WASHINGTON President Barack Obama’s approval rating is creeping upward. The economy is growing. And a flurry of aggressive executive actions on domestic and foreign policy have energized the West Wing. Obama’s challenge now is to figure out how to prevent this burst of momentum from being more than just a blip on the radar of […]

ST. PAUL, MINN. In the war for young people’s hearts and minds, Mohamed Ahmed hopes to use cartoons to dissuade a generation raised on “The Simpsons” and “South Park” from taking up arms for the Islamic State group and other extremist causes. Ahmed, a convenience store manager from Minneapolis, has launched AverageMohamed.com, a website offering […]

PARIS Masked gunmen stormed the offices of a French satirical newspaper today, killing 11 people before escaping, police and a witness said. The weekly has previously drawn condemnation from Muslims. French President Francois Hollande called the slayings a terrorist attack and said that several other terror attacks have been thwarted “in recent weeks.” Xavier Castaing, […]

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle today spotted the tail of the AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 10 days after Flight 8501 went down with 162 people on board, an official said. Powerful currents and murky water continue to hinder the […]

FREEPORT Freeport Town Council Chairwoman Melanie Sachs announced Tuesday that she and her husband will be staying in Freeport. Sachs, also the director of Freeport Community Services, had previously announced that she would be leaving this year because her husband had taken a new job in Connecticut. She informed the town council that her family […]

The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Rob Montana at 504-8209. An article in Tuesday’s edition, “Council, school board elect leaders” gave the incorrect tally for the election of the town council chairwoman and vice […]