Tillerson bids farewell to a ‘mean-spirited town’ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appealed to State Department employees on Thursday to maintain their integrity and to be kind in a “mean-spirited town” as he bid farewell to the staff he led for barely a year. Tillerson urged a few hundred employees […]
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Protest over fatal police shooting delays NBA game in Sacramento Hundreds of protesters formed a human chain across the entrance to a sports arena in downtown Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday evening, in reaction to Sunday’s fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man. The protesters chanted, “Don’t shoot, it’s a […]
Feds tracked Austin bomber after FedEx camera got his plate, congressman says When the Austin bomber went to a FedEx store Sunday to ship two more of his package bombs, he made the mistake of parking within view of a surveillance camera, a US congressman told CNN. The license plate […]
Plastic patch in Pacific Ocean growing rapidly, study shows A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly, according to a new scientific estimate. Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” between California and Hawaii. This figure is […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has […]
16-year-old girl wounded in Maryland high school shooting to be taken off life support, family says Police are investigating a “prior relationship” between the gunman who wounded two students inside his Maryland high school Tuesday morning and a female victim. The shooter died during a confrontation with a school resource […]
Karen McDougal tells CNN Trump once tried to pay her after sex Donald Trump once tried to offer Karen McDougal money after they had been intimate, the former Playboy model told Anderson Cooper Thursday in an exclusive interview on CNN. “After we had been intimate, he tried to pay me, […]
Lawsuit Kindergartners sexually assaulted classmate A kindergarten student at a Grandville Public Schools Elementary School was sexually assaulted by other kindergarten students during free time more than three years ago, according to a lawsuit filed in Grand Rapids Federal Court. 24 Hour News 8 is not naming the children involved […]
IS suicide bomber kills 33 as Afghans celebrate new year An Islamic State group suicide bomber struck on the road to a Shiite shrine in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least 33 people as Afghans celebrated the Persian new year, authorities said. Wahid Majro, spokesman for The Public Health […]
Pope confirms plans to visit Dublin for August family rally Pope Francis has confirmed he plans a brief trip to Ireland in August to attend a big Catholic family rally. Francis made the long-awaited announcement at the end of his weekly general audience Wednesday, saying he intends to go to […]
