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Hate crimes declined slightly in 2018, the FBI says in a new report. But crimes targeting people — as opposed to property — surged dramatically, as did crimes against Latinos.
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Fires were burning into Sydney’s suburbs, with New South Wales under a weeklong state of emergency. Some were told to shelter in place because there’s no time to flee the flames. -
There are at least 1,688 high hazard dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition in 44 states and Puerto Rico, an Associated Press investigation has found. California is home to six.
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Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Meet the ‘Dreamers’ Jirayut “New” Latthivongskorn graduated from UC Berkeley with honors, earned a master’s degree from Harvard in public health and a doctor of medicine from UC San Francisco.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announces that three members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network have been released “conditionally in exchange” for a U.S. and an Australian professor.
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Key dates in the legal fight over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
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The Lebanese pound, long a symbol of stability after civil war, is faltering.
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Images of the silver-backed chevrotain, or Vietnamese mouse deer — the world’s smallest hoofed mammal, the size of a rabbit — were taken last year.
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Two trains collided after approaching each other on the same track about 50 miles east of the capital, Dhaka. Authorities said one driver ignored a signal.
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Israel killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza early Tuesday in a resumption of pinpointed targeting that threatens a fierce round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants.
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Jimmy Carter was admitted to a hospital Monday evening for a procedure to relieve pressure on his brain, caused by bleeding due to his recent falls, his spokeswoman said.
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Noel Ignatiev, a historian who wrote “How the Irish Became White” and co-edited the journal Race Traitor, dies at 78.
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The proposed process was deemed inadequate, partly because it would rely on current legislators who are viewed with suspicion by protesters.
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The Chinese government wants to implement its own version of one of the U.S.'s proudest legacies — a national park system.
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The double-murder case of Ron Lafferty, a Utah death-row inmate, was featured in Jon Krakauer’s book “Under the Banner of Heaven.”
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Bolivia suddenly enters an era of political uncertainty with the resignation of Evo Morales after a push by the military and weeks of massive protests.
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Singles Day was a temporary relief to retailers as Chinese consumers, anxious over slowing economic growth and the tariff war, tighten their belts.
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Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: TOP STORIES Fallout in the Marshall Islands Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands.
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Brexit is the big question in Britain’s upcoming election. To champion that cause, Prime Minister Boris Johnson plays to populism.
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Ex-felons in Florida had their right to vote restored through Amendment 4. Within months, Florida’s Legislature tried to limit the effect of the initiative.
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There are at least 1,688 high hazard dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition in 44 states and Puerto Rico, an Associated Press investigation has found. California is home to six.
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Ex-felons in Florida had their right to vote restored through Amendment 4. Within months, Florida’s Legislature tried to limit the effect of the initiative.
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Fires were burning into Sydney’s suburbs, with New South Wales under a weeklong state of emergency. Some were told to shelter in place because there’s no time to flee the flames.
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Alan Jones witnessed the first U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands. He was shaken by the terror of the explosion and believes the radiation exposure may have plagued him for years.
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Hate crimes declined slightly in 2018, the FBI says in a new report. But crimes targeting people — as opposed to property — surged dramatically, as did crimes against Latinos.
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Fifty years later, the Manson “family” murders remain seared into the collective memory of Los Angeles. The question, which persists to this day, is why?
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Charles Manson and his “family” committed heinous crimes across Los Angeles in 1969. Here is a timeline of what led up to the murders and the aftermath.
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Followers of Charles Manson were tied to the deaths of nine people in the summer of 1969.
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