Police: Approximately 20 killed in Florida club shooting
By MIKE SCHNEIDER A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub early Sunday before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police…
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‘The Voice’ singer Christina Grimmie dies after shooting
By NICKI MAYO and GREG SCHREIER A gunman opened fire at a Florida concert venue as a onetime star of “The Voice” signed autographs for fans after a show, killing…
Israel beefs up troops in West Bank after Tel Aviv shooting
By DANIEL ESTRIN Israel on Thursday imposed a series of sweeping restrictions on Palestinian movement and deployed hundreds of additional troops to the West Bank in response to a Tel…
Israel says con men stole millions from global companies
By DANIEL ESTRIN and ERIKA KINETZ The scam had all the trappings of a major con. Working from a dingy office building just a short drive from the glittering Mediterranean…
Islamic State kills dozens of its own in hunt for spies
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE In March, a senior commander with the Islamic State group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there…
Police identify man who carried out UCLA murder-suicide
By AMANDA LEE MYERS and CHRISTINE ARMARIO Police on Thursday identified the man they say carried out a murder-suicide that took the life of an engineering professor at UCLA. The…
Chad ex-dictator found guilty, sentence to life for abuses
By CARLEY PETESCH Chad’s former dictator Hissene Habre was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and sex crimes during his time in…
Mexican soccer player Alan Pulido rescued after kidnapping
By ALFREDO PENA Mexican authorities rescued kidnapped soccer player Alan Pulido after he was able to dial an emergency phone number and alert authorities to his location, a state prosecutor…