Moscow (AFP) – Russia on Tuesday said it had “serious doubts” about the goal of a Dutch inquiry into the downing of a Malaysia Airline plane that was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year.
LONDON (AP) — George North will return to the wing for Wales, and Jamie Roberts will be a starter against South Africa in their Rugby World Cup quarterfinal after passing concussions tests.
One in three Portuguese believe three left-wing parties could form the country’s next government, but almost twice as many say they will fail to agree on a coalition, leaving the center-right in power, a poll indicated on Tuesday. An inconclusive election on Oct. 4 saw the ruling center-right coalition win the most votes but lose its parliamentary majority. The Socialists, Communists and Left Bloc have begun exploratory talks about forming
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A coalition of scholars across the West is urging the federal government to partner with the National Academy of Sciences to study the future of the Colorado River, including if climate change is leading to reduced stream flow.
It can be hard to find evidence that the two ex-senators are seriously running for president.
GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands (AP) — A missile launched from rebel-held Ukraine ripped the cockpit from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Dutch investigators reported Tuesday, adding that some passengers may have remained conscious for another minute or so as the airflow tore off their clothes and objects spinning through the cabin killed people in neighboring seats.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The private email server running in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s home basement when she was secretary of state was connected to the Internet in ways that made it more vulnerable to hackers while using software that could have been exploited, according to data and documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Defense attorneys and prosecutors clashed on Tuesday over statements by Baltimore police officers charged in the death of a black man who died from an injury in police custody, an incident that triggered protests and rioting. Defense attorneys contended in the Baltimore City Circuit Court pretrial hearing that statements officers made to internal police department investigators probing the death of Freddie Gray are not admissible since they had not been
A coalition of Muslim groups can pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accuses New York City police of conducting secret surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey without suspicion of criminal activity, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out the case, finding the plaintiffs had legal standing to assert claims that the counter-terrorism program
The American Civil Liberties Union sued two psychologists who devised the CIA’s Bush-era interrogation program on Tuesday, saying they encouraged the agency “to adopt torture as official policy” and made millions of dollars in the process. James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, two former military psychologists, “designed the torture methods and performed illegal human experimentation on CIA prisoners to test and refine the program,” the ACLU said in a statement. The
