‘This is taking an awfully long time!’, says scientist before assisted suicide A 104-year-old Australian scientist killed himself in Switzerland on Thursday by lethal injection in an assisted suicide he hoped would trigger more lenient euthanasia laws in his home country. British-born David Goodall, who was not terminally ill, personally […]
Iraqis voting in first election since Islamic State For the first time since driving out Islamic State, Iraqis go to the polls on Saturday in an election that will shape attempts to heal the country’s deep divisions and could shift the regional balance of power. Iraq’s three main ethnic and […]
Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria after rocket fire Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time in the most extensive military exchange ever between the two adversaries. It was the heaviest […]
H.R. McMaster’s father died in a Philadelphia nursing home. A nurse has been charged in his death. A nurse in Pennsylvania has been charged in the death of former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s father for failing to provide proper care at the senior living facility where the 84-year-old […]
A former NFL player was arrested after he said police mistook a phone for a gun. The officer has been fired. A police officer in the Atlanta suburbs has been fired after an internal investigation found he used unnecessary force in the arrest of a black man for possessing a […]
Thousands of Facebook ads bought by Russians to fool U.S. voters released by Congress Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released thousands of Russian Facebook ads on Thursday, offering the public its first in-depth look at the troubling messages used to heighten tensions among Americans during and after the 2016 […]
Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending before the federal government […]
Military investigation of Niger disaster finds numerous failures in planning A months-long military investigation of a disastrous 2017 mission in Niger found that multiple individual and institutional failures contributed to a chain of events culminating in a militant ambush that left four Americans dead. Senior officials, in a summary of […]
Trump unloads on Homeland Security secretary in lengthy immigration tirade President Trump berated Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a dispiriting Cabinet meeting on immigration Wednesday, according to three administration officials, but her colleagues denied reports that she has threatened to quit. Trump lashed out at his Cabinet, and Nielsen […]
Mets bat out of order in first inning against Reds, go on to lose 2-1 in 10 innings The New York Mets’ downward spiral continued with a Little League blunder Wednesday afternoon in Cincinnati when they batted out of order in the first inning against the Reds. The lineup handed […]
