Hundreds of armed police in Sydney, Australia, have sealed off an area of the central business district where gunmen are holding what appears to be more than three dozen people hostage inside a cafe. Live television from the scene showed people inside a Lindt chocolate cafe standing with their hands pushed up against the windows. […]Load more...
Thomas Michael Menino, who insisted a mayor doesn’t need a grand vision to lead, then went on to shepherd Boston’s economy and shape the skyline and the very identity of the city he loved through an unprecedented five consecutive terms in City Hall, died Thursday. He was 71and was diagnosed with advanced cancer not long […]Load more...
JOHNSTON, R.I.— Johnston police are questioning a man who was arrested Thursday afternoon behind the city’s high school, Deputy Police Chief Dan Parillo confirms. According to Superintendent Dr. Bernard DiLullo Jr., the man pulled into the parking lot at about noon and knocked on the back door. A teacher’s assistant asked the man what he wanted, […]Load more...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A 29-year-old terminally ill woman who plans to take her life under Oregon’s death-with-dignity law has fulfilled a wish on her bucket list: She visited the Grand Canyon. Brittany Maynard visited the national park with her family last week. Maynard, who has advanced brain cancer, has said she plans to take […]Load more...
PENTAGON—Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has ordered all U.S. troops returning from Ebola response missions in West Africa to be placed in supervised isolation for 21 days. The Pentagon calls the isolation a safety measure sought by military members’ families. Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren says the U.S. military has about 1,100 troops in Liberia […]Load more...
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON—U.S. airlines have said little publicly about political pressure to close the country’s borders to travelers from Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa, but in private they have briefed government officials about the challenges to implementing a ban, industry sources told Reuters. Several dozen U.S. lawmakers have called for a ban on visitors from Sierra […]Load more...
A menacing river of molten lava that bubbled over a road and overran a cemetery on its way towards a village on Hawaii’s Big Island crossed onto a residential property on Tuesday and threatened to consume its first home, officials said. The slow-moving lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano has been advancing on the town of Pahoa […]Load more...
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria are getting reinforcements in their month-long battle with Islamic State militants in the border city of Kobani. A group of about 50 rebels from the Free Syrian Army arrived Wednesday in Kobani after crossing into Syria from Turkey. They join the fight there against the Islamic State group after spending […]Load more...
Wednesday’s successful launch of a Russian space vehicle taking supplies to the International Space Station was in sharp contrast to the explosion of a private U.S. cargo space craft shortly after it’s Tuesday launch on a similar mission. But U.S. space agency NASA, which contracted the private firm to supply the space station, says the […]Load more...
Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Hershel Glenn, Jr., is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery. At 77 years of age, Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space. During the nine-day mission, he served as part of […]Load more...
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