gulf Coast on Saturday as a Category 1 hurricane, Barry swiftly weakened to a tropical storm as it buffeted this fragile, low-lying region with an onslaught of water and wind that downed power lines, flooded coast…
  - 3 days ago 13 Jul 19, 9:32am -
• Vietnam strains to reap the rewards of the U.S.-China trade war
  The requests that textile factory manager Huynh Thi Ai Diem receives are almost always the same: A foreign company is desperately trying to relocate production from China to Vietnam.
  - 4 days ago 12 Jul 19, 4:32pm -
• Europe wants to establish a trade conduit with Iran. Here's what that means
  As Iran presses on with its gradual dismantling of terms set by the 2015 nuclear deal, and while tensions with the U.S. increase ever higher, European signatories say a new financial mechanism can salvage the accord.
  - 4 days ago 12 Jul 19, 4:20pm -
• Germany's Angela Merkel sits during national anthems, raising more health concerns
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel opted to sit for the playing of national anthems during a ceremony Thursday in Berlin, a day after she trembled in public for the third time in the last few weeks.
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 10:40pm -
• Immigrant advocates and Democrats decry renewed threat of ICE raids
  President Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency could target thousands of immigrant families across the United States on Sunday for deportation, after scrapping a similar plan he announced last month on Twitter.
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 7:54pm -
• Joe Biden moves to regain footing with vow to restore pre-Trump world order
  Joe Biden moved to get his presidential campaign back on track Thursday by highlighting an advantage he had over the rest of the Democratic field — experience in foreign affairs — declaring himself the candidate best qualified to restore America'…
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 6:56pm -
• In a snub to China, the U.S. lets Taiwan's president spend some time in New York
  In 2006, when Taiwan's then-President Chen Shui-bian was flying east and needed to refuel, the United States forced him to do it in out-of-the-way Anchorage.
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 6:29pm -
• Tropical Storm Barry bears down on the Gulf Coast
  This low-lying Louisiana city — built on a crescent-shaped sliver of land surrounded by the mouth of the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of Mexico — has long battled water.
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 1:50pm -
• What's for sale at this outdoor market? Cold, hard cash
  The men stand in a maelstrom of money.
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 11:00am -
• A rebirth for Lourdes, France, driven somewhat by the saintly life of Bernadette
  Dazed by a series of light-filled spiritual apparitions in a remote southwestern French grotto, a teenager named Bernadette dressed in mid-19th century peasant garb hesitates for just a moment.
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 10:30am -
• Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon: How their presidencies shaped the mission to the moon
  The three presidents of the lunar decade played substantial roles — and were intimately affected — by the effort to reach the moon.
  - 5 days ago 11 Jul 19, 10:00am -
• Trump administration opens a new shelter for migrant youth — just as their numbers drop
  By the time a new federal shelter opened for migrant youths in this central Texas oilfield town last month, hundreds of children had been stuck for weeks in squalid Border Patrol stations.
  - 6 days ago 10 Jul 19, 11:37pm -
• Higher education groups worldwide warn of 'climate emergency,' U.N. reports
  Networks and organizations representing more than 7,000 institutions of higher and further education around the world have signed a letter declaring "a climate emergency" and committing to tackle it, the U.N. environment agency said Wednesday.
  - 6 days ago 10 Jul 19, 11:32pm -
• Back Story: The global financial scandal that has spread from Malaysia to Hollywood
  Accepting his 2014 Golden Globe Award for acting in "The Wolf of Wall Street," Leonardo DiCaprio thanked "Joey, Riz and Jho," three little-known producers and financiers, "for taking a risk on this movie."
  - 6 days ago 10 Jul 19, 3:23pm -
• Alternative energy efforts in Mexico slow as Lopez Obrador prioritizes oil
  With its windy valleys and wide swaths of desert, Mexico has some of the best natural terrain to produce wind and solar energy.
  - 6 days ago 10 Jul 19, 1:00pm -
• Read Kim Darroch's letter of resignation as UK ambassador to the United States
  Kim Darroch resigned as British Ambassador to the United States on Wednesday.
  - 6 days ago 10 Jul 19, 11:40am -
• British Ambassador Kim Darroch quits after leaked memos spur Trump attack
  Washington's "special relationship" with Britain has had its ups and downs under Donald Trump.
  - 6 days ago 10 Jul 19, 11:16am -
• Defying China blacklist, some Hong Kong celebrities are speaking out during protests
  Hong Kong singer Denise Ho spoke past two interruptions by a Chinese diplomat at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.
  - 6 days ago 10 Jul 19, 10:00am -
• Mexico's finance minister quits abruptly, sending peso tumbling
  Mexico's finance secretary abruptly resigned Tuesday over disagreements with the left-wing government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which he accused of fiscal "extremism."
  - 7 days ago 9 Jul 19, 10:57pm -
• Britain's contest for prime minister roiled by Trump's bare-knuckled attack on envoy to Washington
  President Trump's full-throated attack on Britain's ambassador to Washington is roiling the race for prime minister, putting the Trump-friendly front-runner in an awkward spot.
  - 7 days ago 9 Jul 19, 8:20pm -
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• Newsletter: Today: Trump's Envoy of Discord in Israel
  The provocations of President Trump's ambassador to Israel are upturning decades of U.S. diplomacy.
  - 7 days ago 9 Jul 19, 12:00pm -
• Remove China from UN rights council, urges Hong Kong's Denise Ho as diplomat interrupts twice
  
  - 7 days ago 9 Jul 19, 10:27am -
• Hong Kong leader says extradition bill is 'dead'
  Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Tuesday that an extradition bill that brought millions of protesters into the streets is now "dead."
  - 7 days ago 9 Jul 19, 3:08am -
• Newsletter: Today: Harsh Reality on the Rio Grande
  Migrants from as far away as Africa face difficult choices on the border.
  - 8 days ago 8 Jul 19, 12:00pm -
• The provocations of Trump's ambassador to Israel are upending decades of U.S. diplomacy
  Beaming and triumphant, David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, presided last week over a Fourth of July gala — the first to be held with the U.S.
  - 8 days ago 8 Jul 19, 11:00am -
• Death at the border: 4 from Guatemala, 3 of them children, succumb to heat in Texas
  Her sister had made the trek last year, following a familiar script: Cross into U.S. territory from Mexico with a minor child, surrender to the Border Patrol, and apply for political asylum — then get released and launch a new life in the United St…
  - 8 days ago 8 Jul 19, 10:00am -
• Why are migrants getting sick or dying on the border?
  In recent days, images of squalid conditions for migrants held by the Border Patrol have been made public by a congressman, federal government inspectors and advocacy groups.
  - 8 days ago 8 Jul 19, 10:00am -
• 12 killed, scores wounded in Afghanistan Taliban car bombing
  The Taliban carried out a devastating suicide car bombing in central Afghanistan on Sunday, leaving 12 people dead and more than 150 others wounded, Afghan officials said.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 9:15pm -
• Greek prime minister concedes election defeat
  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras conceded defeat Sunday after a partial vote count showed Greece's opposition conservatives comfortably winning the first parliamentary election since the country emerged from its international bailouts.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 8:18pm -
• In a Massachusetts city, immigration changes bolster the local economy
  Guatemalan bakeries, Honduran restaurants and Salvadoran markets are joining an already ethnically diverse mix of businesses in downtown Chelsea, a tiny industrial city across the Mystic River from Boston.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 8:03pm -
• Iran will exceed enrichment levels set by nuclear deal, country's officials say
  Iran announced on Sunday it had begun the process of enriching uranium beyond the limits set by a 2015 international accord aimed at keeping Tehran from eventually stockpiling nuclear-weapons-grade materials.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 6:30pm -
• Hong Kong protesters reach out to mainland Chinese in Kowloon march
  Beijing might have dreamed of a scene like this: a crowd of jubilant Hong Kong youths shouting the Chinese national anthem at the top of their lungs.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 12:29pm -
• San Francisco man gored in the neck in Pamplona bull run
  Five people were hospitalized after the opening bull run of this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona, including two Americans and a Spaniard who were gored by bulls, officials in the northern Spanish city said Sunday.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 11:33am -
• Leaked memos reveal British ambassador calling Trump's team 'clumsy and inept'
  When scathing descriptions like "inept" and "insecure" and "dysfunctional" are being tossed around, diplomacy is hardly the first thing that comes to mind.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 11:09am -
• Hong Kong protesters march on railway station
  
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 9:32am -
• Hong Kong marchers take their message to visitors from mainland China
  Protesters in Hong Kong are taking their message to visitors from mainland China on Sunday in a march to a high-speed rail station that connects to Guangdong city and other mainland destinations.
  - 9 days ago 7 Jul 19, 8:11am -