DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria on Tuesday accused U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura of bias and said his recent statements condemning deadly government airstrikes on a market that killed some 100 people show he lacks objectivity.
BANGKOK (AP) — In the grainy security video, a man in a yellow shirt sits on a bench at the crowded Erawan Shrine, removes a backpack he is wearing, and leaves it behind when he walks away.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A forensic examination of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private computer server could unearth more details than what she put in her emails. It could answer lingering questions about the security of her system, who had access to it and whether outsiders tried to crack its contents.
Two women have made military history after becoming the first female soldiers to pass the U.S. Army’s grueling Ranger Course, the Army said on Monday. In April, 19 women and 381 men began the first Army Ranger school that included women. The course, based at Fort Benning, Georgia, includes training in woodlands, mountainous terrain and Florida swampland.
Detroit officials on Tuesday will outline plans for outfitting the city’s police officers and squad cars with body and dashboard cameras, making the city the latest in the United States to enact reforms supporters say protect citizens and officers from bogus claims. Mayor Mike Duggan, who pledged earlier in 2015 that Detroit would be a leader in requiring officers to wear body cameras, and Police Chief James Craig, are scheduled
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is scheduled to meet with federal and state transportation officials on Tuesday to address the lengthy train delays that have frustrated commuters in recent weeks. Electrical problems in the rail tunnels linking New Jersey and New York City under the Hudson River caused delays that doubled and tripled the work commute of tens of thousands of people this summer, most recently on Monday. In testimony
George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer acquitted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, is raffling off a painting he made of a Confederate flag to raise money for a Florida gunshop owner who declared his store a Muslim-free zone. Zimmerman, who gained notoriety during his trial for killing Trayvon Martin in 2012, is selling the painting on a website for the Tampa-area store, Florida Gun Supply, owned
