Month: November 2018

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary James Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of active duty troops to the border with Mexico Wednesday, calling it “a moral and ethical mission to support our border patrolmen.” While visiting [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — In some of the strongest language the U.S. has used with Myanmar’s top civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, Vice President Mike Pence urged her to free two Reuters journalists detained by the [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — Wednesday morning began quietly, but by the evening Israel had a new defense minister: Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is already Israel’s prime minister, foreign minister and communications chief. He grabbed yet another title after [Read More…]

Missouri State Highway Patrol(ST. LOUIS) — A St. Louis ballet dancer was mysteriously found dead in a rural Missouri lake after police spotted her car abandoned nearby, authorities said. The body of Raffaella Stroik, 23, [Read More…]

BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — Theresa May was meeting her Cabinet ministers on Wednesday after news emerged that the European Union and the United Kingdom had signed off on a draft withdrawal agreement about the terms [Read More…]

Santa Ana Police Department(SANTA ANA, Calif.) — Police in California are seeking the public’s assistance to find a woman accused of attacking a McDonald’s manager in Santa Ana — allegedly over an insufficient amount of [Read More…]

Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Federal authorities have subpoenaed the social media company Snap Inc in an inquiry that appears to focus on Snap’s March, 2017 initial public offering, the company confirmed to [Read More…]

Missouri State Highway Patrol(ST. LOUIS) — Investigators are searching for a missing St. Louis ballet dancer after her car was mysteriously found abandoned in rural Missouri, authorities said. Raffaella Stroik, 23, was last seen Monday [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The makers of e-cigarettes are facing new government restrictions on how the popular liquid nicotine products can be advertised and sold, with a top federal regulator making clear that industry hasn’t done enough [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — A Paradise, California, couple made a harrowing escape from the deadly Camp Fire with their four young children, describing it as driving “through hell.” When the blaze neared, Michelle and Daniel Simmons [Read More…]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARADISE, Calif.) — A Paradise, California, couple made a harrowing escape from the deadly Camp Fire with their four young children, describing it as driving “through hell.” When the blaze neared, Michelle and Daniel Simmons [Read More…]

Apple(MOSCOW) — A group of people on Tuesday dragged an entire bathtub full of coins to a shopping mall in Moscow to buy an iPhone XS. A video posted on Instagram early Wednesday showed the [Read More…]

Xinhua/Zhao Hanrong via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday declared a public health emergency in California, where at least 50 people have died from multiple wildfires ravaging [Read More…]