WASHINGTON — Restoration work on the White House North Portico is nearing completion before Chinese President Xi Jinping ’s state visit to the United States in late September. Trump’s White House North Portico project nears completion with shroud and scaffolding removed Scaffolding was taken down Tuesday and followed the weekend removal of shrouds that had … Read more
chum salmon Representative image In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened summer-run chum salmon made it back to the Big Quilcene River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula each year. Decades of logging, road building and habitat degradation had left the river choked with sediment, its gravel spawning beds buried and its side channels disconnected. Today, … Read more
Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi on Thursday said the integration of the Kurdish administration within Syria’s state institutions was complete, marking the end of the Kurds’ long-held dream of autonomy. Syrian Kurds announce completion of civil, military intergration with Damascus The announcement follows months of negotiations between the two sides after a January agreement that … Read more