Tour guide Zhang Hui “had 30 seconds to grab a life jacket,” before the ship overturned in China’s mighty Yangtze river during a storm Monday night, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. The 43-year old and a colleague “grabbed everything they could reach and kept their heads above water” as the ship sank, Xinhua said. More than a dozen people have been been saved from the Dongfangzhixing, or “Eastern Star,”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investigators probing the May 12 derailment of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia do not yet know whether an electronic warning device was operating or activated before the disaster, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart told the U.S. Congress on Tuesday. In prepared testimony to a House of Representatives committee, Hart also said several U.S. rail carriers will not meet an end-of-year deadline for installing a more
By Elizabeth Barber and Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – A friend of the Boston Marathon bomber, who admitted to obstructing the investigation of the deadly 2013 blast, apologized on Tuesday for his actions at a hearing where he was sentenced to six years in prison. Kazakhstan national Dias Kadyrbayev was one of three friends of bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to face federal charges for removing a backpack containing fireworks from Tsarnaev’s
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced himself to the nation here Monday by capitalizing on one of his most valuable political assets: his powerful up-from-nothing personal story.
The jihadist group has handed out leaflets in their stronghold of Mosul in recent weeks announcing that full beards become compulsory on June 1 and explaining why shaving is punishable. “I’m scared because they deal ruthlessly with anyone who opposes or ignores their instructions,” he told AFP from Mosul, the de facto Iraqi capital of IS’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Mosul is Iraq’s second city and used to have a population of
Ten years after the record-setting hurricane season that produced Katrina and other destructive storms, forecasters are calling for a quiet year in the Atlantic.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a defense hawk, entered the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, putting criticism of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy at the forefront of his White House bid.
One in three American teenagers have changed their behavior after looking up health information online, according to a major study on adolescents and technology released on Tuesday. Of 1,156 US teens aged 13 to 18 years old surveyed, 84 percent said they have used the Internet to seek out health information. The Internet ranked fourth as a source of health information for teenagers but was the top media source, far
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s effort to curb the use of antibiotics in animals raised for meat is starting with his own employees.
(In the above video, Caitlyn Jenner is referred to as Bruce−at the time of filming, she was publicly identifying as a man. However, with the release of her Vanity Fair cover on June 1,…