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Gunmen abducted and killed two French radio journalists on assignment in northern Mali on Saturday, grabbing the pair as they left the home of a rebel leader, French and Malian officials said.
When they were kids, Johnny and Luther Htoo were bulletproof and invulnerable to land mines — or so went the story that briefly made them famous as hundreds of guerrillas followed and even worshipped them in the southeastern jungles of Myanmar. Today, well over a decade later, their “God’s Army” is no more, and the twins’ greatest accomplishment may be that both are still alive.
The families of victims and survivors of the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech call campus safety measures instituted at colleges and universities nationwide a “living legacy” that won’t be diminished by a court decision involving two who were killed.
The suspect accused of opening fire inside the Los Angeles airport was determined to lash out at the Transportation Security Administration, saying in a note that he wanted to kill at least one TSA officer and didn’t care which one, authorities said Saturday.
Hallmark has been defending itself this week for an ornament emblazoned with the phrase: “Don we now our FUN apparel!” Critics accuse the company of making a political statement by using the word “fun” to replace “gay” in the lyric from the “Deck the Halls.”
The Pakistani Taliban confirmed the death of their leader in a U.S. drone strike Saturday, a day after he was killed, as the group’s leadership council met to begin the process of choosing a successor.
Johnny Kucks, who pitched a three-hitter for the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the 1956 World Series, has died. He was 81.
The sunburst Fender Stratocaster that a young Bob Dylan played at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he famously went electric, perhaps the most historic instrument in rock ‘n’ roll, is coming up for auction, where it could bring as much as half a million dollars.
A prison doctor couldn’t find veins in the arms of a death row inmate during a pre-execution checkup, the inmate said Friday as he challenges the state’s new, never-tried lethal-injection method. “I guess the Lord hid my veins from them.”