U.S. military strikes against Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons are a warning to other nations, including North Korea, that “a response is likely” if they pose a danger, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday.
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The arrested man suspected by police of killing four people by ramming a truck into crowds in Stockholm is a 39-year-old from Uzbekistan who had been denied permanent residency in Sweden and who had expressed sympathy for Islamic State.
Russia and Iran renewed their support for the Syrian government in a flurry of calls on Sunday, saying last week’s U.S. missile strike violated Syrian sovereignty but failed to boost the morale of “terror groups” in Syria.
At least 44 people were killed in bomb attacks on the symbolic cathedral seat of the Coptic Pope and another church on Palm Sunday, prompting anger and fear among Christians and troop deployments across Egypt.
A Chinese real estate scion charged with orchestrating the murder of her children’s father was released from a San Francisco Bay Area jail after posting $35 million bail, a highly unusual financial transaction that startled and angered the victim’s family and friends.
California Gov. Jerry Brown employed all the tricks he’s accumulated over a lifetime in politics to pass one of the largest state tax increases in recent memory in one frenzied week.
Artists from around the country are being asked to submit proposals for a memorial to honor the 19 Arizona men who died fighting a wildfire nearly four years ago near Prescott. The Granite Mountain Hotshots who were killed in the June 2013 fire.
A U.S. Navy strike group will be moving toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula, a U.S. official told Reuters on Saturday, as concerns grow about North Korea’s advancing weapons program.
Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be “cosmetic” if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power.
DALLAS — Hackers struck the sirens Dallas uses to alert residents to take shelter from inclement weather, triggering intermittent false alarms for about an hour and a half until officials deactivated the system early Saturday morning.
A former gym employee opened fire inside the facility on Saturday, critically wounding a manager and another person before he killed himself, officials said.
A woman pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the March 2016 drowning death of her 1-year-old grandson.
Impromptu shrine at site where Irish band was photographed for hit 1987 album “The Joshua Tree” features a cymbal, broken guitars and a suitcase full of quirky memorabilia.
A pre-World War II apartment house collapsed Saturday in southwestern Poland, leaving five people dead, four injured and one missing, authorities said.
