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WASHINGTON — A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder on Tuesday after a video surfaced showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man while the man ran away. The officer, Michael T. Slager, 33, said he had feared for his life because the man had…
Photo Gov. Mike Pence held a news conference to discuss the Religious Freedom Restoration Act at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis on Tuesday. “We want to make it clear that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan but a way of life,” he said. Credit Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana said Tuesday…
“Let’s be honest here,” O’Malley said. “The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.” READ: Can this Democrat really beat Hillary Clinton? The Democrat’s comments, in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” are another signal that he’s likely to challenge Clinton in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary….
What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub. GitHub is still battling what it says is the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in the service’s history. What began around 10 p.m. Eastern Wednesday was still underway on Monday morning, according to GitHub’s Twitter feed. The…
A driver of a vehicle tried to ram a gate at the National Security Agency building in Fort Meade Monday morning, resulting in a shooting, authorities say. Chad Jones, a spokesman at Fort Meade, told The Associated Press that two people are being treated for injuries and emergency responders are on the scene. Jones told…
Photo Fire officials said a blast occurred on Second Avenue on Thursday afternoon; calls began streaming in at 3:17. Credit Joseph Burgess/The New York Times Firefighters were on the scene of an apparent explosion on Thursday afternoon in the East Village, and a building at the location appeared to have been partially destroyed while another…
fe474.global.media.bf1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Thu Mar 26 19:48:41 UTC 2015 NEW YORK (Reuters) – A building collapsed on Thursday in New York City’s East Village neighborhood, police said. There was no immediate information on possible injuries, said a spokesman for the New York Police Department. (Reporting by Laila Kearney, Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst) Content preferences Done Building…
51 photos Smoke rises from the front line of a clash south of Kirkuk, Iraq, on Saturday, March 14. 51 photos A group of Kurdish Peshmerga troops take a break from fighting ISIS militants south of Kirkuk on March 14. 51 photos Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen gather in Tikrit on Friday, March…
CC BY-ND WikiCommons developing Large passenger jet crashes in southern France World News • March 24, 2015 5:40 AMMarch 24, 2015 5:40 AM FOLLOW STORY Register or sign in to receive story updates. FOLLOW STORY Register or sign in to receive story updates. CC BY-ND WikiCommons this is necessary because of the different way mobile…
Employees of Amtrak, the publically-funded railroad service, earned themselves a round of bonuses because their agency only lost $214 million last year. A second set of bonuses was scrapped after Amtrak fell far short of its customer satisfaction goals, according to the agency’s inspector general. RELATED: Why we’re not going to get Northeast Corridor high-speed…