All posts tagged "Koreatimes"

  • college
    Should high school punishments go on college applications?

    (AP) — They are basic yes-no questions that ask whether a college applicant ever got into trouble in high school. Yet they’re anything but simple, say some who want run-ins at school or with the law taken...

    • Posted February 18, 2016
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  • Kim Jong-un and his administration deny accusations of human rights violations from the United Nations. (Yonhap/KCNA)
    Seoul’s spy service says North Korea is preparing terror attacks

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recently ordered preparations for launching “terror” attacks on South Koreans, a top Seoul official said Thursday, as worries about the North grow after its recent nuclear...

    • Posted February 18, 2016
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  • Palm trees along La Jolla Shores in San Diego are seen through a window covered with rain drops as the area braces for an approaching storm Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Heavy rain from a powerful Pacific storm swept through California on Tuesday, providing some relief from a three-year drought. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
    LA sees rain one day after record-setting heat

    LOS ANGELES (CNS) – One day after the end of a 12-day heat wave, a Pacific storm moved into the Southland today, bringing rainfall across much of the Southland and ushering in a damp afternoon commute. Forecasters said the...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • Cha Du-ri
    Seoul court dismisses Cha Du-ri’s divorce petition

    A Seoul court dismissed a divorce petition filed by retired South Korean soccer star Cha Du-ri on Thursday. The Seoul Family Court ruled against the 35-year-old seeking divorce from his wife of seven years, citing no evidence to...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • This Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016 photo shows the Supreme Court building at sunset in Washington.
    Intrusive interrogation awaits Supreme Court nominee

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Did you ever buy porn, sniff glue, have sex in junior high? Exactly how many times? White House lawyers are scouring a life’s worth of information about President Barack Obama’s potential picks for the...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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  • FILE - In this July 22, 2003, file photo, nurses evacuate a patient after a fire broke out on the third floor of the 434-bed the formerly named Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, with visibly blackened windows, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. The FBI says Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016, it is investigating a computer network extortion plot at the Los Angeles hospital. In the attacks known as "ransomware," hackers lock up an institution's computer network and demand payment to reopen them. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Wednesday that the agency is investigating such a plot at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
    LA hospital paid 17K ransom to hackers of its computer network

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles hospital paid a ransom in bitcoins equivalent to about $17,000 to hackers who infiltrated and disabled its computer network, the medical center’s chief executive said Wednesday. It was in the...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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    Fight over gunman’s locked iPhone could have big impact

    WASHINGTON (AP) — An extraordinary legal fight is brewing with major privacy implications for millions of cellphone users after a federal magistrate ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the gunman...

    • Posted February 17, 2016
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