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LaToya Ratlief was teargassed, then shot in the face with rubber bullets in Florida while protesting George Floyd’s murder. Photograph: Jeffery A Salter/Jeffery Salter Five years ago, on 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. During an attempted arrest, Chauvin […]
Two staff members of Israel’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead outside the district’s Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday night, officials said. A suspect was taken into custody, Washington Police Chief Pamela Smith said at a news conference. He was identified as Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago. Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations called the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Houthi rebels in Yemen have shot down seven U.S. Reaper drones in less than six weeks, a loss of aircraft worth more than $200 million in what is becoming the most dramatic cost to the Pentagon of the military campaign against the Iran-backed militants. According to defense officials, three of the drones […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. man hijacked a small plane in Belize on Thursday, stabbing two passengers and a pilot, before one of the stabbed passengers fatally shot him, officials in Belize and the United States said. The plane then landed safely. The Tropic Air plane was carrying 14 passengers and two crew members, […]
For many years, strife-torn Somalia has struggled with food insecurity and famine-like conditions. Ironically, the country’s alarming circumstances are reminiscent of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, when the US under the aegis of UN stepped in to arrest the spreading famine in one of the poorest countries but ended up losing two Black Hawk choppers and […]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing for Ukraine, and Kyiv signaled that it was open to a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Russia, pending Moscow . . .
The White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2008. Ron Edmonds/AP hide caption toggle caption Ron Edmonds/AP A man who was brandishing a firearm in Washington, D.C., was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House on Sunday morning, the Secret Service said. The man, who is thought to have been traveling from Indiana, had […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man who admitted to shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell has died before his sentencing, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester pleaded guilty last Friday to felony assault in connection with the April 2023 shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl. Yarl, who survived gunshot wounds to the head and arm, has […]
An 86-year-old Missouri man who admitted to shooting a Black teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell has died before his sentencing, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Andrew Lester pleaded guilty last Friday to felony assault in connection with the April 2023 shooting of then-16-year-old Ralph Yarl. Yarl, who survived gunshot wounds to the head and arm, has […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An 86-year-old Missouri man who pleaded guilty to shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell by mistake has died ahead of his sentencing, prosecutors said Wednesday. Andrew Lester, who is white, pleaded guilty on Friday to felony assault for the shooting of Ralph Yarl, who was 16 years old at the […]