World May 30 Humanitarian crisis at sea: More than 4,200 migrants rescued in Mediterranean More than 4,200 migrants trying to reach Europe were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea over the past 24 hours, the Italian Coast Guard said Saturday, amid the swelling humanitarian crisis at sea.
World May 29 FIFA president re-elected despite corruption probe Sepp Blatter won a fifth term as president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association, or FIFA, on Friday, at the end of a week of major developments in separate Swiss and American investigations into widespread corruption in the soccer…
World May 25 Mass graves in Malaysia might hold remains of smuggled migrants Police in Malaysia said Monday that more than 139 graves were found near the border with Thailand, and they suspect the graves contain the remains of migrants who were staying in camps run by smugglers.
Nation May 25 Watch the wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery President Barack Obama will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. The event will be followed by an observance program hosted by the Department of Defense at at Arlington's Memorial Amphitheater. Watch…
World May 20 Moroccan man arrested for attack on Tunisian museum Italian police arrested a Moroccan man Tuesday evening for allegedly helping perpetrate the hours-long siege on Tunisia’s Bardo museum that left 22 people dead.
Nation May 15 Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death The jury has reached a verdict in the trial for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Boston Globe reported.
Nation May 14 8 confirmed dead in Amtrak crash An Amtrak train traveling from Washington, D.C., to New York derailed in north Philadelphia Tuesday night, killing at least six and injuring more than 100.
World May 12 Another powerful earthquake hits Nepal, kills dozens A magnitude 7.3 earthquake that shook Nepal early this morning killed dozens of people, triggered landslides in the Himalayas near Mount Everest and brought down buildings already weakened by last month's devastating tremblor.
Nation May 07 NSA phone data collection program is illegal, says appeals court The National Security Agency’s program to collect reams of Americans’ phone calls is not authorized by Congress, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said Thursday.
Nation Apr 30 Obama to nominate Gayle Smith as next USAID chief President Barack Obama intends to nominate Gayle Smith, his adviser and the senior director for development and democracy at the National Security Council, as the next administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the White House said Thursday.