In bloom: 2018 Cherry Blossom Festivals
Places in Japan & South Korea to celebrate the bloom.

Places in Japan & South Korea to celebrate the bloom.
The oft-painted picture is that NASCAR is an outdated, expensive, sinking ship whose position among the elite American sports leagues is in jeopardy. But is that really the case?
In the aftermath of Villanova’s second national title in three years, the symbiosis between the conference and its crown-jewel program has never been clearer. Villanova is elevating the new Big East, and the new Big East is elevating Villanova.
As Tim Hill descended the steps into the visiting dugout, he could not stop the perspiration from collecting at collarbones. “I think I’m being optioned down,” he had told his girlfriend moments earlier.
Thursday on the 15th hole, in a Masters that could be defined by the crowded and charismatic leaderboards it produces, Sergio Garcia and Augusta National engaged in one of their old tussles, the kind — prior to last year — that the course always won by knockout.
What the golf world is watching here at the Masters from Tiger Woods this week is probably just one of the early chapters in what will become one of the greatest, and longest comebacks in sports history.
Friday's test at White Sands Missile Range demonstrated that the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, and the Patriot weapons systems could communicate as an integrated system.
With more American air assets being moved into Afghanistan to combat persistent insurgents and incursions by Islamic State affiliates, the role of weather forecasts will become increasingly significant.
Sources say Bradley Kinser, the former U.S. Army Africa major who killed himself and his Russian-born wife in Italy last week, had been was acting paranoid, irritable and combative at his job in recent weeks.
The former U.S. Army Africa major was acting paranoid, and he was irritable and combative at his job, according to a source. His wife's friends said she told them he threatened to kill himself and her, and that he said he had stolen money from work.
President Donald Trump's hopes for a swift withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria may prove premature, because the Islamic State is showing signs of renewed strength in its last strongholds in the east of the country, Syrian Kurdish officials said Thursday.
Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye was Friday sentenced to 24 years in prison — effectively for the rest of the 66-year-old's life — after being found guilty of charges including bribery, coercion and abuse of power.
About 250 Japanese demonstrators sang, passed out leaflets and held up signs Friday to protest the arrival of CV-22 Ospreys a day earlier at the home of U.S. Forces Japan.
Efforts to recover and return the remains have been stalled for more than a decade because of the North's development of nuclear weapons and U.S. claims that the safety of recovery teams it sent during the administration of President George W. Bush was not sufficiently guaranteed.
Efforts to recover and return the remains have been stalled for more than a decade because of the North's development of nuclear weapons and U.S. claims that the safety of recovery teams it sent during the administration of President George W. Bush was not sufficiently guaranteed.
Jose Diaz pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of defrauding a U.S. Army program based at Kirtland Air Force Base by hiding payments to a Washington lobbyist who prosecutors allege was illegally hired to get funding from the program.
When an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen found the remains of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-2 at the bottom of the Coral Sea last month, Navy veteran Cecil Wiswell couldn't look at all of the pictures. The USS Lexington is, for Wiswell, a reminder of great times and great loss.
Col. Thomas P. Sherman, 44, will take over the top leadership post at the 88th Air Base Wing in June, replacing Col. Bradley McDonald, who will retire after a 24-year career and return to his home state of Idaho, according to Wright-Patterson.
In April, the Pentagon recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. This year’s theme is "Protecting Our People Protects Our Mission,” which highlights ongoing efforts by the Department of Defense to change the culture of the armed forces to eliminate sexual assault in the ranks.
Rumors have swirled among Marines that the 4th Marine Regiment is doomed to wander the Pacific — much like the mythical ghost ship The Flying Dutchman — due to the dishonor over surrendering. It is the largest organized Marine unit to ever do so in battle.
The president said he was acting in response to China's announcement of plans to introduce new import taxes on $50 billion worth of American goods. Beijing's action in turn followed Trump's April 3 move to target a similar amount of Chinese imports in a rebuke of China's trade practices.
The president said he was acting in response to China's announcement of plans to introduce new import taxes on $50 billion worth of American goods. Beijing's action in turn followed Trump's April 3 move to target a similar amount of Chinese imports in a rebuke of China's trade practices.
The helicopter had departed the Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., to conduct squadron training for landings in unimproved zones.
“I’m a United States Military veteran who served as a medic, and then fulfilled my dream taking care of people by becoming a nurse,” Faith Linthicum wrote. “I was recently fired from my job as a nurse at Kaiser Permanente for exercising my First Amendment right to free speech.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs issued an official news release Thursday afternoon, attempting to debunk warnings of any effort in President Donald Trump’s administration to privatize the agency’s vast health care system.
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