Russian President Vladimir Putin reappeared on Monday after 10 unexplained days out of public view, laughing off the “gossip” over his health that had erupted during his absence.
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Pomona police said late Saturday they are seeking a rookie Los Angeles police officer in connection with the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man the day before, calling the officer a “person of interest” in the homicide case.
The bus, carrying a group of evangelical Christians to a religious event in the neighboring state of Parana, swerved off a curve on Saturday and fell hundreds of meters before crashing in a wooded area.
The rally by civil groups and some leftist parties coincided with an established national holiday and with a new Sunday trading ban that forced most shops to close, despite criticism from the retail sector and an Ipsos survey showing more than two-thirds of people asked were against it.
The suspect had earlier participated in the protest rally, the prosecutor said, and he was involved in earlier demonstrations in Ferguson.
Two were 17-year-old boys from northwest London who had gone missing, a Metropolitan Police news release said.
At least eight lawsuits have been filed in Connecticut courts since January on behalf of relatives of 16 people killed in the massacre — four adults and 12 children. Court documents also list two people who suffered serious injuries.
Tony Robinson Jr., a biracial young man, was unarmed during a confrontation with a white police officer in Madison, his death being the latest in a string of shootings of unarmed black and Latino men in U.S. cities that stirred debate about race and policing.
Almost two days after two officers were shot and wounded at a Ferguson, Missouri, protest, investigators were still seeking breaks in the case, authorities said Friday.
The frantic voices of rescuers can be heard on the body-cam video showing the moment baby Lily was found one week ago.
A Black Hawk helicopter that went down in waters off the Florida Panhandle three days ago — killing 11 service members — had aborted a training mission due to bad weather before it crashed, a military official said Friday.
Transit police in Washington, D.C., fatally shot a man they encountered in a subway tunnel without authorization on Thursday, officials said.
Police arrested nine teenagers from a Los Angeles high school on Friday in connection with sexual assaults and unlawful sex acts against two students, and investigators are seeking five more minors who also are suspects, a police official said.
A Turkish broadcaster on Friday released what it said was footage of an alleged spy working for a country in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State helping three British school girls enter Syria via Turkey.
Francis also said he “did not mind” being pope but would like to be able to go out in Rome unrecognized for a pizza.