Swiss chainsaw massacre: Five hurt, manhunt underway Five people were wounded and a section of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen was sealed off Monday after a man armed with a chainsaw rampaged through the city’s Old Town. Police said the assault was not a terrorist attack, according to Swiss broadcaster […]
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The USS Constitution ‘Old Ironsides’ is afloat again It took a whole lot of copper to make “Old Ironsides” ship shape again. After a restoration process that took more than two years, the USS Constitution first launched in 1797 and the oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat was eased back […]
Mystery deepens after African teens vanish from U.S. robotics fair Six African high school students who vanished from an international robotics fair in Washington remained missing — sort of — Sunday as investigators tried to determine where they are and whether their own families conspired in their disappearance. The Burundi […]
Wisconsin company to install rice-sized microchips in employees Welcome to the future? A Wisconsin technology company is offering its employees microchip implants that can be used to scan into the building and purchase food at work. Whether or not to get a chip is up to the employee to decide. […]
Blistering hot truck full of immigrants found at Texas Walmart; 9 dead An apparent smuggling operation involving undocumented immigrants came to a tragic conclusion early Sunday morning when emergency responders found dozens of people in distress inside a hot semi-trailer in a Walmart parking lot. Eight people were dead at […]
Minneapolis mayor looks to new police chief amid firestorm over fatal shooting Embattled Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges is turning to a veteran city cop to try to right the ship for the city’s police department in the aftermath of this month’s fatal shooting by an officer of an unarmed Australian […]
Human smuggling tragedy comes amid fewer border arrests Despite an apparent human smuggling operation that resulted in the gruesome deaths of nine in a tractor-trailer in Texas, the number of people apprehended for illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico remains sharply lower in recent months compared with past […]
Mosul: Corpses, booby traps and snipers are everywhere in devastated city The massive effort to drive the Islamic State from what had been Iraq’s second-largest city is now being matched by an enormous challenge to bring an ancient metropolis back to life from near total ruin. Much of the historic […]
Trump to speak Monday on health care President Trump on Monday will speak to the press at the White House about health care, minutes after meeting with what he calls “victims of Obamacare.” The statement, announced late Sunday by the White House, comes nearly a week after Trump pressed Republican […]
President Bachelet of Chile Is the Last Woman Standing in the Americas No one relished the milestone more than President Michelle Bachelet of Chile.For a few years, she and two other female leaders presided over much of South America, representing more than half of the continent’s population. Their presidencies — […]
