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Details Emerge About Maryland School Shooter's Final Moments

School buses, security and State Troopers are seen on March 20, 2018 at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland after a shooting at the school. Barnes ...

California county publishes inmate release dates

Others decried what they called a racist, anti-immigrant position aimed at gaining votes , not public safety. As of Monday, the Orange County Sheriff's Depa...

Retired US Supreme Court justice calls for repealing 2nd Amendment

Stevens was appointed by Republican President Gerald Ford in 1975, and retired from the High Court in 2010, two years after the Heller decision. One cavea...

Uber sells its SE Asia business to rival Grab

Integrating Uber's business into Grab's existing portfolio will help the O2O mobile platform lead the ride-hailing as well as food delivery market in Southe...

Trump privately pressing military to pay for border wall, sources say

And he's tweeted that building "a great Border Wall" is "all about National Defense" and called to "Build WALL through M!", meaning the military. The Was...

CNN Poll: Trump Grabs Highest Approval Mark Since April '17

Amid Trump's twin sex scandals, most Americans polled, 63%, believe the women accusing Trump of extramarital affairs, while only 21% believe Trump. Donald T...

Senator McConnell and Commissioner Quarles Announce Hemp Legislation

Brian Furnish, an eighth-generation tobacco farmer in Kentucky, has taken the plunge into hemp production. The DEA has maintained that CBDs are illegal, even ...

Palestinians arrested after crossing Gaza border into Israel

Palestinians from the Gaza Strip regularly try to cross into Israel. The large-scale drill is seen as a warning to Israel not to "interfere" with the protests...

District arms teachers with rocks in case of school shooter

According to the superintendent, throwing rocks is more effective than hiding under the desks and waiting for the attacker to open fire . Student Kayla Well...

Weird orange snow captivates skiers in eastern Europe

While the sight of burnt-orange snow is certainly odd, it's not something to fear as it all comes down to a unusual natural phenomenon that brought two of the...

Malaysia Government Proposes Anti-Fake News Bill in Parliament

In fact, some other countries have already realised that fake news is a global threat to the world of information, and needs to be tackled swiftly and effective...

Yemen's Houthi rebels fire missile at Riyadh

We "reserve the right to respond against Iran at the right time and right place", he added. "According to preliminary information, the interception resulted in ...

Killer Mike defends NRA membership as #BlackTwitter comes after him

Martin Luther King, when sitting down to the do the interview with "people who he might not always agree with". "I sat with a group called the National Rifle...

The Trump Administration Just Expelled 60 Russian Diplomats

Sanders said. Theresa May hailed the action as a message to Vladimir Putin's government that the west would "not tolerate Russia's continued attempts to f...

Siberia shopping mall fire kills dozens as rescuers search for missing children

Video posted on social media showed smoke billowing from windows as fire crews worked to evacuate the property. Local politician Anton Gorelkin said "fire exi...

UK's Johnson slams claims Brexit broke spending rules

Mr Parkinson said he had no responsibility for digital campaigning or donations on the Vote Leave campaign and was "confident that I stayed within the law and s...

Caller slams Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism accusations

Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for the "pain and hurt" caused by anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. Corbyn said he would meet Jewish community representatives...

Russian diplomats expulsion: US, Canada, 11 European Union countries announce sanctions

Twenty-eight European Union leaders sided with Britain's conclusion that it is "highly likely" that Russia is behind the attack on former Russian spy Sergei...

Korean official apparently visiting China

In Beijing , a vehicle with a diplomatic license plate of the North Korean Embassy was spotted Monday at the Great Hall of the People, a state building used fo...

Historic non-stop flight between Australia and United Kingdom ready for take off

To succeed, the route must defy the boom-and-bust commodities cycle that has preyed on Western Australia. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline h...

Poisoned Russian spy 'sought pardon from Putin'

Sergei Skripal , the former Russian spy poisoned in Britain, wrote to President Vladimir Putin several years ago asking for a pardon for selling secrets to Br...

Fruits And Nuts Are Among US Products At Risk Of Chinese Tariffs

China said Friday that it planned to raise tariffs on a $3 billion list of USA goods, including pork, apples and steel pipes in response to the steel and alum...

Dramatic VIDEO shows man jumping out of burning shopping mall in Russian Federation

Later, the death toll was confirmed by the Russian Investigative Committee. The country's Investigative Committee, which investigates high-profile crimes and ...

BSP ties till 2019, BJP's immoral win won't bite, says Mayawati

On Saturday, the BSP chief made a pointed reference to Adityanath handing out candies in celebration: "BJP leaders have been eating laddoos the whole night bu...

Thousands March for Our Lives in Parkland

Ottawa's rally was organized by students from high schools across the city. The organizer, Cameron Kasky, was responding to a claim in a recent National Rifle...

Islamic State claims attack in Afghanistan, provides no evidence: statement

The blast occurred at midday after two suicide bombers tried to enter Nabi-e-Akram Mosque in Chahr Su locality, Abdul Hai Walizada, an officer of Police Distric...

Trump Signing $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill, Averting A Government Shutdown

Trump lamented the "ridiculous situation that took place over the last week", pointing out that lawmakers had little time to read through the 2,232-page documen...

Iowa family of four found dead in Mexico killed by gas

The family was reportedly staying in a rental house they found through a vacation rental company. The Sharps had planned to return home Wednesday, family me...

2 lawyers not joining Trump legal team after all

The president's comments were reminiscent of his remarks earlier this month in response to claims of staff unhappiness that "everybody wants to work in the Whit...

Caldwell students hold kindness assembly to honor Parkland victims

At the other end of South Florida in Key West, Police Chief Donie Lee came out in solidarity with the march there: "These kids are making change", Lee said ,...

Earth Hour 2018: How Different Countries "Switched Off" For Environment

The movement of the Earth Hour began in 2007 in Australia, and it has now become a global campaign wherein non-essential lights are turned off at 8:30 PM on a...

Bombing Kills 2 in Egypt's Alexandria, Targets Security Chief

Multiple Egyptian sources, citing eyewitnesses, report that the bomb targeted the convoy of the security director of Alexandria, Major General Mustafa Nimr. Sin...

Public sector, rail workers strike in test for Macron

But Thursday's strike marked a new joint phase in trade union action - the first time civil servants and railway staff had joined forces against Macron. Bri...

Trump signs bill to keep gov't open through September

He pinned his signature mostly on ensuring US military forces have what they need. "My highest duty is to keep America safe". Trump repeatedly invoked the...

New England Patriots Fly Parkland Students to Rally

Robert Kraft (r.), seen here celebrating latest Super Bowl win with Donald Trump as the White House, used the Patriots plane to fly families of the Stoneman...