A 20-year-old man was in custody after threatening to bomb Saturday's rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Waterbury, Connecticut. At around 12:45 p.m., the U.S. Secret Service contacted the Connecticut State Police after seeing a threat posted on Twitter threatening to "bomb" the Trump...
Longer prison sentences for non-violent criminals and crowded prisons are hurting the American economy more than they are helping it, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration said in a report released on Saturday. The prison population in the United States is 4.5 times larger than it was in 1980,...
A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to killings of secular bloggers and atheists by suspected Islamist extremists. AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was a professor of English at Rajshahi University in the country's north-west. He was attacked with machetes as he...
Syrian warplanes bombed the rebel-held town of Douma near Damascus and parts of Aleppo in the north on Saturday, killing 23 people, with the death toll likely to rise, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mediators have struggled to get combatants in Syria's five-year-old war to honour a Feb. 27 cessation of...
THE barbaric Islamic State has claimed the capture of a Syrian pilot after shooting down a warplane. ISIS affiliated news agency Amaq has claimed that war-crazed jihadis gunned down the jet south east of Syrian capital Damascus. The news agency said: "The pilot, called Azzam Eid, from Hama was captured after he fell by...
There is "no reason to believe" that Prince's death was suicide, the sheriff of the Minnesota county where the singer had his home has said after a post-mortem examination. There was no sign of trauma on the body, Sheriff Jim Olson said, suggesting the singer had died alone. Prince, 57, was found dead in a lift on...
RUSSIA has sent a chilling warning to the world by testing a new “hypersonic glide vehicle” that can blast past missile defences a fire nuclear warheads at its enemies. State media Russia Today claims the new technology will make it impossible its enemies’ defences to calculate the warhead’s trajectory...
At least eight people have been killed in "execution-style killings" in four places near each other in rural Ohio. It is believed the victims — seven adults and one teenager — are from the same family, the state's attorney general said in a statement. They were all shot to death in the head and any...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras criticized neighboring Turkey Friday for preventing a NATO force in the Aegean Sea from expanding its activities further south along the two countries' borders as a part of its deployment to help tackle the refugee crisis. NATO has deployed ships in the northern Aegean to help combat...
A judge has cleared Canadian Senator Mike Duffy of all 31 charges in a corruption case. Canadian prosecutors argued that the ally of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper kept a "slush fund" for illegitimate expenses. Mr Duffy faced 31 charges, including bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and denied them all. He was...
Remains found Thursday in a remote part of Shenandoah National Park have been tentatively identified as a Virginia firefighter missing since this past Friday. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller confirmed in an email to the Associated Press that the body is likely that of 31-year-old Nicole Mittendorff, of...
WWE legend Chyna, real name Joanie Laurer, died Wednesday, her official Twitter page announced. She was 45. The Los Angeles Times, citing Chyna’s manager and police, reports that she was found dead inside her Redondo Beach home. A cause of death had yet to be determined. “The Redondo Beach Police received a 911 call...