JIANLI, China (AP) — Chinese authorities deployed scores more divers and a large crane as they escalated efforts Wednesday to recover more than 410 people believed to be trapped inside an overturned river cruise ship. The capsizing late Monday of the multi-decked Eastern Star in the Yangtze River is on track to become the country’s deadliest maritime disaster in seven decades. Chinese authorities have launched a high-profile response while tightly
A new CNN/ORC poll finds a majority view the former president favorably for the first time in more than a decade.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, generally seen as a master congressional deal-maker, walked into a legislative dead end on domestic surveillance that left some of his friends bewildered.
The suspect was under surveillance because he had made threats against police, sources say.
ZURICH (AP) — A day after announcing his decision to resign, Sepp Blatter was back at work at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday as the worst corruption crisis in the governing body’s 111-year history continued to unfold.
A Massachusetts man arrested late Tuesday as part of a terrorism investigation will face charges in federal court on Wednesday, the day after another suspect in the probe was shot dead, according to prosecutors. Police arrested the man, named as David Wright by a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz, in Everett, outside Boston. Officers working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force had earlier shot and killed Usaamah
By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – One of the longest-serving inmates on Texas’ busy death row was set to be executed on Wednesday, more than three decades after being convicted of fatally shooting four people in 1983. Lawyers for Lester Bower filed a last-minute appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court last week that faults the sentencing, seeking to prevent the execution by lethal injection scheduled for 6 p.m. at
(Reuters) – Apple Inc said it is recalling some Beats Pill XL portable wireless speakers due to a fire hazard caused by overheating batteries. The iPhone maker will recall about 222,000 speakers in the United States and about 11,000 in Canada, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said on Wednesday. Apple has received eight reports of overheating speakers, the CPSC said in a statement.
Buzz Bissinger and stylist Jessica Diehl share the story behind Caitlyn Jenner’s debut.
The bill revives and remakes a disputed post-9/11 surveillance program two days after letting it temporarily expire.