Kenyan officials said security forces controlled nearly all of an upscale mall on Monday, two days after it was seized by members of a Somali terrorist group who invaded with guns blazing, killing at least 62 people.
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The attack on the upscale Westgate Mall in Kenya’s capital has killed dozens of people, from Africa, Europe, the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas.
Federal authorities plan to recommend whether to seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by the end of next month and expect U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to decide early next year whether to pursue it, prosecutors said Monday.
Pre-moistened towelettes are being blamed for creating clogs in sewer systems around the country. The problem is costing some municipalities millions of dollars to dispatch crews to unclog pipes and pumps.
Speaking Sunday, just blocks away from where the Washington Navy Yard shootings happened a week ago, President Barack Obama called on Americans not to give up on trying to change gun laws that he argued are to blame for an epidemic of violence.
A pair of suicide bombers detonated their explosives outside a historic church in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing over 60 people in the deadliest-ever attack on the country’s Christian minority, officials said.
Catholics around the globe are reacting mostly positively to Pope Francis’ recent remarks that the church has become too focused on “small-minded rules” on hot-button issues like homosexuality, abortion and contraceptives.
Greater efforts are needed to identify and lock up mentally ill people who are dangerous, a top National Rifle Association official responding to the recent Washington Navy Yard shootings said Sunday.
LONDON — The attack on the upscale Westgate Mall in Kenya’s capital has killed 59 people and wounded at least 175. The dead include Africans, Europeans, Asians and North Americans. Here are details about some of the victims.
Fourteen hours per body. That’s how long rescue crews with shovels, hydraulic equipment, anything they can muster, are averaging to find the victims of a massive landslide that took half the remote coffee-growing village of La Pintada, leaving 68 people missing.
The House voted last week for a stopgap bill that would keep the government running through mid-December, but also defund the landmark health care law.
A tentative deal has been reached in a New York court fight over the will of a Montana copper mining heiress whose father founded Las Vegas that would give more than $30 million of her $300 million estate to her distant relatives, a person familiar with the case said Saturday.
Obese people are less likely to survive cancer, and one reason may be a surprising inequality: The overweight are undertreated.
The Mexican government searched for victims and continued assessing the damage Saturday from the one-two punch of storms Manuel and Ingrid, as a missing Federal Police helicopter working on the rescue was found crashed. All aboard died.
Black women are joining traditionally white sororities at the University of Alabama amid efforts to end racial segregation within Greek-letter social groups.