Nation Nov 01 Navy believes it found wreckage of missing U.S. cargo ship El Faro A U.S. Navy search team has found what it believes is the submerged wreckage of the cargo ship El Faro, which went missing last month during Hurricane Joaquin.
World Nov 01 Questions swirl over Russian plane crash in Egypt that killed 224 New information has emerged about the Russian passenger jet the crashed in the Sinai Peninsula Saturday, though many questions remain about the disaster, whose cause is yet uncertain.
World Oct 31 More than 200 dead after Russian airliner crashes in Egypt’s Sinai MetroJet flight 9268 and its 224 passengers and crew lifted off from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday morning. Just 23 minutes later, the flight lost contact with ground control and plunged more than…
Politics Oct 11 Sanders: Ban on assault weapons is a ‘commonsense’ policy At a rally for his presidential campaign Saturday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders addressed the recent rash of shootings on American college campuses and recommended policies to curb gun violence, including an assault weapons ban.
World Oct 03 Airstrike hits Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan An apparent U.S. airstrike wreaked havoc in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz early Saturday, killing at least 19 civilians and seriously wounding dozens of others at a hospital run by the medical nonprofit Doctors Without Borders.
Nation Aug 16 New Mexico drops water restrictions from Animas River after spill The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for a massive wastewater spill that contaminated a Colorado river Wednesday, and warned locals to avoid the polluted waters.
World Aug 16 Death toll rises from massive warehouse explosion in Tianjin, China The official death toll from the inferno and massive explosions that devastated a container port in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin has climbed to 104 on Saturday.
Politics Aug 15 AT&T cooperated extensively with NSA, Snowden documents reveal New documents released by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden show that telecommunications giant AT&T was for years the most cooperative and prolific provider of Internet and phone data to the NSA…
Nation Aug 09 Questions abound in fatal police shooting of unarmed Texas teen The death of Christian Taylor, an unarmed black 19-year-old shot to death by a Texas police officer in the small hours of Friday morning, has raised questions about the circumstances of the shooting, which some see as fitting a pattern…
Nation Aug 09 Ferguson commemorates one year since Michael Brown’s death One year ago, the police shooting of black teen Michael Brown brought Ferguson, Missouri to international attention, prompted a national conversation about race and justice and electrified the Black Lives Matter movement. On Sunday, one year since Brown's death, the…