President Obama has ordered a review of federal programs that supplied nearly half a billion dollars in military equipment to municipal police departments last year, amid criticism of the heavily armed response by local law enforcement agencies to protests in ...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel bombed an apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the 12-story building in an unprecedented strike, while Hamas kept up heavy rocket fire that sent more Israelis fleeing border areas close to Gaza.
Hamas Terrorists Refuse to Stop Firing Rockets Into Israeli Civilian Areas. Over 500 rockets have been fired at Israel since talks broke down. The IAF pounded a building that that was center of terro…rist activity and housed several Hamas operation rooms.. MUCH WARNING has been sent out to residents of Gaza including "For your own safety prevent terror operations from using your property to terrorists purpose and stay away from any place u...
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) - Forces from the Libyan city of Misrata on Saturday seized Tripoli's main airport after more than a month of fighting with a rival group, a Misrata spokesman said.
Libya Islamist militias 'seize Tripoli airport' - Tripoli AFP - Islamist fighters in the Fajr Libya Libyan Dawn coalition said on Saturday they have captured Tripolis battered international ai…rport after many days of clashes with nationalist militiamen.The claim followed a setback the previous night when a mystery warplane raided Islamist positions, killing at least 10 fighters, a Fajr Libya spokesman said.If independent sources conf ... ...
In early 2011, the tiny Jennings police department in north St. Louis County was reeling from a series of lawsuits and complaints that its officers had used excessive force on its black residents, including shooting at a fleeing car with a baby inside and striking ...
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Welcome to the triple winners club, Joey Logano. Logano became the fifth driver to tally his third victory of the season on Saturday night, holding off Team Penske teammate Brad Keselowski in the final turn to win at Bristol Motor Speedway.
LONDON/FREETOWN (Reuters) - A British national living in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, the first Briton to fall victim to the deadly disease that has spread across the West African region since March, the Department of Health said on Saturday.
The department of health has confirmed that a Brit living in sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola. According to the department of health, “We can confirm that a British national residing in Sier…ra Leone has tested for the deadly virus. Medical…
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A strong, magnitude 6.6 quake hit central Chile on Saturday, shaking buildings and prompting power outages in the capital, Santiago, but not causing any major damage.
The murder of a US journalist by an Islamic State militant believed to be from the UK is "an utter betrayal of everything the British people stand for", the foreign secretary has said.
The militias' record for taking on well-armored U.S. troops is one of their selling points to Iraqi Shiites seeking a force to protect them from the Islamic State's brutality.
This handout photo provided by the Office of the Defense Secretary (OSD), taken Aug. 19, 2014, shows a Chinese fighter jet that the Obama administration said Friday conducted a "dangerous intercept" of a U.S.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at a Republican picnic in Chichester, N.H. (Jim Cole / Associated Press). By Maeve Reston contact the reporter · IraqRick PerryIslamic StateIllegal ImmigrantsIraq Crisis (2014)ImmigrationJames Foley.
Saturday's event followed a summer of racial unrest tied to the deaths of two black men - Michael Brown and Eric Garner - by police, highlighting the troubled relationship between minority communities and police.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on Friday signaled a departure from the austerity-focused mind-set that has dominated economic policy-making in the euro zone since the onset of the region's debt crisis nearly five years ago, as officials ...
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said that using foreign workers to help mitigate potential labor force shortages in the future deserves consideration.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was extremely close to making history with a 2000 milestone for the past week. During last week, the S&P 500 flirted with the magic number for a while, but it fell short of 12 points at the end of the week.
Tor has claimed that the NSA and GCHQ cyber agents secretly help Tor by reporting bugs that can be patched to prevent it from being used for surveillance.
The fact is that most smartphone users aren't adding new apps regularly, according to a new report from comScore. People have limited storage space on their phones.
Remember the massive data breach Target suffered late last year, where hackers compromised the credit card data of over 40 million Target customers and cost the retail giant millions of dollars?
IDG News Service - Amazon plans to expand its small online ad delivery business enough to take on Google's AdWords, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
This is way overdue: "Amazon's offering would resemble Google's AdWords, the engine that Google uses to place keyword-targeted ads ... Amazon could use the data it has about buying behavi…or to help make these ads much more effective ... Amazon seeks to mimic Google's cash-cow business." From the limited information available, this sounds like it's going both after AdWords (keyword-based ads in search results) and AdSens...
Lorde will be presenting at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night at 9 p.m., and we can only imagine the creative outfit she's going to spontaneously come up with.
Kevin Love's months-, possibly years-long push to get out of Minnesota has finally been granted. A three-team trade has been established, where the Cleveland Cavaliers get Love; the Timberwolves g…et Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett and Thaddeus Young (from the Philadelphia 76ers); and the Sixers get Alexey Shved, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute and a 2015 first-round draft pick (from the Miami Heat). The Cavs provided a statement on the trade: The ...
Aug 23 (The Sports Xchange) - The Boston Red Sox signed Cuban outfielder Rusney Castillo on Saturday and he was on the field at Fenway Park before their game against the Seattle Mariners.
Reykjavik: Iceland on Saturday closed airspace over certain areas after Bardarbunga volcano burst forth with a small eruption under the ice of Europe's largest glacier.
European space officials say they're investigating whether the inaccurate deployment of two satellites will complicate their efforts to develop a new Galileo satellite navigation system that would rival America's GPS network.
In the interconnected world that we live in, incidents of disease can quickly turn into outbreaks, and officials in Santa Barbara are trying to avoid just that.
PRESIDENT OBAMA ORDERS A REVIEW OF HOW POLICE GET MILITARY EQUIPMENT. FIRST, MONTGOMERY COUNTY IS TAKING TO THE AIR TONIGHT TO COMBAT THE SPREADING WEST NILE VIRUS.
Breakfast is the most important meal on any day. This is what we were told since the beginning. But now a new research data published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has challenged everyone's belief and suggested that breakfast as the top ...
