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…
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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…
Former minister elected as chief of Pyeongchang 2018
South Korean Olympic officials have elected former government minister Lee Hee-beom as the new head of the organizing committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics following the abrupt resignation of the…
Brazil house speaker annuls presidential impeachment vote
By JENNY BARCHFIELD and MAURICIO SAVARESE The acting speaker of the lower house of Brazil’s Congress on Monday annulled last month’s vote on impeachment, delaying and complicating the process that…
Former House speaker sentenced to more than a year in prison
By MICHAEL TARM Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to…
Police: Ex-Saint Will Smith gunned down in case of road rage
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY Former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith was shot and killed in a case of road rage by a man who had rear-ended his car, police said…
Politicians, celebs deny abuse of offshore accounts
By FRANK JORDANS and KEN MORITSUGU The president of Ukraine became the latest prominent politician to deny wrongdoing Wednesday after his name was linked to secretive offshore accounts arranged by…
Obama in Cuba: Historic Castro summit a key test for detente
By JOSH LEDERMAN and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will sit down Monday at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution for a…