PESHAWAR: Nine cops, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), were martyred and 28 others were injured after terrorists attacked the Khazina Banda checkpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu district late on Wednesday. A statement issued by KP Inspector General (IG) Zulfiqar Hameed said that the checkpost was attacked by Fitna al Khawarij, a term the…
Two firefighters died Wednesday while battling a blaze on the Greek island of Crete, officials said, while crews in southern France worked to extinguish a massive, uncontained wildfire that had spread to roughly four times the size of Paris. Across Europe, firefighters confronted a dangerous combination of high temperatures, drought and powerful winds, compromising containment…
Houston — A federal judge on Monday ordered U.S. immigration authorities to release a key witness in the fatal shooting of a Mexican homebuilder by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison ordered the release of Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego from ICE custody within 48 hours, after the…
The suspect in the Berlin LGBTQ+ Pride parade attack, who officials said was known to have ties to ISIS, was about to be disqualified from a deradicalization program after staff saw red flags, one of the program’s leaders told CBS News on Monday. Officials said Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German-born citizen with Lebanese roots, plowed a…
A U.S. appellate court on Saturday upheld a federal ruling that, in nearly half of all states, blocked President Trump’s executive order to create a list of eligible voters and limit the delivery of mail ballots to people on that list. The ruling by judges of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the…
Fire crews in France and Spain continued to battle raging wildfires that have forced the evacuation of more than 300,000 people in the two countries. Authorities in France’s Gironde region, where the wine region city of Bordeaux is located, issued overnight evacuation orders for five more localities as shifting winds and arid conditions complicated the…
More than 267,000 people have been forced to flee parts of Western Europe on Saturday as out-of-control wildfires continued to rage in Spain and France. Thick black ash coated roof terraces in the north of Madrid’s center, the Spanish capital, where 70,000 people were evacuated as residents were forced to keep their windows closed by…
At the Shrimp Basket restaurant in Pensacola, Florida, a customer consistently ordered a cup of gumbo for lunch and for dinner for 10 years. When he didn’t show up one week, the chef went to his house to check on him. Steve Hartman goes “On the Road” with the story, months later. Source link
Washington — President Trump on Friday ordered federal officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that correct what he says is “inaccurate” information presented by the institution about American history. Mr. Trump’s directive cited a 162-page White House report released on July 4 that accused the museum of adopting “an…
Paramount Skydance will delay its planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery until as late as June 2027 amid separate lawsuits filed by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America. The deal could be completed sooner if a federal judge rules on the lawsuits. The deal could close five days after the merits determination….
