WorldNews.com Volkswagen has agreed to pay about $10.2 billion to settle claims in the US from customers for its unprecedented diesel emissions cheating scandal, two people briefed on the matter told the Associated...
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WorldNews.com Multiple media reports say a masked gunman who entered a cinema complex in the western German city of Viernheim in the state of Hessen and reportedly held hostages has been killed. State Interior...
The Atlantic Officer Caesar Goodson, the Baltimore police officer driving a van where Freddie Gray was mortally injured in April 2015, is not guilty of all seven charges, a judge ruled Thursday morning. The most...
WorldNews.com Fifty-one people were killed and numerous buildings were destroyed Thursday in eastern China when a powerful tornado struck province of Jiangsu, state media reported. The Associated Press reported the...
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WorldNews.com In the midst of the Democratic Party protest against legislative inaction on gun safety proposals, Rep. Jim McDermott mocked House Speaker Paul Ryan, Raw Story reported. McDermott said the sit-in, organized by fellow Democrat John Lewis, a veteran of...
WorldNews.com The number of valid signatures required to initiate a recall referendum against current President Nicolas Maduro by his political opposition has been met according to Reuters. The country has been going through an economic crisis, culminating this...
WorldNews.com Actor Tom Cruise recently celebrated the grand opening of the Church of Scientology's massive studio complex last month but images and full details are just being released according to Forbes. The site took five years to fully renovate and cost $50...
WorldNews.com Several of the Tamil asylum seekers stranded after arriving by boat on the Indonesian island of Aceh had been tortured in Sri Lanka and face certain persecution if they are returned, a compatriot living in Australia has claimed, The Guardian reports....
WorldNews.com Those tuning in to C-SPAN to view the sit-in currently underway in an effort of the House of Representatives to pass a measure tightening gun control are seeing it not from the usual camera but the social media feeds of those present according to The...
WorldNews.com Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert wheeled himself into a federal prison in Minnesota on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys while a high school...
WorldNews.com Hillary Clinton has received a major bipartisan endorsement from national security expert Brent Scowcroft, WPTV reports. Scowcroft was the national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush and is widely respected in national...
WorldNews.com Following the launch of two ballistic missiles by North Korea, both the United States and Japan requested an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council Wednesday, The Associated Press reported. France, which holds the council presidency, said closed...
WorldNews.com A sick worker at a polar station located at the South Pole was airlifted from the site early Wednesday by a small plane making a daring rescue mission, U.S. officials said. The Canadian-owned Twin Otter turboprop plane is headed on the 1,500-mile...
Al Jazeera Lightning has killed at least 70 people, mostly farm labourers working in fields, in eastern India this week as a much anticipated summer monsoon advances across the country. An official in the...
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