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WASHINGTON — The first U.S. death from swine flu has been confirmed — a 23-month-old child in Texas — amid increasing global anxiety over a health menace that authorities around the world are struggling to contain.
At least four people are reported to have been killed and several hurt in the Netherlands after a car careened into spectators watching a royal motorcade Thursday. A photographer said the car appeared to be deliberately driving at high speed toward an open bus carrying Queen Beatrixand her family in the western Dutch city of Apeldoorn.
ISLAMABAD — Senior American officials say they are increasingly concerned Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal may be at risk from a rising Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgency in the vulnerable country, the New York Times reported Monday.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Connecticut police have identified the victim of a shooting at a Wesleyan University bookstore as a student from Colorado. Police say Johanna Justin-Jinish of Timith, Colo., was shot several times Wednesday afternoon by a disguised gunman at the bookstore in downtown Middletown.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Dozens of homes have been destroyed by the wildfire raging in the hills above Santa Barbara, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday as firefighters prepared for another explosive afternoon.
Researchers at the University of Glamorgan in Scotland recently purchased 300 random hard disks at computer fairs and online auctions in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, and Australia, and found personal or sensitive data on 34 percent of the drives.
Whenever there's a threat of epidemic, alongside early deaths comes the casualty of information. Asian governments at least learned from their recent experience of bird flu and SARS the importance of not covering up outbreaks. The still open question is how to assess warnings that health professionals make based on inadequate information.
The US Department of Homeland Security has asked for $918 million to support its infrastructure protection programs. As part of President Barack Obama's fiscal budget for 2010, funding for the office of Cybersecurity and Communications would increase to $401 million in order ‘to increase the resiliency and security of private and public sector cyber infrastructure.'
The hunt for a sniper shooting at cars along a northern California freeway intensified as fresh clues emerged in the case, according to police.The California Highway Patrol said Wednesday they have uncovered new evidence connected to the nighttime shootings along Interstate 680 that have been reported over the last two months, according to FOX San Francisco affiliate KTVU.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration seized 351 pounds of crystal methamphetamine from two Gwinnett County homes, authorities announced Wednesday. The bust, made earlier this week, had a wholesale value of about $6 million, said DEA special agent in charge Rodney Benson.
LOS ANGELES — A moderate earthquake jolted the Los Angeles region late Sunday, shattering glass, setting off alarms and fraying nerves. There were no reports of any major injuries or damage. The magnitude-4.7 quake hit at 8:39 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles
WASHINGTON - Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday that he was concerned that Guantanamo Bay detainees could support terrorism and even radicalize other inmates in high-security prisons if sent to the United States.
NEW YORK — DEVELOPING: Four men sought to commit jihad when they plotted to bomb a Jewish temple and gun down military planes in upstate New York, the New York City police commissioner said Thursday.
A bomb blast outside a Starbucks coffee shop rattled the early morning Memorial day quiet of Manhattan's Upper East Side today, shattering windows and triggering the evacuation of 25 apartments.
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two vapor leaks were found Tuesday in separate igloos where thousands of Cold War-era chemical weapons are stored in Kentucky, but Army officials said that they posed little danger outside the facility. The leaked materials were mustard gas and sarin, a highly toxic nerve agent.
Reporting from Washington -- The FBI and Justice Department plan to significantly expand their role in global counter-terrorism operations, part of a U.S. policy shift that will replace a CIA-dominated system of clandestine detentions and interrogations with one built around transparent investigations and prosecutions.
A New York City police officer who had just gotten off duty was fatally shot late Thursday in East Harlem by a fellow officer who mistook him for an armed criminal, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said. The officer who was killed, Omar J. Edwards, 25, a two-year veteran who was assigned to patrol housing projects.
Princeton University is on lockdown after two people holding what appeared to be guns were spotted on campus, school officials said. Police took two suspects into custody just before 11:30 a.m. and are possibly looking for others. No shots had been fired, but the university remains on lockdown while police investigate.
An al-Qaeda recruiting video indicates that the terrorist organization hopes to sneak a biological weapon into the United States through its border with Mexico, the Washington Times reported today.
The Obama administration is embracing the dark side to help it fight cyberattacks. On Friday, a well-known hacker was one of 16 people named to the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council (HSAC).
Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on board the Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board, it has emerged.
A gunman opened fire inside the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, wounding a security guard before other officers returned fire, officials said. The gunman has been identified as James Von Brunn, a man with apparent links to the white supremacist movement.
GENEVA — The World Health Organization told its member nations it was declaring a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years — as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere.
Recently there is new controversy regarding who is a threat? Protective agencies are charged with creating "assessments" of what constitutes a threat to our safety. These agencies include the Pentagon's National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security which oversees the Secret Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Air Marshals and The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC).
A federal judge in Atlanta convicted Syed Haris Ahmed of conspiring to support terrorists, four years after he and a confederate traveled to the District to videotape possible targets and sent the footage to "jihadi brothers" overseas, prosecutors say.
TOKYO — North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
ROCKFORD, Ill. — Tank cars loaded with thousands of gallons of highly flammable ethanol exploded in flames as a freight train derailed, killing one person and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of nearby homes.
Transportation investigators Wednesday discovered "anomalies" in an essential control circuit of a track where a fatal crash between two Washington subway trains killed nine people.
U.S. Marshals, at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, today seized drug products manufactured by Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd. (Caraco), at the company’s Michigan facilities in Detroit, Farmington Hills, and Wixom.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The death toll from a chain-reaction accident on an Oklahoma turnpike this weekend has risen to 10.
Sunday, June 28, 2009; 5:08 PM
MOSCOW — Thousands of troops, backed by hundreds of tanks, artillery and other heavy weaponry, began rumbling through the North Caucasus on Monday, as Russia began its largest military exercises since last year's war with Georgia.
NEW YORK -- Historic swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to potential imitators and to victims who demanded harsh punishment.
BAGHDAD — Iraq officially took control of its fate Tuesday as the U.S. pulled its combat troops out of Baghdad and other cities and towns, handing over security responsibilities to Iraqi forces.
VIAREGGIO, Italy — A freight train derailed in the middle of the night in northern Italy, setting off an explosion and a fire that killed at least 13 people and sent 50 others to the hospital, many with severe burns, officials said Tuesday.
ADELPHI, Md. - Government experts say prescription drugs like Vicodin and Percocet that combine a popular painkiller with stronger narcotics should be eliminated because of their role in deadly overdoses.
North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles within four hours on Thursday, Pentagon officials confirmed to FOX News. While the surface-to-ship missiles, with a range of less than 62 miles, are not capable of reaching Japan, the test-fires are a move that aggravates the already high tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test and U.N. sanctions imposed as punishment.
United States Marines storming into southern Afghanistan are facing a "hell of a fight" in some districts while others are "suspiciously" quiet, their commander has said. Published: 1:56PM BST 03 Jul 2009
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday that she is stepping down at the end of the month, setting up a potential run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Friday, July 03, 2009
WASHINGTON — Plunging squarely into one of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. suggested on Sunday that the United States would not stand in the way of Israeli military action aimed at the Iranian nuclear program. July 5, 2009
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- U.S. President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev concluded a series of agreements Monday -- including one on nuclear arms reduction -- as part of a broader effort to strengthen ties between the one-time Cold War rivals.
URUMQI, China - China's president cut short a G-8 summit trip to rush home Wednesday after ethnic tensions soared in Xinjiang territory, and the government flooded the area with security forces in a bid to quell emotions in the wake of a massive riot that left 156 dead.
WASHINGTON - Last week, German authorities discovered that groups of terrorists may have been dispatched from training bases in Pakistan to launch crippling attacks.
Automaker closes deal with government. CEO Henderson: 'We'll work hard to repay the trust, and the money, that so many have invested in GM.'
July 10, 2009: 11:21 AM ET
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices involving the CIA, and is expected to make a decision in a few weeks, a Justice Department official said on Sunday.
July 12 (Reuters)
WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative terminated by Director Leon Panetta was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill Al Qaeda operatives, according to former intelligence officials familiar with the matter.
Monday, July 13, 2009
WASHINGTON -- A secret Central Intelligence Agency initiative axed by Director Leon Panetta examined how to assassinate members of al Qaeda with hit teams on the ground, according to current and former national-security officials familiar with the matter.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian passenger plane carrying nearly 170 people crashed shortly after takeoff Wednesday, smashing into a field northwest of the capital and shattering to pieces. State television said all on board were killed.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
WASHINGTON — A police chase near the U.S. Capitol ended in a chaotic scene Wednesday evening with police shooting and killing a fleeing man after he pulled a gun on officers.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
SHAOGUAN, China - 40 young men and women from the far western region of Xinjiang, arrived at the Early Light Toy Factory here in May, bringing their buoyant music and speaking a language that was incomprehensible to their fellow Han Chinese workers. Thursday, July 16, 2009
JAKARTA, Indonesia — At least eight Americans were wounded in a pair of homicide attacks on luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital, a U.S. official said Friday. Friday, July 17, 2009
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The lone surviving suspect captured during last year's terrorist assault on Mumbai named a leading Pakistani militant as the mastermind behind the attacks in a surprise courtroom confession on Monday.
Monday, July 20, 2009
(CNN) -- At least 24 people have been killed and hundreds rendered homeless in the worst floods to hit land-locked Mongolia in 40 years, emergency officials said Tuesday.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
PHUKET, Thailand — The United States is concerned about the possible transfer of nuclear technology from North Korea to military-ruled Myanmar, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
U.S. officials believe Usama bin Laden's son, Saad bin Laden, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
NEWARK, N.J. - The mayors of two New Jersey cities, a state legislator and several rabbis were arrested Thursday in connection with a major corruption and international money-laundering conspiracy probe. Some of the suspects were also allegedly involved in an illegal human organ-selling ring.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
NEW YORK - When the American-born al-Qaida recruit Bryant Neal Vinas was captured in Pakistan late last year, he wasn't whisked off to a military prison or a secret CIA facility in another country to be interrogated.
Monday, July 27, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. - A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said Monday.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
(CNN) -- The federal government will give $1 billion in grants to law enforcement agencies in every state to pay for the hiring and rehiring of law enforcement officers, Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan -- U.S. military leaders have concluded that their war effort in Afghanistan has been too focused on hunting Al Qaeda, and have begun to shift Predator drone aircraft to the fight against the Taliban and other militants in order to prevent the country from slipping deeper into anarchy.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Three Americans were among five foreign troops killed in Afghanistan on Sunday, continuing a deadly trend ahead of a presidential election this month.
August 2, 2009
Australian police arrested four men they said were linked to a Somali militant group on Tuesday, accusing them of planning a suicide attack on an army base and raising fears the al Qaeda-linked rebels were seeking targets outside Africa.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
BURBANK, California (CNN) -- Laura Ling on Wednesday expressed the shock she and Euna Lee felt when former President Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea, to secure the two journalists' release.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- With hundreds of protesters gathering and riot police out in force on the streets of Tehran, hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the oath of office Wednesday, beginning a second term in a bitterly divided Iran.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan's Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, who unleashed a fearsome campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations that made him the country's most-wanted man, was killed in a U.S. missile strike, an aide said Friday. August 7, 2009
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Divers will make another attempt Monday to find two remaining victims from the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River.
Monday, August 10, 2009
The United States has placed 50 suspected Afghan drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban on a Pentagon target list to be captured or killed, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing a Congressional report to be released this week.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Kuwait City, Kuwait (AHN) - Kuwaiti authorities have arrested six locals believed to be members of the terror group al-Qaeda, after stopping an alleged plot to bomb a United States military base. According to state-run media, the men were planning to attack 'Camp Arifjan' - a U.S. Army-run facility that also hosts troops from Australia, Poland, Romania and the United Kingdom.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
(CNN) -- Hundreds of inmates using pipes and shanks as weapons trashed a California prison, burning a courtyard, ripping beds to shreds and tearing bathroom sinks from walls, a new video of the weekend riot's aftermath shows.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
MOSCOW, (Reuters) — Pirates probably hijacked a merchant ship which disappeared after sailing through the English Channel last month, its operator said on Wednesday.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea followed recent conciliatory gestures toward the U.S. and South Korea with a return to threats Sunday, warning them of "merciless retaliation" over sanctions imposed on its government, and nuclear attacks in response to any atomic provocation.
Monday, August 17, 2009
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- A Russian-crewed cargo ship that went missing for more than two weeks was hijacked by pirates, Russia's defense minister said Tuesday.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
BAGHDAD - A truck bomb tore through Iraq's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, knocking out concrete slabs and windows and leaving a mass of charred cars outside as a wave of explosions around Baghdad killed at least 75 people.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $50,000 reward for a Seattle man it says is a domestic terrorist. But that has not kept him from keeping his pilot’s license or from trying to sell his airplane online, apparently because the Transportation Security Administration has not compared the F.B.I.’s wanted list with the Federal Aviation Administration’s list of licensed pilots.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
GREENOCK, Scotland (CNN) -- The only man ever convicted over the Lockerbie passenger plane bombing is to be released and allowed to return to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill, Scotland's justice minister said Thursday.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators to question key terrorism suspects, part of a broader effort to revamp U.S. policy on detention and interrogation, senior administration officials said Sunday.
Monday, August 24, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The H1N1 flu virus could cause up to 90,000 U.S. deaths, mainly among children and young adults, if it resurges this fall as expected, according to a report released Monday by a presidential advisory panel.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Barack Obama is close to brokering an Israeli-Palestinian deal that will allow him to announce a resumption of the long-stalled Middle East peace talks before the end of next month, according to US, Israeli, Palestinian and European officials.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Fire officials late Sunday identified two firefighters who died accidentally while battling a fast-spreading wildfire in Los Angeles County.
Monday, August 31, 2009
LOS ANGELES — The California State Assembly narrowly passed legislation on Monday to reduce the state prison population by 27,000 inmates and the state corrections budget by about $1 billion.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran — Six countries trying to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program are to meet in Germany Wednesday, a day after the Islamic regime said it would present a new package of proposals.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
(CNN) -- Former "Manson Family" member Susan Atkins, who stabbed actress Sharon Tate to death more than 40 years ago and now is terminally ill, was denied parole Wednesday, prison officials said.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
BEIJING, Sep. 8, 2009 (Reuters) — A gas explosion at a coal mine in China's central Henan province early on Tuesday killed 35 people and 44 others were missing, the government's work safety watchdog said.
KABUL, Afghanistan - British commandos freed a New York Times reporter early Wednesday from Taliban kidnappers, but one of the commandos and a Times translator were killed during the rescue, officials said.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
A Bolivian religious fanatic hijacked a passenger jet from the Mexican resort city of Cancun after receiving a divine revelation, selecting the date 9-9-09 because it is the satanic number 666 turned upside down, Mexico's security secretary said Wednesday.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned the American people over their government's close ties with Israel in an apparently new audio tape posted on an Islamist website Monday.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Anti-terror raids conducted in New York City early Monday morning were part of an investigation into an Al Qaeda associate, law enforcement agents told FOXNews.com.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
(CNN) -- Twenty-three suspects, including nine American Airlines employees, were arrested Tuesday for allegedly transporting nearly $20 million worth of cocaine on flights into and out of Puerto Rico, federal authorities said.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The White House will shelve Bush administration plans to build a missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic, a move likely to cheer Moscow and roil the security debate in Europe.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The central figure in what authorities describe as a widening inquiry into a possible plot to detonate explosives in the United States had been trained in weapons and explosives in Pakistan and, according to court papers released Sunday, had made nine pages of handwritten notes on how to make and handle bombs.
Monday, September 21, 2009
(CNN) -- Investigators are looking for about a dozen more people in connection with a wide-ranging terror investigation that has already netted arrests in Colorado and New York City, a source familiar with the investigation said Tuesday.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
ATLANTA — Rescuers glided through several city neighborhoods in fishing boats and canoes on Tuesday, searching water-logged houses for trapped residents and abandoned belongings, after heavy rains flooded Georgia and other parts of the Southeast. The deluge left eight people dead, dozens stranded and thousands without electricity.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
NEW YORK - Hundreds of federal agents and police officers widened their investigation of a potential terrorism plot involving an alleged al-Qaida associate on Wednesday as questions lingered about whether early missteps might have made the chore harder.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
(CNN) -- Iran test fired two types of long-range missiles on Monday, including the two-stage Sajil, state-run Press TV reported.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michele M. Leonhart, the Acting Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Michael J. Folmar, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the Miami Division of the FBI, announced today the unsealing of two indictments charging a total of 12 members and associates of the 57th Front of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), a Colombian terrorist group, with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and taking a U.S. citizen hostage.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
APIA, Samoa — A powerful earthquake in the South Pacific hurled a massive tsunami at the shores of Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday local time, flattening villages and sweeping cars and people out to sea, leaving at least 99 dead and dozens missing.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
HANOI/MANILA, Sep. 29, 2009 (Reuters) — A powerful typhoon slammed into central Vietnam on Tuesday, killing 32 people and flooding towns and villages along the country's long coastline after leaving a trail of destruction in the Philippines.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Another strong earthquake rocked Indonesia early Thursday as the Southeast Asian nation was reeling from an earlier jolt that killed more than 500 people and caused widespread destruction.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium to Russia to be turned into fuel for a small reactor that produces medical isotopes, senior American and other Western officials said.
Friday, October 2, 2009
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2009 (Reuters) — Healthcare workers in Indiana and Tennessee will be among the first to get swine flu vaccines in the United States on Monday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Monday, October 5, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a rare joint interview, said Monday that the United States is committed to a regional strategy to build long-standing relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Tuesday thanked counterterrorism employees who work to prevent attacks on the United States and its allies, crediting them with "making real progress" in disrupting al-Qaida and other extremist networks.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
(CNN) -- A high-ranking al Qaeda leader has called on China's minority Uyghurs to prepare for a holy war against the Chinese government.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The request for troops sent to President Barack Obama by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan includes three different options, with the largest alternative including a request for more than 60,000 troops, according to a U.S. official familiar with the document.
Friday, October 9, 2009
MOSCOW - With an ambitious new pipeline planned to run along the bed of the Baltic Sea, the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom is driving a political wedge between Eastern and Western Europe.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said terrorists with al-Qaeda leanings are in the U.S. and that the threat of attack “is always with us.”
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Millions of people throughout California have signed up to take part in a statewide earthquake disaster drill billed as the largest such exercise in U.S. history.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Air Force crews launched a search for an F-16 fighter pilot off the coast of South Carolina after two jets collided Thursday night.
Friday, October 16, 2009
BOSTON — A 27-year-old Massachusetts man has been charged with conspiring with others to support and plan terror attacks in and outside the United States, including plots to attack U.S. shopping malls and U.S. military in Iraq.
As President Barack Obama declared swine flu a national emergency Saturday, thousands of Chicagoans waited in line for hours for the vaccine and many others were turned away after the city's limited supply ran out.Sunday October 25, 2009
High winds and dry weather drove a fire toward homes in the Santa Cruz mountains Sunday, forcing about 85 people to evacuate and sending scores of firefighters and other resources to the area.
Monday October 26, 2009
BAGHDAD -- The Islamic State of Iraq, a Sunni extremist group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq, has claimed responsibility for twin bombings Sunday that targeted key government buildings and killed nearly 160 Iraqis, according to a claim posted online.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2009
Officials in California were searching Friday for survivors of a midair collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter — but the nine people on board the two aircraft were feared dead.
Oct. 30, 2009
A warship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center has arrived in New York City.
November 2, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday, but transportation engineers said their work may not be finished.
November 3, 2009
The families of three North Dakota college students whose bodies were pulled from a rural pond Tuesday will visit the site today where their daughters died after placing frantic phone calls for help.
November 4, 2009
Israel is displaying a vast array of what it says are Iranian weapons from a ship captured on the high seas.
November 5, 2009
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.
November 6, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — A recording of a six-minute call to emergency dispatchers obtained Thursday by the Associated Press details the moments after a 10-year-old boy allegedly shot his father in the head with a shotgun.
November 6, 2009
Three American hikers who have been detained in Iran after crossing into the country from Iraq have been charged with espionage, according to reports by Iran's State News Agency.
November 9, 2009
KABUL — NATO officials say 250 tons of suspected bomb-making material has been seized in a raid in Kandahar, a stronghold of Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan.
November 10, 2009
(CNN) -- Nations honored those who sacrificed their lives in wars on Wednesday, in many cases for the first time without any surviving veterans of World War I.
November 11, 2009
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. - Coast Guard
boats, planes and helicopters searched the roiling ocean off Cape May on Thursday for three commercial fishermen whose boat sank, and colleagues of the missing men prayed for a miracle.
November 12, 2009
Suicide car bomber attacks military convoy on outskirts of Kabul, wounding 24
November 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - In courtrooms barred to the public, dozens of terror suspects are pleading for their freedom from the Guantanamo Bay prison, sometimes even testifying on their own behalf by video from the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
November 16, 2009
United Nations and Iranian officials have been secretly negotiating a deal to persuade world powers to lift sanctions and allow Tehran to retain the bulk of its nuclear program in return for cooperation with U.N. inspectors.
November 17, 2009
(CNN) -- The U.S.-flagged cargo ship Maersk Alabama, which played a central role in a bloody hijacking drama last spring, was attacked again Wednesday.
November 18, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- A computer system in Atlanta, Georgia, that pilots use to file flight plans was not working properly Thursday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
November 19, 2009
(CNN) -- Authorities arrested dozens of angry students at the University of California, Davis, campus late Thursday after they refused to vacate the school's administration building in protest of a 32-percent tuition hike.
November 20, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel.
November 23, 2009
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A train derailment in southwest Houston dumps cars full of coal and other substances
November 23, 2009
LONDON - Nuclear power — long considered environmentally hazardous — is emerging as perhaps the world's most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the backing of even some green activists who once campaigned against it.
November 24, 2009
Looking the Part, Michaele and Tareq Salahi Slipped Past Secret Service
November 26, 2009
JUPITER, Fla. — Investigators in Florida alerted Michigan authorities to be on the lookout Saturday for a man accused of shooting four relatives to death after a Thanksgiving dinner in South Florida.
November 28, 2009
TVER, Russia — A day after investigators determined that the deadly crash of a luxury train was caused by a homemade bomb, relatives of victims arrived in this regional capital on Sunday to carry out the tearful process of identifying the remains.
November 29, 2009
LAKEWOOD, Wash. — SEATTLE — A sheriff's spokesman says authorities in Washington state believe the man sought in the slaying of four police officers is still alive and has been aided by a network of friends and family.
November 30, 2009
Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- The suspect in the deaths of four police officers in Lakewood, Washington, had a weapon from one of the slain officers when he was shot and killed Tuesday, police said.
December 1, 2009
ISLAMABAD — Police say a homicide bomber struck Pakistan's Navy headquarters in the capital city of Islamabad on Wednesday, killing at least two people.
December 2, 2009
TACOMA, Wash. — A suspect accused of helping Maurice Clemmons flee after the gunman massacred four suburban police officers could face trial as an accomplice to murder.
December 3, 2009
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The Minnesota Department of Health is warning of a fraudulent emails about a CDC sponsored state vaccination program.
December 4, 2009
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Ten people were killed -- including two police officers -- when a suicide bomber detonated outside a district courthouse in Peshawar on Monday, officials said.
December 7, 2009
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 112 people were killed in central Baghdad and more than 400 were wounded early Tuesday when suicide bombers exploded their cars in a series of five terrorist attacks, Iraqi authorities said.
December 8, 2009
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Five U.S. citizens were detained in a raid on a house in the east of the Pakistan, Pakistani police said.
December 9, 2009
NEW YORK - A panhandler opened fire on police in busy Times Square on Thursday afternoon and was shot to death by an officer near the famed Marriott Marquis hotel, police said.
December 10, 2009
WASHINGTON - Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities.
December 11, 1009
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Monday it would try three Americans jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program
December 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - White House plans to announce Tuesday that the government will acquire an underutilized state prison in rural Illinois to be the new home for a limited number of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo.
December 15, 2009
EVERETT, Wash. — The weather in the Pacific Northwest cooperated with Boeing's plans to finally get its new 787 jetliner into the air Tuesday, more than two years after it had intended.
December 15, 2009
Iran has successfully test-fired a long range, improved Sejil 2 missile, the country's state television has reported.
December 16, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones...
December 17, 2009
COPENHAGEN - A diplomatic frenzy enveloped the final day of the U.N. climate conference Friday, with President Barack Obama twice meeting privately with China's premier as drafts of a proposed international climate framework competed for attention.
December 18, 2009
Millions of East Coast commuters returned to work Monday over slick roads and icy sidewalks after a weekend winter storm dropped record snowfall, interrupted holiday shopping and stranded travelers.
December 21, 2009
Washington State Patrol and Lakewood police officers light flares at a roadblock near the scene of a shooting that involved two Pierce County Sheriff's deputies, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009, near Eatonville. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
December 22, 2009
DENVER — A major winter storm is promising to bring a white Christmas to parts of the West and Midwest, though countless holiday travelers faced tough driving conditions and scattered flight delays Wednesday that only looked to get worse. December 23, 2009
The terror suspect who tried to blow up a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day is being held in a federal prison near Detroit as airports remain on high alert and the U.S. government tries to determine if the man is was one in a series of possible attackers.
December 28, 2009
Dutch airport authorities want the EU to make passenger scanners mandatory, arguing that they might have stopped a man who tried to blow up a US airliner.
December 29, 2009
The closure of three embassies in Yemen was prompted by Yemeni security forces losing track of six trucks full of arms and explosives, say reports from Yemen.
January 4, 2010
Johnny Lee Wicks Shot Dead After Killing Court Officer, Wounding U.S. Marshal
January 5, 2010
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) -- In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare -- a truck driver's assistant who lived with his mother -- won $30 million in the Florida lottery. His good fortune may have cost him his life.
January 6, 2010
MIAMI (AP) — Police say an airline passenger in Miami proclaimed "I want to kill all the Jews" before officers forced him off a Detroit-bound plane.January 7, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) — A would-be terrorist tries to board a plane, bent on mass murder. As he walks through a security checkpoint, fidgeting and glancing around, a network of high-tech machines analyzes his body language and reads his mind.January 8, 2010
EUREKA, Calif.—Power is mostly back up and the phone are working again in Humboldt County, where residents are cleaning up and checking for structural damage in the aftermath of a 6.5 earthquake.
January 10, 2010
AP IMPACT: Billions of stimulus dollars spent for roads and bridges didn't affect unemployment.
January 11, 2010
TEHRAN, Iran - A nuclear physics professor who publicly backed opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the June presidential election was killed Tuesday when a bomb-rigged motorcycle blew up outside his home.
January 12, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Dazed & injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleading for help Wednesday & untold numbers were trapped in rubble brought down by the strongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 yrs.
January 13, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- The United States is closely monitoring a "credible threat" from al Qaeda in Yemen against the U.S. homeland, two senior officials told CNN.
January 14, 2010
The U.S. government is advising American sports fans travelling to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics to watch out for al-Qaeda and other extremists...
January 15, 2010
Today's storm could produce at least three inches of rain, plus dangerous surf and high wind. Two more are expected to follow.
January 18, 2010
A Michigan weapons company is under fire for branding thousands of rifle scopes used by U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan with passages from the Bible.
January 19, 2010
APPOMATTOX, Va. - A gunman suspected of killing eight people before he disappeared into dense woods in rural Virginia surrendered without incident early Wednesday, Virginia State Police said.
January 20, 2010
Bloomberg -- The head of the FBI said the threat of a terrorist attack against the U.S. is becoming more worrisome “with each passing day.”
January 21, 2010
NEW DELHI — Indian airports were on high alert Friday after intelligence services received information that Al Qaeda-linked militants were plotting to hijack a plane.
January 22, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- British, French and Cypriot aircraft joined rescue crews searching the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lebanon on Monday where an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed with 90 people aboard.
January 25, 2010
(CNN) -- A man was arrested Monday after police found an arsenal of high-powered weapons and a map of a U.S. military base in his New Jersey hotel, authorities said.
January 26, 2010
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to unveil a new plan for a quicker response to bioterrorism threats and attacks, the White House said Tuesday.
January 27, 2010
Britain is ready to contribute millions of dollars to a fund to buy off Taliban gunmen who are fighting British troops in southern Afghanistan.
January 28, 2010
KUALA LUMPUR: Police last week acted quickly to forestall a serious threat to national security when they nabbed 10 terror suspects with links to international terrorist organisations.
January 29, 2010
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran rose Monday after the Obama Administration quietly increased the capability of land and sea-based missile defenses in several Gulf nations to protect American allies against a potential Iranian strike.
February 01, 2010
BARGHANTU, Afghanistan -- The tunnel entrance was no more than 18 inches high. Matt, a U.S. Special Forces soldier, stripped off his body armor, dropped his rifle and wriggled through the gap, pistol and flashlight leading the way. Some 150 feet in, his beam caught a shape: a bearded man hiding behind a pile of rocks.
February 2, 2010
The Obama administration's top intelligence officials on Tuesday described it as "certain" that al-Qaeda or its allies will try to attack the United States in the next six months, and they called for new flexibility in how U.S. officials detain and question terrorist suspects.
February 3, 2010
Metro Transit Police staged their largest anti-terrorism sweep ever during Tuesday morning's rush hour, as about 50 officers -- some toting M-4 rifles and others guiding bomb-sniffing dogs -- took up position in Union Station in a new initiative aimed at discouraging attacks.
February 4, 2010
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair acknowledged Wednesday that government agencies may kill U.S. citizens abroad who are involved in terrorist activities if they are "taking action that threatens Americans."
February 5, 2010
Middletown, Connecticut (CNN) -- State and federal investigators were expected to launch an investigation Monday at a power plant where an explosion killed at least five people and injured more than two dozen, authorities said.
February 8, 2010
TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Toyota's president apologized profusely Tuesday as he announced the global recall of more than 400,000 of the automaker's 2010 hybrid models, including the popular Prius, for problems in their anti-lock braking systems.
February 9, 2010
TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed Thursday that Iran has produced its first batch of uranium enriched to a higher level, saying his country will not be bullied by the West into curtailing its nuclear program a day after the U.S. imposed new sanctions.
February 11, 2010
New Delhi: An American citizen was detained at the Indira Gandhi International airport here after a knife was found in his hand baggage and a FBI team joined Indian investigators to probe if he had any terror link like US LeT operative David Headley.
February 12, 2010
The husband of an Alabama professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues said that the couple went to a shooting range recently, but that he didn't know where she got the gun she used for practice.
February 16, 2010
(CNN) -- A Washington think tank staged a mock cyberattack on the United States on Tuesday in a bid to evaluate strategies for fighting cyberterrorists. Former senior government officials gathered at the Bipartisan Policy Center to play the roles of Cabinet members responding to a simulated attack on the nation's computer infrastructure.
February 17, 2010
KABUL — Pakistani authorities using U.S.-gathered intelligence arrested up to nine al-Qaida-linked militants in a series of overnight raids in the southern city of Karachi, officials said Thursday.
February 18, 2010
A software engineer with an apparent grudge against the government crashed his small plane into an office building with nearly 200 Internal Revenue Service employees inside, killing himself and at least one worker.
February 19, 2010
WASHINGTON - Americans who turn to terrorism and plot against the U.S. are now as big a concern as international terrorists, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday.
February 22, 2010
NEW YORK — The key suspect in a plot to attack New York City with homemade bombs pleaded guilty in a federal court on Monday, Fox News has confirmed.
February 23, 2010
Two middle school students were shot Tuesday afternoon at a Colorado school. The gunman, an adult male, opened fire at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colo., just after 3 p.m. Tuesday, around the time school was being dismissed. He was taken into custody by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department
February 24, 2010
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Police announced 15 new suspects in the January killing of a Hamas leader at a Dubai hotel, bringing to 26 the number of people suspected of involvement in his death.
February 25, 2010
PHILADELPHIA - A windy winter storm has knocked out power to at least 700,000 homes and businesses in the Northeast, fanned a hotel fire in coastal New Hampshire, and disrupted travel.
February 26, 2010
CONCEPCION, Chile - Chile's government scrambled on Monday to provide aid to thousands of homeless in coastal towns devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunamis as 10,000 troops moved into stricken areas to quell looting.
March 1, 2010
Hazardous material crews were called to an IRS building in Ogden, Utah on Monday less than two weeks after a man deliberately crashed his private plane into an Austin, Texas building that housed IRS workers, the U.S. tax agency confirmed.
March 2, 2010
Pakistani forces have taken control of a warren of caves that served until recently as the nerve center of the Taliban and Al Qaeda and sheltered Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command to Usama bin Laden.
March 3, 2010
(CNN) -- A terrorist group might be planning attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, Singapore's navy warned Thursday.
March 4, 2010
Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was mortally wounded in a hail of return fire.
March 5, 2010
COMMERCE, Texas - A man walked into a Walmart in Texas carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said. The man was killed and an off-duty officer in the store who had tried to stop him was injured.
(CNN) -- Three Ohio State University employees were shot, one of them fatally, in an early Tuesday morning attack on campus, university police said.
March 9, 2010
A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "JihadJane" has been charged in federal court with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters to carry out murders and violent attacks overseas.
March 10, 2010
The former operations chief and second in command of the Afghan Taliban has been "singing like a male canary" since his arrest last month in Karachi, Pakistan, counterintelligence officials said Wednesday.
March 11, 2010
‘While al-Qaida would still love to have home runs, they will take singles’
March 12, 2010
Seattle police now have a man in custody who alarmed people downtown Friday morning by walking around with a wired pipe strapped to his arm and making threats.
March 12, 2010
The pair aimed to attack a market, a shopping centre and a state-owned gas facility, according to anti-terrorism officers.
March 15, 2010
The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to and living in Mexico of concerns about the security situation in Mexico, and that it has authorized the departure of the dependents of U.S. government personnel from U.S. consulates in the Northern Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros until April 12.
March 16, 2010
WASHINGTON -- One was a drywall contractor and father, another a petite woman who cared for the elderly, another a U.S. military officer. The most alarming thing about a string of recently arrested terror suspects is that they are all Americans.
March 17, 2010
Five Americans face life in a Pakistani jail after officials there charged them with plotting terror attacksMarch 18, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- A sweeping bill overhauling the U.S. medical system goes to President Obama's desk on Monday to be signed into law.
March 22, 2010
WASHINGTON — A suspected Al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantanamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday.
March 23, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya — Private security guards shot and killed a Somali pirate during an attack on a merchant ship off the coast of East Africa in what is believed to be the first such killing by armed contractors, the EU Naval Force spokesman said Wednesday.
March 24, 2010
CNN) -- More than 100 people accused of planning attacks against police and oil installations have been arrested in Saudi Arabia, an Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN on Wednesday.
March 25, 2010
MOSCOW -- Two female homicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow's subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing at least 37 people and wounding 102, officials said.
March 29. 2010
Prior to his release in December, Abdul Hafiz was Prisoner Number 1030 at Guantanamo Bay. Now, less than four months later, he's back home in Afghanistan and working for the Taliban -- just the latest of more than 100 released detainees who have returned to terrorism, according to the Pentagon.
March 30, 2010
WASHINGTON - Authorities now say a fourth person has died and six others wounded after a drive-by shooting in the 4000 block of South Capitol Street in Southeast.
March 31, 2010
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - Two homicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed at least 12 people and injured 18 others in the southern Russian province of Dagestan on Wednesday, officials said. Nine police officers were among the dead.
April 1, 2010
ANACORTES, Wash. – An explosion and fire at an oil refinery shook homes and shot flames into the night sky early Friday, killing one person, leaving three workers missing and critically injuring four others
April 2, 2010
Beijing, China (CNN) -- More than a week after their coal mine in northern China was flooded by a rush of underground water, 115 miners were pulled out alive Monday, China's state-run TV reported.
April 5, 2010
MONTCOAL, W.Va. - Rescue teams began drilling into the ground Tuesday as the search resumed for four workers missing after a coal mine explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades.
April 6, 2010
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- The Kyrgyzstan Health Ministry says at least 180 people have been wounded in clashes between police and anti-government protesters in this Central Asian nation.
April 7, 2010
DENVER -- An envoy from Qatar who authorities said grabbed a surreptitious smoke in a jetliner's bathroom and then joked about lighting his shoe on fire, sparking a bomb scare and the scrambling of military jets, has been released from custody.
April 8, 2010
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- After a two-year battle that has killed more than 5,000 people, Mexico's most powerful kingpin now controls the coveted trafficking routes through Ciudad Juarez. That conclusion by U.S. intelligence adds to evidence that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa cartel is winning Mexico's drug war.
April 9, 2010
(CNN) -- President Obama hosts leaders from 46 countries for a two-day nuclear security summit starting Monday that will focus on how to better safeguard weapons materials, both old and new, to keep them out of the hands of terrorists.
April 12, 2010
BEIJING - A series of strong earthquakes struck a far western Tibetan area of China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring thousands as houses made of mud and wood collapsed, trapping many more, officials said.
April 14, 2010
LONDON -- Ash clouds from Iceland's spewing volcano disrupted air traffic across Europe on Thursday as authorities closed air space over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries. Tens of thousands of passengers were stranded as flights were canceled and it was not clear when it would be safe enough to fly again.
April 15, 2010
PARIS — With no prospect of a return to normal before the weekend, travel chaos across the globe deepened on Friday as a vast, high-altitude plume of volcanic ash from Iceland spread farther across northern and central Europe, forcing authorities to close airspace and ground airplanes to forestall potentially dangerous damage to jet engines.
April 16, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somali pirates hijacked three Thai fishing vessels with 77 crew aboard more than 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) off the Somali coast, the farthest-off-shore attack to date, the EU Naval Force said Tuesday.
April 20, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - At least seven people were injured and up to 15 feared missing after an explosion at an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana's coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
April 21, 2010
MEXICO CITY - Dozens of gunmen burst into a Holiday Inn and another hotel in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey Wednesday, searching from room-to-room and abducting at least six people, prosecutors said.
April 22, 2010
BAGHDAD - A triple bombing hit the main Baghdad office of an anti-U.S. Shiite cleric in the deadliest of a series of attacks across Iraq that killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 200, officials said.
April 23, 2010
YAZOO CITY, Miss. - Morgan Hayden and Joe Moton treaded carefully through nails, broken glass and pink tufts of insulation, the remnants of their home leveled by a tornado that killed at least 10 in rural Mississippi.
April 26, 2010
PHOENIX — The conflict over a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona intensified yesterday as vandals smeared refried beans in the shape of swastikas on the State Capitol’s windows.
April 27, 2010
BANGKOK - Thai security forces and anti-government protesters clashed Wednesday on the outskirts of Bangkok, with troops firing both over and then directly into a crowd of Red Shirts to keep them from expanding their demonstrations. At least 16 protesters were wounded and one soldier was killed.
April 28, 2010
China has suffered its second schoolyard knife attack in two days, leaving 28 kindergarten-aged children injured, five of them critically.
April 29, 2010
The governor of Louisiana has declared a state of emergency after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reached its coast, threatening environmental and economic disaster.
April 30, 2010
NEW YORK -- Police investigating a terror attack that could have set off a deadly fireball in Times Square focused Sunday on finding a man who was videotaped shedding his shirt near the SUV where the bomb was found.
May 3, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The cresting of the swollen Cumberland River is little comfort amid fears receding floodwaters will reveal more victims of deadly storms that swamped much of middle Tennessee with flash floods so swift many could not escape.
May 4, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane.
May 5, 2010
SAN ANTONIO -- An 18-wheeler being loaded with fuel at a San Antonio refinery exploded Wednesday, setting off a chain reaction of smaller explosions and sending a towering plume of thick black smoke over the city's southeast side.
May 6, 2010
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - A nine-hour bomb scare aboard a Maine-to-New York Greyhound bus ended peacefully Thursday night when the lone remaining passenger walked off it with his hands over his head. The other 16 passengers and the driver had left the bus safely hours earlier.
May 7, 2010
(CNN) -- The death toll from explosions at a Russian mine climbed to 30 on Monday as rescue efforts resumed in western Siberia, the nation's Emergency Situations Ministry said.
NORMAN, Okla. -- Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines.
May 11, 2010
(CNN) -- One person -- believed to be a child -- survived a passenger plane crash in Libya that was feared to have killed more than 100 people, an official said Wednesday.
May 12, 2010
MAKHACHKALA, Russia - At least eight people were killed on Thursday in an attack in Russia's North Caucasus province of Dagestan, officials said.
May 13, 2010
(CNN) -- Three people from Pakistan were taken into custody Thursday in raids in the Northeast by federal agents in connection with the failed Times Square car bombing, sources close to the investigation said.
May 14, 2010
Thailand's Red Shirts offered peace talks Monday to end raging street battles that have killed at least 37 people in Bangkok as a government deadline demanding the demonstrators vacate a protest zone passed without capitulation.
May 17, 2010
A senior Al Qaeda militant suspected of planning an attack targeting the soccer World Cup in South Africa next month has been detained, an Iraqi official says.
May 18, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents carrying rockets and grenades launched a brazen pre-dawn attack on a giant U.S.-run base north of Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, leaving at least 10 guerrillas dead and 7 foreign troops wounded.
May 19, 2010
The October 2007 Southern California wildfires were a severe test of the state’s emergency management capabilities. While 1,500 homes were destroyed and more than 500,000 acres of land burned, almost half a million people were evacuated from their homes. The devastating fires were also a test of the state’s new emphasis on public-private partnerships in disaster response.
May 20, 2010
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Tensions deepened Thursday on the Korean peninsula as South Korea accused North Korea of firing a torpedo that sank a naval warship, killing 46 sailors in the country's worst military disaster since the Korean War.
May 21, 2010
WARSAW, Poland - About 100,000 people have been told to flee Warsaw after the river that runs through Poland's capital burst its banks, NBC News reported Monday.
May 24, 2010
BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai court issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges, accusing the fugitive former leader of fomenting two months of unrest in Bangkok that left 88 people dead.
May 25, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Obama will deploy an additional 1,200 National Guard troops to the southern border and request $500 million extra for border security, according to an administration official. The decision comes as the White House seeks Republican support for broad immigration reform this year.
May 26, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York's Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says "the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period."
May 27, 2010
SARDIHA, India (AP) — Suspected Maoist rebels derailed an overnight passenger train Friday in eastern India, triggering a crash with an oncoming cargo train that killed at least 71 people and injured about 200 more, officials said.
May 28, 2010
(CNN) -- At least 115 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
June 1, 2010
PORT FOURCHON, La. -- As submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf oil gusher, the crude on the surface spread, closing in on Florida. BP's stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it, and the federal government announced criminal and civil investigations into the spill.
June 2, 2010
WHITEHAVEN, England — British detectives searched for clues Thursday to the motive behind a taxi driver's murderous rampage across a tranquil part of rural England, which left 12 people dead and 11 wounded before the gunman committed suicide.
June 3, 2010
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. - The young men's intentions were sinister, according to officials: to head to Somalia to seek terror training from al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists and unleash attacks against fellow Americans.
CLEBURNE, Texas (AP) — A natural gas explosion in north Texas killed one member of a crew installing utility poles, and authorities were trying to figure out if the gas line had been marked before digging started.
June 8, 2010
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- A teenager plotted with another to pull off a Columbine-style attack on his former high school, authorities on New York's Long Island said Tuesday - the second time in three years he has been accused of such a plot.
June 9, 2010
NADAHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan -A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party for a family with ties to police in the Taliban's heartland in Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Thursday.
June 10, 2010
WASHINGTON - Law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 2,000 people in a 22-month investigation targeting Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the United States.
June 11, 2010
A team of U.S. geologists and Pentagon officials has discovered vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan, conceivably enough to turn the scarred and impoverished country into one of the world's most lucrative mining centers, a senior military official told Fox News on Monday.
MacDill Air Force Base, Florida (CNN) -- All gates at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida will be open Tuesday after being temporarily closed after a heavily armed man and woman were taken into custody when they tried to enter the facility without authorization, an Air Force spokeswoman said.
June 15, 2010
OSH, Kyrgyzstan - Heavy arms fire rang out over the Kyrgyz city of Osh before dawn Wednesday as authorities struggled to bring order to the country's south, which has been thrust into chaos by days of deadly ethnic riots.
June 16, 2010
(CNN) -- The toll climbed to more than 50 people killed in Monday's ambush on a Mexican federal police convoy and an unrelated prison uprising, authorities said Tuesday.
June 17, 2010
MANSFIELD — A state trooper was killed early this morning when he was struck by a passing vehicle while outside his cruiser on Interstate 95 North, state police said.
June 18, 2010
CHESTER, Pa. -- A suburban Philadelphia city has declared a state of emergency following the fourth killing in eight days, including the death of a 2-year-old boy a week ago.
(CNN) -- In the first public incident of its kind, cartels are making direct death threats to U.S. law enforcement officials in Nogales, Arizona, the police chief there told CNN Monday.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Army officials say a contractor has been killed and two other men have been injured in a live-fire training accident at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
June 23, 2010
(CNN) -- At least 12 people were killed and several others injured when they were run over by a train in a town south of Barcelona, Spain, a spokesman for Catalonia Emergency Center said Thursday.
June 24, 2010
TORONTO (AP) — Police on heightened alert before a summit of world leaders stopped a car with a large container strapped to its roof and arrested the driver after finding gasoline canisters, a chainsaw, a cross bow, arrows and sledge hammers inside.
June 25, 2010
(CNN) -- Authorities in southern California said the strong smell of marijuana helped them discover $45 million worth of drugs in the back of a tractor-trailer they had pulled over for a traffic violation.
June 28, 2010
Washington (CNN) -- Less than a week after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the United States, the Justice Department announced Monday that 10 people were arrested on charges of being Russian agents involved in a long-term mission in the country. Another suspect was still being sought.
June 29, 2010
MIAMI — Hurricane Alex was becoming stronger in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, but was expected to skirt oil fields before making landfall later in the day or early Thursday. Feds declare emergency in Texas; storm could become Category 2.
June 30, 2010
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican federal police have arrested a drug cartel chieftain who is a former police officer and is connected to more than 30 brutal killings, authorities said Wednesday.
July 1, 2010
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border Thursday left 21 people dead and at least six others wounded, prosecutors said.
July 2, 2010
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Taliban militants attacked the compound of a U.S. aid agency subcontractor in northern Afghanistan early Friday, killing at least four people and wounding 20 others, government officials said.