(Reuters) – A gas line explosion at a New York high school on Thursday injured three construction workers, one critically, and badly damaged at least three floors of the building, authorities said. The explosion occurred at about 8 p.m. EDT at John F. Kennedy High School in New York’s Bronx borough while construction work was going on in a sixth-floor laboratory, a police spokesman said. New York City Mayor Bill
The results of the autopsy by the city’s medical examiner in the death of Mansur Ball-Bey are preliminary and an investigation of the incident continues, police said in a statement. The finding may escalate tensions that flared immediately after the shooting Wednesday, as protesters and family members of the slain teen questioned police accounts that Ball-Bey pointed a gun at them as he fled from a home where police were
U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into air bags on Honda Motor Co’s 2008 Accord sedans after 19 complaints of malfunctioning air bags including a front crash that resulted in injuries, federal officials said on Friday. The issue involves a module that controls deployment of the air bag. This appears to be a problem separate from that of combustible air bag inflators in Honda vehicles and has caused the
A Florida woman says former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle told her years ago about his interest in having sex with minors and that she went to authorities who told her to record the conversations. Rochelle …
The U.S. stock market is closing with its worst performance in 18 months, driven lower by another slump in Chinese shares and heavy selling by technical traders.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The police chief on Thursday unapologetically defended the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old who was killed by two white officers in a confrontation that drew protesters and unrest back to the streets.
FORT BENNING, Ga. (AP) — The first two women to pass the Army’s notoriously difficult Ranger School impressed male classmates left in their dust during road marches and proved their mettle as teammates by helping carry heavy weapons when others were too fatigued to lift another ounce.
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter announced Thursday that his cancer showed up in four small spots on his brain and he will immediately begin radiation treatment, saying he is “at ease with whatever comes.”
South Korea fired rounds at the North in response to a suspected projectile.
Donald Trump and some of his fellow Republicans are speaking out against birthright citizenship.
TWISP, Wash. (AP) — A “hellstorm” of flames apparently enveloped a vehicle that crashed while carrying firefighters battling a blaze in Washington state, killing three of them.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to allegations that he paid for sex acts with minors and received child pornography in a case that destroyed his career at the sandwich-shop chain and could send him to prison for more than a decade.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two days before he was due to leave prison, Oscar Pistorius’ early release was suddenly put on hold Wednesday by South Africa’s Department of Justice, which sent his case back to a parole board.
By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – Former Subway sandwich chain pitchman Jared Fogle pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to charges of child pornography and traveling for illicit paid sex with minors. Federal Judge Mark Dinsmore must now review a plea deal Fogle’s attorneys reached with prosecutors and decide whether to accept it. Subway fired Fogle on Tuesday when reports of the plea agreement emerged.
The girl, who is 16 years old and was 15 at the time of the alleged attack, testified that Owen Labrie quickly became rough when he brought her to the top floor of a building at St. Paul’s School. Asked by county prosecutor Catherine Ruffle if she had asked Labrie to stop, she broke down in tears.
DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal agent’s fatal shooting of a Detroit man who was wanted as a fugitive during a home raid in April was supported by the evidence and no charges are merited in the case, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said on Wednesday.
It’s the first drug approved by the FDA aimed at increasing sexual desire in women.
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.
BEIRUT/DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Islamic State militants published photos on Tuesday purporting to show the destruction of a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an act the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO has called a war crime. Syria’s antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters the images did appear to show the destruction of the ancient Baal Shamin temple and correlated with descriptions given by residents of the explosion detonated
By Ju-min Park and Tony Munroe SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea agreed early on Tuesday to end a military standoff that sparked an exchange of artillery fire and had ratcheted up tension on one of the world’s most heavily-fortified borders. Under an accord reached in the early hours, following more than two days of talks, North Korea expressed regret over the recent wounding of South Korean soldiers in
Iran is not considering a prisoner exchange with the United States, a senior official said on Tuesday, ahead of an expected verdict for an Iranian-American journalist held in Tehran for more than a year. “The reports on the possible exchange of prisoners are not true and it is not on the table,” Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Qashqavi was quoted as saying by Iran’s ISNA news agency. There has been speculation
The Swedish author of the highly-anticipated sequel to the Millennium crime trilogy said Tuesday he supported a Danish newspaper boycott of him over his publisher’s refusal to let literary critics read the book in advance. The boycott concerns David Lagercrantz’s book “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” — the fourth instalment of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling Millennium trilogy which is due for release in 25 countries on Thursday and in the
Zimbabwe’s veteran President Robert Mugabe was booed and heckled by opposition lawmakers over the deteriorating economy as he gave his state of the nation address to parliament Tuesday. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) lawmakers questioned his economic policies, jeering as the 91-year-old delivered a policy speech which lasted less than half an hour. When Mugabe — who has been in power since Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain in 1980 — outlined
VEJER DE LA FRONTERA, Spain (AP) — Former champion Alejandro Valverde won the fourth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Tuesday, while Colombian Esteban Chaves protected the leader’s jersey for a third day.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A Guatemalan court says former dictator Efrain Rios Montt can stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity — but can’t be sentenced because the 89-year-old suffers from dementia.
By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye demanded on Monday that North Korea apologize over recent landmine blasts, even as the bitter rivals held marathon talks to defuse tensions that have brought the peninsula back to the brink of armed conflict. Park said anti-North propaganda broadcasts would continue unless Pyongyang took responsibility for landmine explosions early this month that wounded two South Korean
By Guy Faulconbridge TEHRAN (Reuters) – International sanctions on Iran could start to be lifted as early as spring next year, Britain’s foreign minister said on Monday, as Tehran and the West rebuild their ties and potentially open up billions of dollars of trade deals. Six world powers agreed in July to lift sanctions in return for Iran accepting long-term curbs on a nuclear program that the West suspected was
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday the United States has been sending “signals” that it wants to start mending ties with Moscow, badly strained over the past year and a half by the conflict in Ukraine. The United States and European Union slapped economic sanctions on Russia last year after its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and support for a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande on Monday awarded France’s highest honor, the Legion d’honneur, to three U.S. citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting suspected Islamist militant on a train last week. You are the incarnation of that,” Hollande told the four men. The suspect’s lawyer said on Sunday the man named by intelligence sources as Ayoub el Khazzani, 26, of Morocco,
By Michele Kambas and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – A radical leftist opposed to Greece’s new bailout deal won a presidential mandate on Monday to try to form a new government but immediately admitted he would fail, pointing toward a snap election. Panagiotis Lafazanis, whose anti-bailout Popular Unity party was founded only on Friday, got three days to pull together a coalition after the main conservative opposition failed to do
By Nick Tattersall ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey and the United States will soon launch “comprehensive” air operations to flush Islamic State fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters on Monday. Detailed talks between Washington and Ankara on the plans were completed on Sunday, and regional allies including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan, as well as Britain and France may also take part,
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is picking up momentum to survive fierce opposition from Republican and Israeli opponents with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on board.
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas admitted Monday to killing a black community leader in the country’s southwest in early August, a crime they had strongly condemned. After initially rejecting any link to the August 3 shooting of Genaro Garcia, an activist for those forced to flee their homes by Colombia’s five-decade guerrilla war, leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) admitted one of their units killed him. “After carrying out
By Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) – At least two people may have committed suicide following the hacking of the Ashley Madison cheating website that exposed the information of clients, Toronto police said on Monday. Avid Life Media Inc, the parent company of the website, is offering a C$500,000 ($379,132) reward to catch the hackers, police said. In addition to the exposure of the Ashley Madison accounts of as many as
Three young American friends on a European vacation and a British businessman who overpowered a heavily-armed man in a crowded, high-speed train to Paris were awarded France’s highest honour on Monday. Hailed as “heroes”, the foursome were handed the prestigious Legion d’Honneur by French President Francois Hollande, who told them the whole world “admires their courage and cool composure”. Another Frenchman — the first to come into contact with gunman
By Marine Pennetier and Catherine MacDonald PARIS/ALGECIRAS, Spain (Reuters) – A gunman who attacked passengers on a high-speed train in France two days ago is “dumbfounded” at having been taken for an Islamist militant and says he only intended to rob people on board because he was hungry, his lawyer said on Sunday. As details emerged of the gunman’s early adult life in Spain, lawyer Sophie David said her client
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday it was too early to talk of reopening the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, as Britain restored its diplomatic mission four years after protesters ransacked the British ambassador’s residence. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attended a ceremony at the opulent 19th century building in the Iranian capital where attackers in 2011 burned Britain’s national flag, slashed portraits of British monarchs and stole goods. Iran’s Foreign
By Chine Labbé and Sarah White PARIS/MADRID, France (Reuters) – A gunman overpowered by passengers on a train in France is known to European authorities as a suspected Islamist militant if the identity he has given is correct, France’s interior minister said on Saturday. Two people were wounded in the struggle to subdue the Kalashnikov-toting attacker aboard the high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday. Two U.S. servicemen, one
