Multi-car pileups claim 3 lives on icy Pennsylvania highways
A pair of multi-car pileups — including one involving dozens of vehicles — in icy conditions on interstates in the Philadelphia area claimed at least three lives on Sunday, authorities…
Accidents and disasters
Court upholds Paris police ban of anti-Islamist rally
By GREG KELLER and RAF CASERTA French court has upheld the Paris police chief’s order to ban a planned demonstration against radical Islamists in the wake of France’s worst terrorism…
Pope strongly defends church teaching against contraception
By NICOLE WINFIELD and OLIVER TEVES Pope Francis issued his strongest defense yet of church teaching opposing artificial contraception on Friday, using a rally in Asia’s largest Catholic nation to…
European police arrest 2 dozen in anti-terrorism sweeps
By RAF CASERT and ANGELA CHARLTON French, German and Belgian police arrested more than two dozen suspects in anti-terrorism raids Friday, as European authorities rushed to thwart more attacks by…
Belgium police kill 2 in anti-terror raid during shootout
By RAF CASERT and FRANK AUGSTEIN Belgian security forces killed two terror suspects with links to Syria in a fierce shootout in the eastern city of Verviers on Thursday and…
DC subway hobbled after smoke filled train, killing 1
By BEN NUCKOLS and JESSICA GRESKO The transit network in the nation’s capital was hobbled Tuesday after an electrical malfunction filled a busy subway station with smoke a day earlier,…
Divers find black boxes in AirAsia crash, retrieve 1 of them
By ACHMAD IBRAHIM Indonesia (AP) — Divers retrieved one black box Monday and located the other from the AirAsia plane that crashed more than two weeks ago, key developments that…
World leaders head Paris march to honor terror victims
LORI HINNANT More than 40 world leaders, their arms linked, marched through Paris Sunday to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor 17 victims of three days…