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Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, second left, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao, second right, in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. The Ruling-party candidate emerged victorious in Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday and his opponents conceded, a result that will chart the trajectory of the self-ruled democracy's relations with China over the next four years.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Column: Taiwan reconfirms equality as well as democracy

January 16, 2024 at 4:01 p.m.

Last weekend, Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, was elected president of Taiwan. He succeeds President Tsai Ing-wen, who served two terms and is the first woman to hold...

In this photo provided on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, inspects as he tours munitions factories on Jan. 8-9, 2024, in North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Column: North Korea provocations often overshadow South Korea’s impressive progress

January 10, 2024 at 7:05 a.m.

North Korea has decided to bring in the New Year with a bang. The Pyongyang regime over several days has fired sizable artillery barrages near a maritime buffer zone between...

People celebrate New Year at Plaza Altamira in Caracas, Venezuela, early Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Column: The state of the world is pretty darn good, no matter what you’re hearing

January 3, 2024 at 11:28 a.m.

"Let a smile be your umbrella ... a smile will always pay." That is from a tune which became very popular through a 1957 recording by Bing Crosby. Optimism is...

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Column: All’s well in Putin’s Russia, at least according to his carefully choreographed news conference

December 26, 2023 at 3:15 p.m.

"A world in which the Kremlin leader is right about absolutely everything." That is how Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg of the influential — and reliable — BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.)...

Allied infantrymen crouch low in the snow as they look out for snipers in embattled Saint Vith, Belgium, on Jan. 31, 1945 at the end of the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. (AP Photo)

Column: Christmastime marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge

December 19, 2023 at 12:18 p.m.

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi...

FILE - President John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot, Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Riding with President Kennedy are first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, second from left, and her husband, Texas Gov. John Connally, far left.
(AP Photo/Jim Altgens, File)

Column: Remembering John F. Kennedy

November 22, 2023 at 4:19 p.m.

The President of the United States travels to Texas to mitigate factional strife in his Democratic Party, and on Nov. 22, 1963 is gunned down on a Dallas street. Two...

President Joe Biden and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol stand as their two country's national anthems are played during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC on Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

Column: Recent summits highlight South Korea’s importance and impressive transformation

November 15, 2023 at 7:19 a.m.

The summit between presidents Joe Biden of the United States and Xi Jinping of China is by definition important news, but also highlights the serious growing economic problems of the...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan sit down together inside the Hofdi in Reykjavik, Iceland, Oct. 11, 1986 at the start of a series of talks. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart)

Column: World leaders must continue to contain the threat of nuclear weapons

November 8, 2023 at 8:41 a.m.

Generally under the radar of media and public attention, representatives of China and the United States met on Nov. 6 in Washington D.C. for the first exploratory discussions on nuclear...

President John F. Kennedy tells the American people that the U.S. is setting up a naval blockade against Cuba during a television and radio address on Oct. 22, 1962, from the White House. The president also said the U.S. would wreak "a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union" if any nuclear missile is fired on any nation in this hemisphere."

Column: It would be wise to apply lessons learned from the Cuban missile crisis to today’s global conflicts

March 12, 2024 at 11:52 a.m.

Last week was the anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation in history, yet the media and public paid little heed. From Oct. 22 to 28 in 1962, Washington and Moscow...

Antonio Macías' mother cries over her son's body covered with the Israeli flag at Pardes Haim cemetery in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Macias was killed when Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Column: Middle East explodes again with Hamas terrorism

October 18, 2023 at 6:54 a.m.

The massive, deadly Hamas attacks on Israel are rightly condemned by the United States and many nations in the world, though unfortunately not all. Beyond the shocking scale of the...

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