A live stick of dynamite was accidentally left on an old plane at an airport museum for four days, a law enforcement officer at Los Angeles International Airport said Thursday. The official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak …
Read More »Saddam Hussein Losing Friends
And now the most dynamic two minutes in television, the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! Ally’s Adieu Saddam Hussein has lost his most important Kurdish ally. Jowhad Herki, chief of the Herki tribe that has supported Saddam since the 1960s, has defected …
Read More »Police: Michigan man strangled woman, 2 children with dog lead, then hanged himself
GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Police say a man strangled a woman and her two children with a dog lead in a northern Michigan trailer then used it to hang himself from a TV antenna outside the home. State police on Tuesday released details about Saturday’s deaths in Oscoda County’s Greenwood …
Read More »San Diego police officer injured in shooting, suspect killed
A suspect who authorities say shot and wounded a female San Diego police officer was shot and killed by police after a freeway chase ended in a shootout Sunday morning. Police said the five-year veteran was shot in the upper torso and was in stable condition at a local hospital. …
Read More »Theatrics, Lip-Synching Shape TV Awards Shows
NEW YORK – Nobody paid much attention to lip-synching until a pop group calledMilli Vanilli (search)won a Grammy for songs that turned out were actually sung by someone else. The 1990 scandalspelled the end of the duo’s career and almostmadelip-synching (search)a thing of the past completely. But with more performances …
Read More »Terrorist Group Denounces Terror
And now the most intriguing two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: Hamas Denounces Suicide Attacks The Palestinian terrorist groupHamas (search)– which has recently killed scores of innocent Israelis with suicide attacks — is condemning this week’s suicide attack in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh because …
Read More »Snow Dreams
Shoveling the more than two feet of snow from my driveway Monday, I couldn’t help but remembermoreinnocenttimes in my life — in this country even –when terror alerts and talk of war didn’tcloud our American dreams. I’m talking about my seven-day guarantee.When I was a kid in the early ’80s …
Read More »Recent anti-immigrant attack on the agenda as South African and Mozambican presidents meet
MAPUTO, Mozambique – Mozambique’s president is hosting his South African counterpart on a state visit. President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday welcomed South African President Jacob Zuma in the Mozambican capital Maputo. Nyusi’s office said in statement that the two presidents are to discuss the recent wave of anti-immigrant attacks in …
Read More »World Bank report says Gaza economy nearing collapse, blames war, blockades and bad governance
JERUSALEM – A new World Bank report warns that Gaza’s economy is on the “verge of collapse.” It said Friday that “blockades, war and poor governance have strangled” the economy of the Gaza Strip, ruled by the Islamic militant group Hamas. The report said Gaza’s GDP would have been four …
Read More »Bangladesh bans radical Islamist group accused of killing atheist bloggers, writers
DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh has banned a radical Islamist group accused of attacking and killing atheist bloggers and writers. The Ministry of Home Affairs said Monday that the Ansarullah Bangla Team was banned in response to a request by police because it has threatened and killed bloggers, writers and other …
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