ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Protests turned violent for a second night near St. Louis following the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of a black man, as a small group of demonstrators refused to disperse, breaking windows at...
LONDON (AP) -- The British government lowered the country's official terrorist threat level Sunday after a second man was arrested in connection with the attack on a London subway train where a bomb partially exploded. The downgrading of the...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP):British police made a "significant" arrest yesterday in the manhunt for suspects a day after the London subway was hit by a partially exploded bomb and launched a heavily armed search of a home southwest of London.The fast-moving enquiry...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
MIAMI (AP):The hurricane season is roaring on as Tropical Storm Lee forms far from land, Jose threatens the US East Coast and Norma moves closer to Mexico.Norma is expected to pass near the resort-studded southern tip of Mexico's Baja California...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
KUALA LUMPUR (AP):Malaysian police said yesterday they have arrested seven boys suspected of intentionally starting a fire at an Islamic boarding school that killed 23 people because students there had teased them.Kuala Lumpur police chief Amar...
Published:Saturday | September 16, 2017 | 12:00 AM
BARCELONA, Spain (AP):More than 700 mayors from Catalonia met yesterday in Barcelona in a show of strength amid pressure from Spain's central government not to hold an independence referendum for the north-eastern region.Political tensions in Spain...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.6 jolted St Lucia today, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damages. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies (UWI) said that the quake occurred at 6:...
LONDON (AP): Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain's official threat level from terrorism remains at "severe", meaning an attack is highly likely, and has not been raised in the wake of the London subway bombing. After chairing...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): The fate of 800,000 young immigrants hung in the balance yesterday as top lawmakers, White House officials and President Donald Trump himself squabbled over whether an agreement had been struck to protect them -- and...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD, Florida (AP):Florida seniors shuffled out of stifling assisted-living centers yesterday while caregivers fought a lack of air conditioning with Popsicles and cool compresses...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
IMMOKALEE, Florida (AP):Larry and Elida Dimas didn't have much to begin with, and Hurricane Irma left them with even less.The storm peeled open the roof of the old mobile home where they live with...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Nebraska (AP):The top commander of United States nuclear forces said he assumes the September 3 nuclear test by North Korea was a hydrogen bomb.Air Force Gen John E. Hyten,...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
COX'S BAZAR (AP):Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border yesterday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh.The crisis...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was "fairly close" to a deal with congressional leaders to preserve protections for young immigrants living illegally in America but he's insisting on "massive border...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP):An Ohio man convicted of killing two people in back-to-back robberies in suburban Cleveland in 1992 was executed yesterday as family members of his victims looked on.Gary Otte...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP):Eight patients at a sweltering Hollywood nursing home died in Hurricane Irma's aftermath, authorities said yesterday, as people confronted a multitude of new hazards in the storm's wake, including tree-clearing accidents and...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
NORTH HAVERHILL,New Hampshire (AP):The husband of a woman fatally shot in a hospital said he saw his stepson point a gun at her and fire several shots before walking away without saying a word,...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
LIMA, Peru (AP): This was one of those rare Olympic moments where everyone walked away a winner. Paris for 2024. Los Angeles for 2028. And the International Olympic Committee for transforming an unruly bidding process to lock down its future by...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP): Six patients at a sweltering Hollywood nursing home died in Hurricane Irma's aftermath, authorities said Wednesday, as people confronted a multitude of new hazards in the storm's wake, including oppressive heat, brush-...
WASHINGTON (AP):The White House is accusing former campaign rival Hillary Clinton of "propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks".White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders...
MIAMI (AP):Florida is cleaning up from one of the most destructive storms in its history, Hurricane Irma. At least 12 deaths in the US have been blamed on the storm. Authorities have sent an aircraft carrier and other navy ships to aid search-and-...
Florida (AP):Big airports in Florida remained closed yesterday, and flight cancellations were spreading north along the track of Tropical Storm Irma.American Airlines said it won't resume flights in Miami until at least today, revising its plans to...
TECATE, California (AP):A photo of a giant toddler stands in Mexico and peers over a steel wall dividing the country from the United States.The boy appears to grip the barrier with his fingers,...
NEW YORK (AP):Americans commemorated 9/11 yesterday with tear-streaked tributes, a presidential warning to terrorists and appeals from victims' relatives for unity and hope 16 years after the...
The family of an eight-year-old biracial boy in New Hampshire says teenagers taunted him with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck.The boy's grandmother...
