An explosion struck the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister on Tuesday as he was making a rare visit to Gaza, in what is being called an assassination attempt that his Fatah party is blaming on Hamas. The blast further complicated what already is a troubled reconciliation process between Gaza’s… Read More
Terror in Texas! Deadly bombings ROCK Lone Star state
Investigators believe a package bomb that killed a teenager and wounded a woman in Austin on Monday is linked to a similar bombing that killed a man elsewhere in the city this month — and they’re scrambling to solve the mystery. The explosion Monday happened inside of a home near… Read More
Britain officially blames Russia for INSANE chemical attack
Britain’s prime minister said Monday that it’s “highly likely” that Russia was responsible for poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal with a military-grade nerve agent in southwestern England last week. Theresa May said that Russian state involvement, if proven, would be considered an “unlawful use of force by the Russian state against… Read More
[Weather alert] Northeast prepares for 3rd nor’easter
Winter-weary New Englanders are preparing for blizzard conditions, a foot or more of snow and high winds as the third major nor’easter in two weeks bears down on the Northeast. The National Weather Service on Monday issued a winter storm warning for much of New England and a winter weather… Read More
5 dead following helicopter crash into NYC river [video]
A helicopter crashed into New York City’s East River Sunday night and flipped upside down in the water, killing all five passengers aboard, officials said. A spokesman for the NYPD confirmed the deaths to The Associated Press early Monday. Video taken by a bystander and posted on Twitter shows the… Read More
Experts: Amelia Earhart’s body found!
Bones found in 1940 on a western Pacific Ocean island were quite likely to be remains from famed aviator Amelia Earhart, a new analysis concludes. The study and other evidence “point toward her rather strongly,” University of Tennessee anthropologist Richard Jantz said Thursday. Earhart disappeared during an attempted flight around… Read More
Ex-Trump aide arrives at court to testify before Mueller grand jury
A former Trump campaign aide arrived Friday at the federal courthouse in Washington for a scheduled grand jury appearance days after he defiantly insisted in a series of news interviews that he intended to defy a subpoena in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Sam Nunberg did not respond to… Read More
Officer arrested for assaulting jaywalking suspect!?
A white police officer whose body camera recorded him beating a black pedestrian he accused of jaywalking has been arrested on assault charges in North Carolina. Christopher Hickman was charged late Thursday with assault by strangulation, assault inflicting serious injury and communicating threats, according to the Buncombe County District Attorney’s… Read More
U.S. employers added over 313,000 jobs in February
U.S. employers went on a hiring binge in February, adding 313,000 jobs, the most in any month since July 2016, and drawing hundreds of thousands of people into the job market. At the same time, average wages rose 2.6 percent over the past 12 months, a slowdown from January’s accelerated… Read More
REMINDER: Daylight savings is Sunday
Time to set your clocks and watches one hour ahead. And maybe save some time to grouse about losing an hour’s sleep Saturday night. The shift from standard to daylight saving time officially comes at 2 a.m. Sunday across much of the country. Daylight will last longer into the evening… Read More