Ben Carson recalls his encounter with a gunman
John Boehner stuck in limbo as speaker after Kevin McCarthy withdraws bid
John Boehner stuck in limbo as speaker after Kevin McCarthy withdraws bid
Hillary Clinton’s lack of Wall Street backers
Hillary Clinton’s lack of Wall Street backers
One shot dead, three wounded in US university 'confrontation'
A student armed with a handgun killed another student in a “confrontation” at an Arizona university early Friday that also left three others with multiple gunshot wounds, police said, in the latest shooting at a US college. The deadly incident at Northern Arizona University (NAU) came hours before President Barack Obama was to meet families of victims of last week’s shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that left
One shot dead, three wounded in US university 'confrontation'
A student armed with a handgun killed another student in a “confrontation” at an Arizona university early Friday that also left three others with multiple gunshot wounds, police said, in the latest shooting at a US college. The deadly incident at Northern Arizona University (NAU) came hours before President Barack Obama was to meet families of victims of last week’s shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that left
Hero in French train attack reportedly stabbed
CBS News is reporting that Spencer Stone, the U.S. airman who helped foil a terror attack on a French train this summer, was stabbed Wednesday night.
Guns, Congress and Murphy's Law
Rep. Tim Murphy’s sensible bill on mental health and guns is unlikely to become law.
Rupert Murdoch apologizes for suggesting Ben Carson would be a 'real black president'
Clinton server hack attempts came from China, Korea, Germany
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server, containing an electronic inventory of some 55,000 pages of emails from her stint as secretary of state, was repeatedly hit by attempted cyberattacks originating in China, South Korea and Germany in 2014, according to a congressional document obtained by The Associated Press.
Rupert Murdoch suggests Obama isn't 'real black president'
The media mogul makes the comment while comparing GOP candidate Ben Carson to the president.
FBI says it 'disrupted' dozens of potential militants
FBI counterterrorism investigators followed “dozens and dozens” of potential militants around the United States full time during the summer and “disrupted” many of them, FBI Director James Comey told a congressional committee on Thursday. Comey, who testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs along with Nick Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said U.S. investigators are aware of dozens of U.S.-based Islamic militant suspects who
France train attack hero Stone stabbed in California, Air Force says
The attack took place sometime between midnight and 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, who declined to release more information. Local television station KCRA reported that Stone, during a fight in the street near several popular bars in the mid-town section of Sacramento, was stabbed multiple times in the torso.
Indiana University suspends fraternity over suspected sexual hazing
The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity has been ordered to cease and desist all activities as the university investigates the case, the school said. “Alpha Tau Omega is alleged to have violated the student code of conduct – specifically for hazing activities which perpetuate sexual misconduct,” the school said in a letter to the fraternity. The national fraternity, which has 250 active and inactive chapters with more than 6,500 undergraduate members,
Search ends for survivors of hurricane-hit U.S. cargo ship
By Susan Cooper Eastman JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday ended its search for missing crew of the cargo ship El Faro that sank off the Bahamas last week after sailing into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. An exhaustive air and sea search for possible survivors was called off at sunset, six days after communication was lost with the ship and the 33 people aboard, the
Clinton's Wall Street reform plan has tax on high-frequency trading
By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose a tax on high-frequency trading, her campaign said late Wednesday. The tax would target securities transactions with excessive levels of order cancellations, which destabilize the markets, a campaign aide said. “The growth of high-frequency trading has unnecessarily burdened our markets and enabled unfair and abusive trading strategies,” the aide said.
U.S. investigators begin probe into freighter's sinking
Safety officials began their investigation on Tuesday into the sinking of a U.S. cargo ship off the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin, with deep seas likely to hamper attempts to find the ship and 32 missing crew members. As the search for the El Faro extended through a sixth fruitless day, National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said her team would look at everything from marine logs to why
Patrick Kennedy opens up about family’s addiction secrets
The son of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy is going where no Kennedy has gone before.
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Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them
By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group’s reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and hospital sources said. Iraq said on Sunday its air force had hit the meeting and had also struck a convoy that was carrying Baghdadi
Turkey sees Islamic State hand in bombing, vows election will go on
By Orhan Coskun and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey is targeting Islamic State in investigations of a double suicide bombing in Ankara that killed up to 128 people, officials said on Sunday, while opponents of President Tayyip Erdogan blamed him for the worst such attack in Turkish history. Government officials made clear that despite alarm over the attack on a rally of pro-Kurdish activists and civic groups, there would
Syrian army advances with help of intensified Russian air strikes
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Suleiman Al-Khalidi SOCHI, Russia/AMMAN (Reuters) – Russian war planes pounded Syrian rebels unaffiliated with Islamic State on Sunday, insurgents said, helping Moscow’s ally Bashar al-Assad reclaim territory and dealing a fresh setback to the strategy of Washington and its allies. The area is held by a rebel alliance that excludes Islamic State fighters.
Israeli air strike kills two in Gaza; Israeli police say stop suspected car bomb
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian mother and daughter in Gaza on Sunday and police said a Palestinian detonated an explosive in her car on a road to Jerusalem, injuring herself and a policeman. Palestinians disputed the police account, saying an electrical fire in the vehicle was mistaken for a bomb blast. Four Israelis and 23 Palestinians have died in
Verdict issued in Rezaian case, Iranian judiciary says
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran’s judiciary said on Sunday that a ruling had been issued in the espionage trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, but the newspaper said Tehran was working a political angle by not revealing details of the verdict. The July 2014 arrest of California-born Rezaian, the Post’s Tehran bureau chief, has been a sensitive issue for Washington and Iran, and Sunday’s announcement did little to resolve it.
South Africa plans to leave International Criminal Court
South Africa plans to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), a deputy minister said on Sunday, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan’s president earlier this year. The ICC has “lost its direction” and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) wants to withdraw South Africa after following certain processes, Obed Bapela, deputy minister in the Presidency, told reporters after a ruling party policy meeting.
Iran's parliament approves outline of bill on nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s parliament on Sunday approved an outline of a bill that would allow the government to implement a historic nuclear deal reached with world powers, the official IRNA news agency said.
Partial results: Right-wing party fails to win Vienna vote
VIENNA (AP) — A right-wing populist party campaigning on Austrian concerns over mass migration has scored gains in elections for Vienna’s city hall but appears to have fallen short of winning the vote, according to preliminary results.
Norris tames high winds to win in Taipei
Taipei (AFP) – Shaun Norris overcame swirling winds with a four-under-par 68 to win the weather-shortened Yeangder Tournament Players Championship by two shots on Sunday, pipping overnight leader Miguel Tabuena.
Putin meets Saudi defense minister amid differences over Syria
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saudi Arabia’s defense minister on Sunday, in Moscow’s biggest attempt so far to reach out to enemies of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad since Russia joined the conflict with air strikes. Putin met Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman, a son of the Saudi king, on the sidelines of a Formula One race on Sunday, nearly two weeks since Moscow began bombing enemies of Assad, including
Twin bombs kill 86 at pro-Kurdish rally in Turkish capital
By Ece Toksabay and Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) – At least 86 people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists outside Ankara’s main train station on Saturday, weeks ahead of an election, in the deadliest attack of its kind on Turkish soil. Bodies covered by flags and banners, including those of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), lay scattered on the
Russia steps up air strikes against Assad opponents in Syria
By Sylvia Westall and Jason Bush BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Saturday it had stepped up its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, while local observers said several of the air strikes had hit areas in western Syria where the hardline group has little presence. Russia, a top ally of President Bashar al-Assad, started bombing in Syria on Sept. 30 saying it was targeting Islamic State and
Hundreds of thousands protest in Berlin against EU-U.S. trade deal
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Berlin on Saturday in protest against a planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they say is anti-democratic and will lower food safety, labor and environmental standards. Organizers – an alliance of environmental groups, charities and opposition parties – said 250,000 people were taking part in the rally against free trade deals with both the United States and Canada,
Israeli forces shoot dead five Palestinians as violence rages on
By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli security forces on Saturday shot dead two Palestinians aged 12 and 15 in protests along Gaza’s border fence, Palestinian medics said, and Israeli police said they killed three Palestinian assailants in separate violence in Jerusalem. Eleven days of bloodshed in which four Israelis and 19 Palestinians have been killed in Jerusalem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Gaza and in Israeli cities
Isolated North Korea says ready for war with U.S. as it marks anniversary
By James Pearson PYONGYANG (Reuters) – Isolated North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country was ready to fight any war waged by the United States. Thousands of troops stood at attention under a blue autumn sky in Pyongyang’s main Kim Il Sung Square, named after Kim Jong Un’s grandfather
Many wounded in suspected Boko Haram attack in Chad
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Many people were wounded on Saturday in a triple bombing targeting a market and refugee camp in the village of Baga Sola in Chad that security sources blamed on Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group. “We are still collecting the victims. We don’t have a figure yet (for the number of wounded),” a health worker at a hospital in the border town on Lake Chad told Reuters. (Reporting
The Latest: US condemns deadly bombing, stands by Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Developments relating to Saturday’s deadly bombing of a peace rally in the Turkish capital of Ankara. All times local.
Italian tennis players have life bans lifted in fixing case
ROME (AP) — Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace have had their life bans for match-fixing lifted by the Italian tennis federation.
Belarusian Nobel winner says Lukashenko to be re-elected
BERLIN (AP) — Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author who just won the Nobel Prize for literature, said Saturday there is no doubt Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected president this weekend because the process is entirely under his control.
Syria regime advances with Russian air support
Syrian government forces captured a village from rebels in the central province of Hama Saturday as they pressed a ground operation backed by Russian air support. In the northern Aleppo province, rebels battled to reverse an advance by the Islamic State group that brought the jihadists to within a few kilometres (miles) of Syria’s second city. In Hama, regime forces seized Atshan village from opposition fighters, including Islamists and Al-Qaeda
