In New York City to host “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, Reese Witherspoon sat down with Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric on Friday and reflected on the last time she hosted the show — two weeks after 9/11.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday that the Justice Department will launch a civil rights investigation into the Baltimore Police Department.
Nine months after American bombs first rocked Islamic State targets in the Middle East, a small group of U.S. lawmakers is making what may be their last…
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday announced a federal civil rights investigation into the legality of the Baltimore police department’s use of force and whether there are patterns of discriminatory policing. The investigation is being launched at the request of Baltimore’s mayor in response to the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man injured in police custody, and the outrage it sparked in Maryland’s largest city. Though the Justice
The United States is concerned about reports that China has interfered with Internet content hosted outside of China, the State Department said on Friday. “We are concerned by reports that China has used a new cybercapability to interfere with the ability of worldwide Internet users to access content hosted outside of China,” State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said. He said the United States has asked Chinese authorities to investigate the
By Sebastien Malo SEAFORD, N.Y. (Reuters) – Thousands of police from around the United States were expected at Friday’s funeral for a 25-year-old New York City officer who was shot in the head while on patrol, making him the fifth member of the NYPD to die in the line of duty since December. The funeral for the New York Police Department’s Brian Moore was slated to begin at 11 a.m.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is urging President Barack Obama to cancel a planned visit to Nike’s headquarters over the low wages it pays foreign workers
The Conservative Party surged to a commanding lead in Britain’s parliamentary election.
Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives won a stunning victory in Britain’s election on Friday, which cut short the careers of his top three rivals and put the country’s European Union future in doubt. Widespread predictions of a close contest with the opposition Labour party turned out to be wide of the mark, as Cameron won 331 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons and a new term as head of
The legislation gives Congress the right to potentially reject any nuclear deal with Tehran.
The bulk collection of Americans’ phone records by the government exceeds what Congress has allowed, a federal appeals court said Thursday as it asked Congress to step in and decide how best to balance …
At least 12 people were injured, but no deaths were immediately reported.
A Moroccan government-owned firm is paying $1M to host the Clinton Global Initiative.
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – One person was killed and about a dozen others injured by tornadoes that touched down near Oklahoma City, part of a storm system that flattened homes and caused flooding in several Great Plains states, officials said on Thursday. One woman who sought safety in her home’s storm shelter died when it flooded in Wednesday night’s storms, Oklahoma police said, according to local media
Jurors deciding the fate of convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will hear from more witnesses on Thursday picked by defense attorneys pressing their case the 21-year old should be spared execution because he was influenced by his radicalized older brother. Tsarnaev was convicted last month of joining his now-deceased brother Tamerlan in bombing the race’s crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, killing 3 people and injuring 264, many of
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. spying program that collects data about millions of Americans’ phone calls is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, adding pressure on lawmakers to decide quickly whether to end or replace the program, which was intended to help fight terrorism. While stopping short of declaring the program unconstitutional, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Congress did
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 1,600 IRS workers were found to have willfully evaded taxes over a 10-year period, including some who were responsible for enforcing the nation’s tax laws, a government watchdog said Wednesday.
DUBLIN (AP) — A former Irish Republican Army commander linked to one of the outlawed group’s most notorious killings was shot to death at close range Tuesday morning on a street near his home in Belfast, residents and police said.
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and ice for signs of dozens more missing, officials said on Monday. “Local volunteers and police personnel are digging through six-feet (deep) snow with shovels looking for more bodies,” said Gautam Rimal, assistant chief
By Amena Bakr and Jibran Ahmad AL-KHOR, Qatar/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Representatives at preliminary talks aiming to end Afghanistan’s long war have agreed that Taliban insurgents should open a political office for negotiations, but disagreement over foreign troops still clouds the prospects for a ceasefire. A statement issued on Monday outlined the agreements reached by at least 40 delegates to a “non-official meeting” bringing together Taliban representatives, Afghan government figures
By Mohammed Mukhashef ADEN (Reuters) – Local fighters battling the rebel Houthi militia in Yemen’s port of Aden stormed areas around the airport on Sunday in an operation supervised by the Saudi-led coalition, which also provided air support, the group’s spokesman said. “Special forces from the southern fighters have been prepared and trained for an operation to attack Aden airport,” said Ali al-Ahmadi, spokesman for the Southern Popular Resistance. Ahmadi
By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – Nearly 4,100 migrants were rescued from boats near the coast of Libya on Saturday and Sunday and rescue operations continued as people smugglers took advantage of calm seas, Italy’s coast guard and navy said. All of those rescued were being brought to Italian shores, with some already arriving at Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, and Trapani, Sicily. The smugglers make an average of 80,000 euros
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Three people were pulled out alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, an official said on Sunday, but rescuers have found about 50 bodies on a popular trekking route that was hit by an avalanche. A home ministry official said police and army rescued three people from the rubble in the district of Sindhupalchowk, northeast of the capital
By Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a girl on Saturday, the couple’s second child and a sister to one-year-old Prince George. The royal family’s newest member was born at 8:34 a.m. (3.34 a.m. ET), some 2-1/2 hours after Kate Middleton was admitted in the early stages of labor to St Mary’s Hospital, West London, the couple’s Kensington Palace
By Frank Jack Daniel and Andrew R.C. Marshall KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Bureaucracy at Kathmandu airport was holding up vital relief supplies for survivors of the earthquake in Nepal on Saturday as the death toll from the disaster passed 6,600. U.N. Resident Representative Jamie McGoldrick said the government must loosen customs restrictions to deal with the increasing flow of relief material and avoid bottlenecks. Material was piling up at the Kathmandu
By Rupam Jain Nair and Sanjeev Miglani KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali and foreign officials were struggling on Friday to locate thousands of people still missing after last week’s massive earthquake, as food and other relief supplies began to trickle through to those stranded in remote parts of the country. Up to 1,000 Europeans are among the missing, mostly around popular trekking routes, the head of the European Union (EU) delegation
By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of stone-throwing May Day protesters on Friday, after they defied a ban and tried to march on Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Riot police unleashed water cannon and chased protesters down side streets in the nearby Besiktas neighborhood and also they also fired off canisters of tear gas, a Reuters reporter said. Istanbul
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck a residential district of the Yemeni capital Sanaa overnight, killing eight to 10 civilians, residents said on Friday. The Saba state news agency, controlled by the Houthi movement in charge of Sanaa, put the death toll in the Sawan district at 20 and said more than 50 people had been wounded. Saudi Arabia believes the Houthi group is a proxy its regional rival Iran,
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist rebels and the Syrian army fought fierce battles in Latakia province overnight close to President Bashar al-Assad’s ancestral home, the army and rebels said, after weeks of insurgent gains in the country’s northwest. Rebels seeking to topple Assad have in the past sought to bring their four-year-long insurgency close to coastal areas in government-held Latakia, heartland of Assad’s minority Alawite community. An army source told state
By Andreas Rinke LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – The German government needs to quickly clear up accusations that its BND foreign intelligence agency helped the United States spy on government officials and firms in Europe such as Airbus Group, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday. The reports in Der Spiegel magazine that the BND helped the U.S. National Security Agency over 10 years embarrassed Germany and upset many in a country
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led military coalition launched 18 air strikes in Syria and Iraq against Islamic State since early Thursday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement. The seven strikes targeting the militants in Iraq struck five units of Islamic State fighters and destroyed several fighting positions and other targets near the cities of Bayji, Falluja, Mosul, Ramadi and Tal Afar, the task force said on Friday.
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Andy Murray’s match against Lukas Rosol and the rest of the Munich Open quarter-finals will take place on Saturday after wet weather washed out Friday’s schedule.
Togo’s opposition said Friday it would not go to court to challenge incumbent Faure Gnassingbe’s victory in a weekend presidential vote it claimed was rigged. “We have not taken legal action, as we believe the Constitutional Court serves” the Togolese government, opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre’s spokesman told AFP. “If the Constitutional Court did its work, it would have automatically taken action,” Eric Dupuy said. The results, which Fabre branded “fraudulent”
By Rafiq Sharzad KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan delegation is heading to Qatar for “open discussions” with representatives of Taliban insurgents over the next few days aimed at ending Afghanistan’s long war, an official said on Friday. The meeting is intended as a step toward opening formal talks to ending the war, but it was not clear on Friday whether it had been approved by the Taliban’s supreme leader, who
Italian police clashed with protesters at the Milan Expo on Friday, firing tear gas at the masked demonstrators who had pelted officers with stones. The protesters also set several vehicles and rubbish bins on fire and set off firecrackers and smoke bombs on the opening day of the six-month food-themed Expo. The violence had cut the “No Expo” march in two. Critics of the Expo say the event is a
By Mohammed Mukhashaf and Amena Bakr ADEN/DOHA (Reuters) – Saudi-led air strikes hit five Yemeni provinces as fighting raged in the southern city of Aden on Wednesday, and sources in the region said the kingdom was training armed tribesmen to fight the Iran-allied Houthi group. Houthi rebels’ tanks and snipers killed at least 12 civilians overnight in Yemen’s Aden as they advanced toward the centre of the city, residents said,
By Mohammed Mukhashaf and Amena Bakr ADEN/DOHA (Reuters) – Saudi-led air strikes hit five Yemeni provinces as fighting raged in the southern city of Aden on Wednesday, and sources in the region said the kingdom was training armed tribesmen to fight the Iran-allied Houthi group. Houthi rebels’ tanks and snipers killed at least 12 civilians overnight in Yemen’s Aden as they advanced toward the centre of the city, residents said,
