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Police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana have suffered gunshot wounds in what the Advocate reports local law enforcement is calling “an active shooter situation in the area of Airline and Old Hammond highways.” According to NBC Nightly Nights, at least two officers, as well as a suspect, have been shot. Police respond as officers are feared…
“Ghostbusters,” a revival of the 1984 original, hits theaters nationwide on Friday. As a reboot of a beloved, male-led science fiction film from the 1980s with a female-led cast, the reboot has proved somewhat controversial in the circles you would expect. But regardless of the quality of the film, it serves as a perfect demonstration…
Did you hear some weird noises last night, sometime between the hours of 7 p.m. and midnight? First there was a kind of saddest-trombone-in-the-world sound that went on for a while, followed by shouts of righteous joy and a multi-octave chorus of Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman.” The first, of course, was the sound of…
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday there were indications the attacker had been “radicalized very rapidly.” CNN learned Sunday that Bouhlel sent a text message shortly before Thursday’s attack to an unknown recipient saying, “Bring more weapons 5 to C,” according to a representative for the Paris prosecutor’s office. It appears Bouhlel also had…
Story highlights Sheriff: Shooting appears to be “extremely random” Police chief: Staff’s response saved more lives The victims were an elderly female patient and a female hospital employee, who were sitting in the room, Titusville police Chief John Lau said. Moments after the shots rang out, two security guards came into the room at Parrish…
Image copyright EPAImage caption Funerals have been taking place for those killed during the coup attempt Arrests in Turkey after Friday’s failed coup have risen to around 6,000, with President Erdogan vowing to purge state bodies of the “virus” that caused it. At a funeral for one of the victims, Mr Erdogan again blamed US-based…
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s government defeated a coup attempt by renegade officers who pummeled government and security institutions overnight with fighter jets, reasserting control Saturday after hours of clashes that killed at least 265 people and plunged the already troubled country into further uncertainty. The acting military chief, Gen. Umit Dundar, said on TV that more…
A hacking group has claimed responsbility for taking down the Pokémon Go servers using a DDOS attack. A cyber collective known as PoodleCorp announced on Twitter it was behind the action, but this claim is yet to be verified. The account also retweeted a post by a user claiming to be the leader of PoodleCorp. PokemonGo #Offline…
When soldiers first parked tanks on Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge and the sound of low-flying fighter jets buzzed around Turkey’s second city, few people immediately understood what was happening. Most suspected a new terror threat, with the recent jihadi massacre at Istanbul’s main airport looming large in people’s minds. But then, shortly before 11pm on Friday…
BRUSSELS A coup attempt in Turkey involves a substantial part of the military and “not just a few colonels”, a European Union source monitoring events in the EU candidate country said on Friday. “It looks like a relatively well orchestrated coup by a substantial body of the military, not just a few colonels,” the…