The Taliban fired several rockets at the Kabul international airport on Wednesday in an attack the insurgents claimed targeted the plane of visiting U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis.
Here are your Wednesday morning headlines.
The child was taken to the trauma unit at University Medical Center after being struck Wednesday morning at the intersection of Lake Mead Boulevard and Clifford Street, near Pecos Road.
Maribel Valentin Espino and her husband say they have not seen anyone from the Puerto Rican government, much less the Federal Emergency Management Agency, since Hurrican Maria tore up the island Sept. 20, killing at least 16 people and leaving nearly all 3.4 million people in Puerto Rico without power and most without water.
Louisville has placed coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on administrative leave amid a federal bribery investigation.
Highs in the upper 80s expected to give way to temperatures in the 90s for the weekend, National Weather Service says.
Winds and storm surge from Maria lashed North Carolina’s Outer Banks on Wednesday as the storm regained strength, again becoming a hurricane.
The Crusaders earned their first win of the season on Saturday by overcoming a 17-point deficit to beat Palo Verde.
Investigators believe a Russian couple knocked their victims out with sedatives, then skinned them alive. Afterward, police say, they ate parts of their victims, froze the remains or packed them in jars filled with saline solution.
LONDON — Kit Harington and his former “Game of Thrones” on-screen romantic partner, Rose Leslie, are engaged.
Norman Dyhrenfurth, a Swiss-American mountaineer and filmmaker who organized the successful American expedition in 1963 to Mount Everest that put six climbers on the summit and inspired generations of Americans, has died. He was 99.
Southern California firefighters saved nearly 2,000 homes from a powerful wildfire that burned up to the edges of suburban canyon neighborhoods.
BOSTON — Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler says he has returned to the United States for medical care and the band is canceling the last four shows of its tour in South America.
Las Vegas police are searching for a man who used a Taser on his Lyft driver Wednesday morning in the central valley.
BOSTON — The anticipated release of thousands of never-before-seen government documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination has scholars and armchair detectives buzzing. Now, they’re waiting to see whether President Donald Trump will block the release of files that could shed light on a tragedy that has stirred conspiracy theories for decades.
A bicyclist was hospitalized after a Tuesday night crash in the central valley.