Even before 34-year-old ArmySpecialistIvan Lopez was officially identified as the shooter who killed three people and wounded 16 at Fort Hood on Wednesday, Army officials had revealed that the gunman was suffering from mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, a "self-reported" a brain injury, and possibly PTSD. Yet, on Thursday Secretary of the ArmyJohn McHugh told a Senate panel that the Iraq vet had "a clean record," with "no outstanding bad marks...
There is a huge security operation in Afghanistan as presidential candidates prepare for Saturday's vote. The new president will succeed Hamid Karzai, who has been in power since the 2001 fall of the Taliban but is constitutionally barred from seeking a third consecutive term. It should be the...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II — bearing a basket of honey, whiskey and other goodies from the royal estates — paid a visit to PopeFrance at the Vatican on Thursday. The pontiff returned the courtesy with a gift for Prince George, Elizabeth's great-grandson. The Argentine-born pope...
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ShareABCUS News | ABC BusinessNewsCopy The soldier accused of opening fire at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding 16, was an Iraq war veteran who was battling an array of mental health issues and taking medications, military officials said today. Spc. Ivan Lopez, a 34-year-old soldier...
BOSTON (AP) -- The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects culminated in a chaotic gunfight that placed police and the public in danger because it lacked coordination and restraint, according to an otherwise largely positive report released Thursday by Harvard University on the emergency...
MARIA DANILOVA Associated Press= KIEV, Ukraine (AP) â Ukraine's interim authorities accused the country's ousted president of ordering snipers to open fire on protesters and getting help from Russian security agents to battle his own people â but their report Thursday provided no evidence...
Several minutes late after lunch with Italian president, the Queen presents pontiff with a hamper of British foodThe Queen and PopeFrancis at the Vatican. Photograph: AP The Queen has met Pope Francis for the first time at the Vatican, presenting the famously plain-living pontiff with a hamper of...
