Author: Lemuel

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea called President Barack Obama “a monkey” and blamed the U.S. on Saturday for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the comedy “The Interview.”  North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy depicting an […]

Associated Press HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — President Barack Obama is “recklessly” spreading rumors of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyberattack of Sony Pictures, North Korea says, as it warns of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and “the whole U.S. mainland, that cesspool of terrorism.”  Such rhetoric is routine from North Korea’s massive propaganda […]

Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, ID’d as shooter of two NYPD officers in Brooklyn ambush ‘assassinations’ The lone gunman who walked up to a Brooklyn patrol car and opened fire, killing two New York City police officers execution style, has been identified as a Baltimore man who posted chilling anti-cop messages to social media Saturday before traveling […]

The 20-odd people chanting “Honk if you want justice,” on a New Bedford, Massachusetts sidewalk Dec. 12 got a lot of attention. They were second graders, rallying against police for the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. While the rest of their class enjoyed 11:30 recess that morning, these 7 and 8-year-old protesters […]

SOUDERTON, Pa. (AP) — Police on Monday surrounded a home outside Philadelphia where they believe a suspect had barricaded himself after shootings at multiple homes. The man was suspected of killing five people Monday morning at three different homes, police told WPVI-TV (http://6abc.cm/1uNlj4A ). They say the man was suspected of killing a woman in […]

SYDNEY (AP) — A gunman took an unknown number of people hostage inside a downtown Sydney chocolate shop and cafe at the height of Monday morning rush hour, with two people inside the cafe seen holding up a flag believed to contain an Islamic declaration of faith. Four hours after the incident first erupted inside […]

LONDON — Airspace over London was restricted following a computer failure on Friday that triggered chaos at the British capital’s five airports. A Heathrow Airport spokesman said that “a technical problem” was to blame and that flights were “experiencing delays.” NATS, which provides air-traffic control services in the U.K., clarified an earlier statement by European […]

Congress averted a short-term shutdown by passing a spending bill before midnight The House squeaked through a $1.1 trillion bill Thursday night with only hours to spare before a midnight deadline that would have shut down the government. On the House floor, the vote tally—219 to 206—was watched as closely as the scoreboard in the […]

“To have an African doctor, who grew up in a shantytown in probably one of the most disadvantaged countries in the world, on the cover of TIME magazine’s Person of the Year is the right thing to do,” says Jackie Nickerson, the fine-art photographer who shot the cover of TIME’s Person of the Year. This […]