Honolulu – All Nippon Airways gave VIP tours of the world’s largest wide-body airplane following the arrival of a second successful test flight in Hawaii, officials said. The Japanese airline landed its A380 “Flying Honu” at Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport Wednesday, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Wednesday. Democratic Gov. David Ige and others toured [...]

Baltimore – The actions of students who died tackling gunmen at two U.S. campuses a week apart have been hailed as heroic. At a growing number of schools around the country, they also reflect guidance to students, at least in some situations, to do what they can to disrupt shootings. A majority of school districts [...]

New York – President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer says he is urging Ukraine to open investigations that could benefit Trump politically in the United States. Rudy Giuliani used Twitter on Friday to explain his rationale for traveling to Kiev to push for two investigations. One is the origin of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into [...]

London – U.S. commercial ships including oil tankers sailing through key Middle East waterways could be targeted by Iran in one of the threats to U.S. interests posed by Tehran, the U.S. Maritime Administration said in an advisory. The U.S. military said this week that a number of B-52 bombers would be part of additional [...]

Washington – Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican leader, said Friday he still struggles to forgive the man who wounded him and four others two years ago in a shooting at a congressional baseball practice . In a briefing with reporters about the week’s events in Washington, the Louisiana lawmaker detoured unprompted to [...]

New York – Stock valuations have climbed to levels reached just before Wall Street’s late 2018 plunge, leaving the market at risk of shocks such as the sell-off this week as global trade tensions mounted. But stocks may have more support than last year, due largely to lower bond yields and a more dovish outlook [...]

New York – Uber Technologies Inc’s shares fell nearly 9% in their debut on Friday, marking a rocky start to one of the most high-profile U.S. initial public offerings since Facebook Inc’s seven years ago. The stock’s opening at $42 undermined Uber’s strategy to price its oversubscribed IPO conservatively at $45 per share to avoid [...]

Amsterdam – A Jewish man was assaulted on the Netherlands’ national holiday of liberation from the Nazis by revelers who sang about gassing Jews. The man, identified in the Dutch media only as Joram, 35, complained to police that he was pushed around and verbally assaulted with anti-Semitic hate speech by a group of about [...]

Washington – Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved the transfer of $1.5 billion to build more than 80 miles of barriers on the border with Mexico, U.S. official said on Friday, including taking about $600 million in savings from an account meant for Afghan security forces. “The funds were drawn from a variety [...]

New York – Uber Technologies Inc’s shares fell nearly 9% in their debut on Friday, marking a rocky start to one of the most high-profile U.S. initial public offerings since Facebook Inc’s seven years ago. The stock’s opening at $42 undermined Uber’s strategy to price its oversubscribed IPO conservatively at $45 per share to avoid [...]