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The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a team to military installations in Kansas and South Carolina to investigate the possibility of relocating some Guantanamo Bay prisoners to U.S. soil, media outlets reported on Saturday. Fox News and CNN said the Pentagon on Friday notified the U.S. Congress that the team was already visiting the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and would then survey the naval brig at Charleston,
(Reuters) – A New Orleans Walmart store was evacuated on Saturday as a police SWAT team responded to an armed robbery, police said. “Armed robbery suspects believed to be inside,” the New Orleans Police Department said on its Twitter feed. Local media said there were no reports of shots being fired. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz and Letitia Stein)
(Reuters) – A small airplane crashed in a New Jersey suburb of New York on Saturday and fatalities were likely, local media reported.
It may have been 54 years since the American flag was last seen waving above the U.S. embassy in Havana, but mixed reactions to Friday’s flag-raising ceremony revealed that the scars of Cuba’s brutal past run deep — and won’t heal overnight.
American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials.
Winds in the West are helping stoke wildfires sweeping across the Northern Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, posing problems for firefighters trying to contain the flames fed by drought.
Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime alone for state troopers and corrections officers $22 million higher than last year.
Time to fulfill your civic duty, Mr. Trump. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, has been summoned for jury duty in New York City, where he lives. He is…
Only one club pro qualified to play the final two rounds of the PGA Championship. Brian Gaffney of Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, New York, made the cut. Michael O’Reilly, the head pro at Whistling Straits, is playing as a non-competing marker for Morgan Hoffman.
