Taylor Swift has been in London this week ahead of her Eras Tour shows, throwing a party for her staff as she was seen in public for the first time since terror threats forced the cancellation of her shows in Vienna last week. The star celebrated her tour staff at Annabel’s, a private members’ club, … Read more
An Irvine man who firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in Costa Mesa and plotted but did not carry out attacks at an electrical substation in Orange and at Dodger Stadium during an LGBTQ pride event was sentenced Thursday to six years in federal prison. Tibet Ergul, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one felony count … Read more
Nearly 23 years after 9/11, the feds are finally expected to make all commercial planes have secondary cockpit barriers to prevent planes from being hijacked. Congress on Wednesday passed a bill that would require secondary cockpit barriers on all commercial aircraft. The installation of secondary cockpit barriers on all commercial passenger flights is the only 9/11 … Read more
By Dasha Litvinova | Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the gunmen who carried out the concert hall attack that killed over 130 people in a Moscow suburb last week were “radical Islamists.” Speaking in a meeting with government officials, Putin said the killings were carried out by extremists “whose ideology the … Read more
By Sam Mednick and Michael Biesecker | Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal — Women slain with babies wrapped against their bodies, lifeless children intertwined together, a 2-month-old face-up on the ground with puppies crawling on his tiny frame. The scenes were horrifying, but the 32-year-old farmer felt he had to document them, as proof of the … Read more
By Mariya Knight | CNN Three armed men opened fire inside the Crocus City Hall concert hall in the Moscow region, according to Russian state media agencies TASS and RIA Novosti. There are believed to be dead and wounded, Russian state media reported, without specifying any numbers. “People in camouflage, at least three, burst into the … Read more
By Alanna Durkin Richer | Associated Press BOSTON — A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias and determine whether his death sentence should stand. The ruling from the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps … Read more
By Matthew Lee | Associated Press CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled Thursday with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel soured further over Israel’s war against Hamas, notably its intent to mount a major military operation against the southern … Read more
By Abeer Salman, Khader Al Za’anoun, Ibrahim Dahman, Sana Noor Haq, Kareen Khadder, Lauren Izso and Tim Lister | CNN Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, according to eyewitness accounts shared with CNN. Palestinian reporters and hospital staff … Read more
By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy | Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Explosions and shootings shook the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital and surrounding neighborhoods as Israeli forces stormed through the facility for a second day Tuesday. The military said it had killed 50 Hamas militants in the hospital, but it could not be independently … Read more