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Kurdish forces in northern Iraq who are fighting Islamic State (IS) militants were attacked with chemical weapons a few days ago, the German defence ministry said on Thursday. "There was a chemical weapons attack" southwest of Arbil, a ministry spokesman told AFP, adding that some Kurdish fighters…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — An inmate involved in a bloody 1971 San Quentin escape attempt that left six dead has been killed by a fellow prisoner, corrections officials said Wednesday.
A Texas inmate convicted of killing a police officer was executed, after he waived his appeals, saying he wanted to die, prison officials and local media said. Death Row inmate Daniel Lopez, 27, was killed by lethal injection at 6:31 pm (2331 GMT), according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice…
Sensing its airspace was threatened, this Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle sprang to action and, with one punch from its mighty talons, knocked this drone right out of the sky.
Attorney Gloria Allred brought forth three more women who were allegedly sexually assaulted by comedian Bill Cosby during a press conference in Los Angeles Wednesday morning, bringing the total number of accusers up to nearly 50.
Donald Trump Has Banks Furious Over His Mortgage Payoff Advice.
DEAR ABBY: I'm writing in response to "Not Talking About the Future" (March 24), whose wife has breast cancer, was told she has only a few years to live, and feels sad when her kids talk about their futures. My dad was diagnosed with stage four multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer, in 2006. He…
By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has warned states moving to defund women's health group Planned Parenthood that they may be in conflict with federal law, officials said on Wednesday. The agency warned those two states that their plans to terminate Medicaid provider…
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Peyton Manning says Tom Brady apologized to him — unnecessarily — after taking a shot at him in recently released emails.
North Korea's vice premier Choe Yong-Gon has been executed for voicing frustration at the policies of leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, citing an anonymous source. Choe, who took the job in June 2014, was executed by firing squad in May after voicing opposition to…
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Are little green men about to appear on the North Pole? Russia’s claim last week, using an extremely creative interpretation of international law, to exclusive economic rights to nearly half a million square miles of the Arctic Sea was certainly a head-scratcher. Sure, the territory is valuable due…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Philip Johnson was dying of pancreatic cancer when he brought his former wife, Thanh Tran, to the basement of his home in Venice, California. Under a tarp that was weighted down with bricks was a violin case with a combination lock.
Waco Police said Randall Hughes, 48, pulled a knife on officers on Tuesday in a small room of the supermarket and they shot him because they feared for their lives. Had he got to our officers, without a doubt, he would have caused serious bodily injury or death," Waco Police spokesman Sergeant…
A medieval sword inscribed with a mysterious message is stumping researchers and causing a stir among armchair historians. The 13th-century weapon was found in the River Witham in Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom, in 1825. It now belongs to the British Museum, but is currently on loan to the…
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The Islamic State has freed 22 Assyrian Christians abducted from villages in northeastern Syria, Agence France-Presse reported. Why would IS, a group known for its gruesome beheadings of civilians and its vision of a purely Islamic world, allow Christians to go free? Graeme Wood, a political…
Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino wants tiny houses built for the homeless in his district to be removed from city streets.
Oba Okunade Sijuwade -- a royal among the Yoruba people known as the Ooni of Ife, Olubuse II -- was 85. President Muhammadu Buhari's office did not give the cause or date of death but local media reports citing family said he was in frail condition and died at a private hospital in London at the…
Bumble Bee Foods will pay a record $6 million to settle criminal charges filed after a worker burned to death nearly three years ago inside an industrial oven packed with canned tuna, Los Angeles prosecutors said on Wednesday. The settlement represents the largest payout in the criminal prosecution…
A technology-fueled gold rush is drawing seasoned financial executives to an industry that is unfamiliar to some. What's in store for the future?
The United States said it would raise the issue of a recent Moscow visit by a senior Iranian general at the United Nations, saying it violated UN resolutions on Iran. General Qassem Suleimani's visit to Russia, reportedly in late July, had not received much attention until it was mentioned in…
The city poured 96 million, black, four-inch plastic balls over the surface of its 175-acre reservoir earlier this week - the first city in the country to use shade balls to preserve its water sources, officials said.
Herds of feral horses are roaming on thousands of acres in Louisiana where soldiers conduct intensive training, posing a danger and a nuisance to troops at risk of being kicked, bitten or unpleasantly surprised by random piles of manure, Army officials say.