ISTANBUL – Turkey declared a national day of mourning Sunday after twin blasts in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded 155 others near a soccer stadium the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation confronting an array of security threats.
An explosion inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral killed at least 22 people and wounded 35, Egypt’s state television said, in the second deadly attack to hit the Egyptian capital in two days.
Amid the mainstream U.S. media’s current self-righteous frenzy against “fake news,” it’s worth recalling how the big newspapers destroyed Gary Webb, an honest journalist who exposed some hard truths about the Reagan administration’s collaboration with Nicaraguan Contra cocaine traffickers.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has gotten hold of a “mystery device” that thieves have been spotted on security cameras using to electronically open and start cars.
The wife of Pacific Investment Management Co. co-founder and billionaire Bill Gross is seeking a divorce after 31 years of marriage and their joint work on a charitable foundation that gave away almost $800 million.
At least 13 people were killed Saturday after a car bomb detonated in Istanbul Saturday night, shaking buildings in the area.
About 2,400 pounds of marijuana was seized off an abandoned boat at San Clemente State Beach this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said.
The Obama administration requested in April that a Kenyan Islamic terrorist, jailed at Guantanamo Bay since 2007 be transferred to an Israeli facility and tried by Israel, according to a Friday report in the Miami Herald.
