Twelve South Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese military during World War II have sued the Seoul government over a deal it reached with Tokyo to pay the victims, saying it does not go far enough to establish Japan's responsibility.
The women are seeking $90,000 each from the South Korean government, which they say failed to hold the Japanese government legally responsible when it agreed to the settlement in December, a spokesman from the Seoul Central District Court said on Wednesday
Former S Korean sex slaves sue government over pay out
North Korea executed top educational official, says Seoul
North Korea has executed one of its vice premiers, according to South Korean officials.
Pyongyang also banished two other senior officials, Seoul said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of punishments North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is believed to have ordered
"Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin was executed," said Jeong Joon-hee, spokesman for South Korea's unification ministry.
Models for Donald Trump's agency say they worked in U.S. illegally
Donald Trump's modeling company was a “crooked agency” that put young women into “modern-day slavery” and had them working in the U.S. illegally, former models for the organization claimed in a bombshell report published Tuesday.
Trump Model Management, which was founded by the GOP nominee in 1999, has made its money on foreign models working in the U.S. illegally and under horrible conditions, several former models told Mother Jones magazine.
Alex Baer: Crazy Is As Crazy Does
The Big Crazy seems to have settled in for a while.
I'd hoped The Big Crazy might move on, spooked, when the six "Mars Mission" crew members were released from their habitat in Hawaii after a 365-day simulation. I thought having that much Actual Science back in the atmosphere again, all at once, might cause The Big Crazy to at least retreat a bit. Nope.
A check of the headlines tells me The Big Crazy has dug in for the long haul. Take your pick:
Obama commutes 111 more sentences to set new monthly record
As part of his "second chance" initiative, President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the prison sentences of more than 100 nonviolent drug offenders, setting a new monthly record.
Obama announced the commutations of 111 more individuals, bringing the August total to 325. Thirty-five of those who were granted relief Tuesday had been serving life sentences."
We must remember that these are individuals -- sons, daughters, parents, and in many cases, grandparents -- who have taken steps toward rehabilitation and who have earned their second chance," the White House said in a statement. "They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes."
City fights Trump over new D.C. hotel's tax bills
The city of Washington, D.C., is fighting Donald Trump's legal drive to cut his tax bills for the luxury hotel he's set to open in the Old Post Office Building next month.
Lawyers for the city are arguing that part of the suit Trump filed in June challenging assessments related to the new hotel was brought too late and the rest was brought too soon, according to a motion the city submitted Monday asking to throw the case out.
The Forgotten Lead Crisis in Northwest Indiana
How does a nation begin to assist the thousands of families being displaced and given a 90 day notice to vacate not just their homes, but their schools?
What is the plan from the Mayor, the Governor, FEMA, the EPA on how to reach and test those who lived in the Calumet Area of Northwest Indiana over the past three decades? Where is the medical community knowing the exposure to arsenic and lead especially on the young and those who are pregnant? Where is the plan? The tweet? The headline? The town hall?
Alex Baer: 2016, a Wonder Year
If it were possible, I'd have Perry Mason voted in as President, and be done with it -- even though the intellectual giants on the right would no doubt fear Perry's last name, and start up a whirlwind of vaprous Illuminati rumors.
With Perry, there would be no lack of adjectives describing his countless strengths, for any slogans and logos: Infallible, fair, energetic, driven, brilliant, supremely knowledgeable, not easily outwitted, modest, humane -- the litany could go on like that for days.
Perry, though. Not Raymond Burr, mind you, even if that fine actor were still with us, but Perry Mason, the character we saw portrayed on The One-Eyed Know-It-All which invaded American households so long ago.
ISIS second-in-command Muhammad al-Adnani killed in Syria drone strike
Islamic State's second in command Abu Mohammad al-Adnani has been killed in Syria. He was widely tipped to be the next leader of the terror group after repeatedly calling for attacks on the West.
Al-Adnani, who had a $5 million US government bounty on his head, was one of the last three alive of the 43 founders of ISIS, according to reports.
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