137 dead, 345 wounded in Yemen mosque bombings
A group claiming to be a branch of the Islamic State claims responsibility for the attacks.Read More ...
Stargazers share stunning images of solar eclipse
People across Europe shot stunning footage of the solar eclipse that turned the morning sky dark.Read More ...
Indian train accident kills at least 30, leaves 50 injured
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Sharat Pradhan Bachhrawan, India (Reuters) - At least 30 people were
killed and 50 injured when an express train overshot a railway signal
and some carriages went off the rails in a northern Indian state on
Friday, officials said. India's creaking railway system is the world's
fourth largest, ferrying more than 20 million people each day, but it
has a poor safety record, with thousands of people dying in accidents
every year. Friday’s accident occurred at Bachhrawan railway station,
about 45 km (28 miles) from Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, one
of India's most populous states."Dead bodies after dead bodies were
being pulled out," said Gyaneshwari, a 43-year-old passenger, who uses
only one name. Blood was splattered in and around the wreckage.The
accident happened when the train driver "overshot the signal ... causing
derailment of the tail engine and two coaches," Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu told parliament.Read More ...
Day 1 of NCAA tourney: 12 hours of nonstop drama
t'll be difficult for the NCAA tournament to top the last-possession magic of Thursday's 16 games.Read More ...
Secret Service chief insists no crash at White House
Joseph Clancy says reports of a crash by potentially intoxicated agents "are inaccurate."Read More ...
Ohio man cleared of murder after 39 years in jail to get $1 million payment
(Reuters)
- An Ohio man freed last year after spending 39 years in jail for a
murder he did not commit will receive more than $1 million from the
state for his wrongful imprisonment, court records show. An Ohio Court
of Claims judge on Thursday ordered that just over $1 million be paid to
Ricky Jackson, the longest-held U.S. prisoner to be cleared of a crime.
"Wow, I didn't know that," Jackson told the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
which said he learnt of the payment from a journalist. Jackson was
convicted along with Wiley Bridgeman and Bridgeman's brother, Kwame
Ajamu, for the 1975 murder of Harold Franks, a money order salesman in
the Cleveland area, after a 12-year-old boy testified he saw the attack,
court papers show.Read More ...
U.S unveils new rules to for fracking on federal lands
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Interior said on Friday it finalized new rules to govern drilling on federal land using a process known as fracking, including new measures to protect groundwater. The rules, the culmination of a four-year process, will affect over 100,000 oil and gas wells on federally managed lands, 90 percent of which use the hydraulic fracturing technique. ...
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Border Patrol agent in Washington state shoots person dead
(Reuters) - A Border Patrol agent in Washington state fatally shot a person on Thursday who was suspected of crossing the U.S.-Canada border illegally and attacking the officer, officials said. The shooting occurred around 2:30 p.m. local time near Sumas, Washington, according to a statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The statement said the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, Customs and Border Protection internal affairs and other authorities were investigating the incident, and that details had also been sent to the FBI.
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Total solar eclipse: How to watch it live online
Editor's
Note for March 20 at 7:24 a.m. EDT: The total solar eclipse is over,
but you can see amazing images of the cosmic event now. Even though most
people around the world won't be able to see Friday's total solar
eclipse in person, anyone with an Internet connection can watch it live
online thanks to two webcasts featuring the cosmic event. The March 20
total solar eclipse — the first since November 2013 — will make the
daytime sky go dark for people in the Faroe Islands and parts of the
North Atlantic. You can watch the 2.5-hour-long solar eclipse webcast
through the Slooh website starting at 4:30 a.m. EDT (0830 GMT) on March
20.Read More ...
Exclusive: Despite Hillary Clinton promise, charity did not disclose donors
By
Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised
Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who
was giving money to her family's globe-circling charities. She made a
pledge to publish all the donors on an annual basis to ease concerns
that as secretary of state she could be vulnerable to accusations of
foreign influence. At the outset, the Clinton Foundation did indeed
publish what they said was a complete list of the names of more than
200,000 donors and has continued to update it. In response to questions
from Reuters, officials at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
and the foundation confirmed no complete list of donors to the Clintons'
charities has been published since 2010.Read More ...
Jeb Bush live-streams Atlanta speech using Meerkat
Jeb Bush delivered a speech via Meerkat, the live-streaming app that’s been predicted to change the 2016 election.Read More ...
Israeli leader backtracks from Palestinian state opposition
JERUSALEM
(AP) — Days after winning re-election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu on Thursday backtracked from hard-line statements against the
establishment of a Palestinian state in the face of a diplomatic
backlash.Read More ...
Judge won't release grand jury testimony in Eric Garner death
The judge argued there wasn't a good enough reason to release the secret information.Read More ...
Why Mitt Romney isn't running for president
The former GOP candidate tells Yahoo's Katie Couric the reason he decided not to run again.Read More ...
IS claims deadly museum attack in Tunisia
According
to an online audio recording, the militant group has claimed
responsibility for an attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital on
Wednesday which killed 20 foreign tourists. It praised the two attackers
whom the recording said were "knights of the Islamic State" who were
armed with machineguns and bombs. (Reporting By Omar Fahmy; Writing by
Noah Browning; Editing by Toby Chopra)Read More ...
Matt Bai: A Yelp for teachers
Maybe
what we need, and what teachers should welcome, isn’t the data on the
test scores and “value-added” rankings that some parents are demanding —
or, at least, not that alone. What we need is for some tech
entrepreneur to come up with a Yelp or an Angie’s List for public
schools, because the amalgamated voice of the consumer is the most
powerful kind of accountability in American life.Read More ...
Virginia to investigate bloody arrest of black college student
The arrest of Martese Johnson, 20, sparks campus protests and claims of police brutality.Read More ...
Tunisia makes arrests after deadly museum attack
Authorities
have arrested nine people in connection with a gun attack at the Bardo
Museum in Tunis that killed 22 people and two alleged attackers, a
spokeswoman for the Tunisian presidential office told ABC News.Read More ...
One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb
By
David Schwartz MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a
motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa on Wednesday, killing a man and
wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to
elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture, police said.
Officers using a stun gun subdued the suspected gunman, identified as
Ryan Elliot Giroux, 41, at a vacant condominium where he had taken
refuge, some four hours after the initial shooting, Mesa police
spokesman Esteban Flores told reporters.Read More ...
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