A freelance photojournalist with the Ebola virus has returned to the United States for treatment. Ashoka Mukpo, is the fifth American diagnosed with the Ebola virus. He was on assignment in Liberia for NBC News when he tested positive for Ebola last week and was sent back to the United States on a specially-equipped plane. […]Load more...
Boston -The Coast Guard plucked four lobstermen from the sea when their lobster boat sank Thursday, about 40 miles south of Block Island, Rhode Island.Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England received a distress call at about 4:15 a.m. from the four-man crew aboard the Sakonnet Lobster that the 60-foot boat was taking on water.The Coast Guard First District […]Load more...
BANGKOK—An internal document of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) foresees sex offenders who prey on children taking advantage of Southeast Asia’s planned economic integration in the coming years, posing a rising challenge for law enforcement that already struggle to address such crimes. Southeast Asia’s planned economic integration is promoted as a key […]Load more...
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are threatening to take over several government buildings if the territory’s Beijing-friendly chief executive does not resign Thursday. The student protesters are giving Leung Chun-ying until midnight local time (1600 GMT) to resign, and have already begun camping outside his office in the semi-autonomous Chinese city, and have demanded China […]Load more...
Mexican authorities say they have captured Hector Beltran Leyva — one of the country’s most wanted drug kingpin suspects. Soldiers arrested him Wednesday in the central Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende after a nearly year-long operation. No other details are available. Beltran Leyva is one of four brothers who allegedly headed a vicious […]Load more...
A new poll shows the U.S. economy is the single most important issue for American voters, ahead of elections in November to decide one-third of the members of the U.S. Senate and all members of the House of Representatives. According to an Associated Press-GfK poll released Wednesday, nine in 10 Americans likely to vote in […]Load more...
A Rhode Island child has died of a bacterial infection associated with Enterovirus D68, state public health officials said on Wednesday. The 10 year old of Cumberland, Emily Otrando, died as a result of a staphylococcus aureus sepsis associated with the respiratory virus, which the Rhode Island Department of Health in a statement called a […]Load more...
The director of the U.S. Secret Service, Julia Pierson, has resigned. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday that Pierson met with President Barack Obama, who expressed appreciation for her 30 years of service to the country. Earnest said Pierson took responsibility for the service’s shortcomings and for fixing them. Earnest said the president continues […]Load more...
HYDE PARK, NEW YORK—In 1946, when the American military returned from the World War II, a small vocational culinary institution was established for veterans in the northeastern United States. Today, it is called the Culinary Institute of America – with three campuses in the United States and one in Singapore. More than 12 percent of […]Load more...
The governor of Texas says some school-age children had contact with an Ebola patient now hospitalized in the city of Dallas. Governor Rick Perry says the children are being monitored for signs of Ebola, and that health authorities are seeking out others who came into contact with the man, a Liberian national who is the […]Load more...
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