Saudi Arabia advertised vacancies for eight executioners Tuesday after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole of 2014. It said that as well as beheadings, the successful candidates would be expected to carry out amputations ordered by the courts under the kingdom’s strict version of Islamic sharia law. Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. military officer says North Korea is “many years” away from being able to launch ballistic missiles from a submarine.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Zimbabwe cricket players said they weren’t defying their government by coming to Pakistan, because they didn’t need permission.
The candidates are split on one of the USA Patriot Act’s most controversial provisions.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge rejected the State Department’s proposal to release portions of 55,000 pages of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by next January, saying the agency must instead conduct a “rolling production” of the emails.
WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement authorities warned weeks ago of growing animosity between rival motorcycle gangs, a feud that erupted into violence this week with a deadly lunchtime shootout between the two groups in a crowded Waco restaurant.
(Reuters) – A conductor critically injured in last week’s deadly Philadelphia train derailment has filed a lawsuit against Amtrak, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Emilio Fonseca, 33, was taking a restroom break in the first car during his work shift when the passenger train went off the rails, killing eight people, attorney Bruce Nagel said at a news conference. Fonseca suffered a broken neck, back and both shoulders, and was
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will face about 20 of his victims at a hearing next month when he will be formally sentenced to die for the 2013 attack, a U.S. judge said on Tuesday. The same jury that found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race’s crowded finish line on
An ex-Congressional candidate from Tennessee faces up to five years in prison for plotting to burn down an upstate New York mosque and use an assault rifle against anyone who tried to stop him, according to court documents. Robert Doggart, who made a failed bid for Congress in 2014 as an independent with highly conservative views, pleaded guilty on April 29 to interstate communication of threats, according to a plea
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Railroad unions are urging Amtrak to put a second engineer in locomotives in the wake of a deadly derailment last week in Philadelphia.
