Daily Archives: December 15, 2016

Chinese leaders are meeting to set economic goals for 2017 amid pressure from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and European governments over trade and market access. Continue reading →

A commercial ship police say that was used in a suspected drug smuggling operation was intercepted off Australia and its crew are expected to be taken into custody, officials said Friday. Continue reading →

Police arrested a suspected gunman early Friday following an hourslong standoff in a community north of Seattle, after a police officer was shot in the head and critically wounded, investigators said. Continue reading →

Jurors took just an hour Thursday to convict a California sex offender of killing four women — crimes that were mostly committed while he was being tracked by GPS and that now make him eligible for a death sentence. Continue reading →

Authorities say two children have died after falling through ice in southwestern Indiana. Continue reading →

Russia and Japan aren’t likely to resolve a long-running territorial dispute, but they hope to announce an economic cooperation agreement after their leaders finish talks in Tokyo on Friday. Continue reading →

The Latest on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Japan (all times local): 2 p.m. Continue reading →

Four Syrian organizations say Russia bears “a high likelihood” of responsibility for 304 attacks in Aleppo that violate international humanitarian law and may constitute war crimes. Continue reading →

China’s first aircraft carrier battle group has carried out its first live-fire exercise, the Defense Ministry has announced. Continue reading →

The life was long drained from Lynette Daley by the time the cops rolled up to the lonely beach where her ***** body lay. Continue reading →

A former Guantanamo detainee who had resettled in Uruguay left the South American country for South Africa on Thursday, ending a two-year campaign to be allowed to go. Continue reading →

Lawrence Manley Colburn, a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War who helped end the slaughter of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese villagers by U.S. troops at My Lai, has died. Continue reading →

Pope Francis is doing his part to unite Colombians divided by a peace deal with leftist rebels by sponsoring a surprise meeting between President Juan Manuel Santos and his harshest critic. Continue reading →

The head of Poland’s governing party says he met with Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is now a close adviser to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Continue reading →

Austrian lawmakers have expropriated the house in which Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in an effort to stem the flow of neo-Nazi sympathizers from using the residence as a shrine to the Führer, according to published reports. Continue reading →

A Texas judge has ordered a school district to restore a decoration that included a biblical verse recited by Linus in the 1960s TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Officials in the Killeen school district north of Austin ordered a nurse’s aide, De… Continue reading →

The president of the European Union says the 28-nation bloc will be seeking to hold a summit meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next month to discuss the testy relations between the two. Continue reading →

Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday of last year’s grisly massacre at a historic black church that left nine parishioners slain at a Bible study. Continue reading →

Chris Connors never played by the rules and his family was determined that his obituary wouldn’t either. Continue reading →

A jury in South Carolina Thursday convicted Dylann Roof in the shootings that killed nine black church members during a Bible study in Charleston last year, a verdict that could lead to a death sentence for the self-avowed white supremacist. Continue reading →

Visiting an inmate at New York City’s Riker’s Island jail means a long bus ride, intense security screening and hours waiting in a joyless visitor center. Continue reading →

Mexico’s central bank says it’s raising its interbank lending rate by one-half percent to 5.75 percent. Continue reading →

Swedish officials have been given the order to ensure the country is ready for war should Russia try to invade. Continue reading →

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday called for a “new deal” for children in conflict zones around the globe, saying not since the end of World War II have so many children’s human rights been violated. Continue reading →

A Virginia inmate asked a federal court Wednesday to block the state’s plans to execute him next month with lethal injection drugs from a secret compounding pharmacy, suggesting even a firing squad would be more humane. Continue reading →

Ecuador’s government says it’s declaring a state of emergency in an Amazonian region where apparently indigenous protesters attacked a Chinese-owned mine, leaving at least one policeman dead. Continue reading →