Godspeed: John Glenn, the last surviving member of the Mercury 7 astronauts and the first American to orbit Earth, died yesterday at age 95. In 1962 with the US losing the space race and the nuclear arms buildup to the …

It’s Political: Hillary Clinton went straight for the minority vote in last night’s debate with Bernie Sanders in Milwaukee. She said, “I want to tackle those barriers that stand in the way of too many Americans right now. African-Americans who …

Fame and Fortune: Actor Sean Penn secretly met with the notorious drug dealer “El Chapo” while he was on the lam and interviewed the fugitive for Rolling Stone Magazine. The craggy-faced actor is seen in a picture shaking El Chapo’s …

SkyFall: Easy come, easy go. European stocks jumped today even though China’s main index dropped another 7.6 percent and Tokyo’s Nikkei was four percent lower. US stock futures are up 600 points this morning after the drama that began last …

Nation: The Justice Department says it will not bring charges against the Ferguson, Mo. police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager last summer, but at the same time says there is so much racial bias in the Ferguson police …

Ukraine: An agreement to cool the Ukraine crisis, including the withdrawal of armed protesters occupying government buildings, has been reached between the US, Russia, Ukraine and European countries. A joint statement says, “All illegal armed groups must be disarmed; all …

Ukraine: In the biggest firefight so far, Ukrainian forces killed three pro-Russian protesters, wounded 13 and captured 63 in the eastern city of Mariupol. The government said the separatists tried to storm a base occupied by the Ukrainian National Guard. …

Spring in Korea: About 100 Artillery shells from a North Korean live fire exercise landed in waters claimed by South Korea and the South Koreans returned fire, lobbing about 300 shells into northern waters. All the shells landed in the …

Ukraine:  Interim President Oleksandr Turchynov said his country will seek closer ties with the European Union, just what thousands of protesters were demanding in the fiery violence that took at least 77 lives. “We have to return to the family …

World: South Korea put its troops on alert after North Korea claimed to have unilaterally cancelled the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War. The North also shut down the Red Cross telephone hotline between the two countries used for …