Bin Laden top aide sentenced to life in embassy bombing plot
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER A former top aide to Osama bin Laden was given life in prison for the 1998 bombings of two embassies in Africa, a sentence…
Crime
Police shoot man suspected in 4 hammer attacks in Manhattan
By KAREN MATTHEWS and COLLEEN LONG A man suspected of attacking four people with a hammer this week was shot and wounded by police Wednesday after he pulled a hammer…
Bill Clinton’s lucrative speeches got fast approval at State
By LISA LERER and STEPHEN BRAUN State Department officials gave speedy and sometimes only cursory consideration to potential conflicts of interest when approving former President Bill Clinton’s lucrative speeches to…
Report released after SC white deputy shoots black homeowner
By BRUCE SMITH As a South Carolina sheriff’s deputy responded to a report of a home invasion, he shouted commands at a black homeowner holding a gun before firing at…
Police break up US-Italy drug ring run out of NYC pizzeria
FRANCES D’EMILIO By night, the Calabrian immigrant family served up piping-hot pizza. After hours, Italian and U.S. authorities say, the restaurant in the New York borough of Queens was busy…
Schools reopen in Baltimore, streets quiet after curfew
By AMANDA LEE MYERS and DAVID DISHNEAU Schools reopened across the city and tensions seemed to ease Wednesday after Baltimore made it through the first night of its curfew without…
Saudi Arabia makes Islamic State arrests, thwarting attacks
Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it has arrested a total of 93 people with ties to the Islamic State group in recent months, foiling their plans to carry out multiple terrorist…
Latest on police-custody death: 500 Guardsmen in Baltimore
By The Associated Press A spokesman says Monday’s riot is the first time the Maryland National Guard has been called up for a civil disturbance in the state since 1968,…