US HEADLINES
Five people including a number of young Irish citizens were killed and eight injured when an apartment balcony collapsed early on Tuesday in the Californian city of Berkeley, police and Ireland’s foreign affairs minister said. The survivors’ injuries were “very serious and potentially life-threatening,” Berkeley Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Coats said. Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan confirmed that an unknown number of young Irish citizens were among the dead and
Appearing before a raucous rally in front of thousands of supporters here Monday afternoon, former Florida governor Jeb Bush showed he is a force to be reckoned with in the presidential election as he officially launched his campaign.
The public may never know the full national security repercussions of a pair of catastrophic hacking attacks on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that were disclosed earlier this month.
The civil rights leader, whose racial identity made headlines last week, made the announcement in an open letter…
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The leader of the NAACP in Spokane is facing calls to step aside after her parents said the 37-year-old activist falsely portrayed herself as black for years.
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — A woman charged with helping two convicted murderers escape from a maximum-security prison in far northern New York made another court appearance Monday as the manhunt for the men hit its 10th day.
A female prison employee accused of helping two convicted killers stage a brazen escape appeared in court in upstate New York on Monday, under heavy protection and clad in apparent body armor and prison stripes. Joyce Mitchell, 51, is charged with providing chisels and hacksaws to Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. The intense manhunt is costing about $1 million per
Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of two U.S. bishops 10 days after a local prosecutor filed criminal charges against their diocese for failing to protect children from a sexually abusive priest. Wehmeyer, who has been dismissed from the priesthood, is serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2012 to criminal sexual conduct with two minors and possessing child pornography. Minnesota prosecutor John Choi brought the charges
The high court left in place an appeals court ruling that struck down the 2011 law as unconstitutional because it forced doctors to voice the state’s message discouraging abortion. Under the law, passed by North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature, physicians must perform an ultrasound, display the sonogram and describe the fetus to women seeking abortions.
