The U.S. often sends powerful warplanes in times of heightened animosities with North Korea, and flew B-1B bombers several times this year as the North conducted a series of banned ballistic missile tests.
US sends supersonic bombers in show of force against N.Korea
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UK police: Mosque attack suspect held on terror charges; family 'shocked'
British media identified the suspect as Darren Osborne from the Welsh city of Cardiff. He was arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism including murder and attempted murder.
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LIGHT LUNCH: From body type to cornrows, the Ken doll gets a makeover
Mattel is introducing 15 new looks for the male doll, giving him new skin tones, body shapes and hair styles. The makeover is part of the toy company's plan to make its dolls more diverse and appeal to today's kids. Barbie received a similar overhaul more than a year ago.
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Death of American detained in North Korea baffles experts
What happened to Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died just days after North Korea released him from detention in a coma, is difficult to make sense of.
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AP-NORC poll: Few favor Trump move to ditch Paris accord
Less than one-third of Americans support President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, a new poll shows, and just 18 percent of respondents agree with his claim that pulling out of the international agreement to reduce carbon emissions will help the U.S. economy.
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McConnell says GOP getting ready for Senate health care vote
Republicans are getting ready for Senate votes on legislation scuttling former President Barack Obama's health care law, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday among growing indications that the climactic vote could occur next week.
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US military shoots down Iranian-made drone in southern Syria
The U.S. military said it shot down an Iranian-made, armed drone in southern Syria on Tuesday, marking the third time this month that that the U.S. has downed aircraft affiliated with Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
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Suspect shot after explosion at Brussels train station
A bomb squad performed a controlled explosion of a bomb belt the suspect had at the Central Station and was checking to see if there more hazards, VTM network reported. Authorities set up a wide perimeter around the station, located near the city's famed Grand Place square.
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RISE: Two wins for GOP; summer starts hot; Amazon in your closet
Republican Karen Handel won a nationally watched congressional election Tuesday in Georgia, and she thanked President Donald Trump after she avoided an upset that would have rocked Washington ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
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Quincy Community school's investigation expands
COLDWATER — Branch County Prosecutor Ralph Kimble said the request to Quincy School board attorney Robert Huber to delay his investigation into the handling of the Jason Ferrell probe and aftermath did not originate from Branch County Sheriff Sgt. Mike Gatke but came from his office.Huber, Monday night, said he talked to some witnesses but will wait for Kimble’s office to act.That request came as the original investigation expanded, looking into misuse of school [...]
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FBI: Gunman who shot congressman had no target in mind
Adrift and nearly out of money after three months of living out of his van in the Washington area, the gunman who shot a top House Republican and four other people on a Virginia baseball field didn't have any concrete plans to inflict violence on the Republicans he loathed, FBI officials said Wednesday.
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Kushner meets Israeli PM amid breakthrough hopes
President Donald Trump has tasked Jared Kushner with the ambitious goal of laying the groundwork for what he calls the "ultimate deal" — but deep divisions remain, clouding chances of a significant breakthrough in one of the longest Mideast crises.
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LIGHT LUNCH: Jockeys masterfully avoid loose horse after it unseats rider
Shortly after Sunday's fifth race began at Minnesota's Canterbury Park, Tiz a Princess unseated jockey Patrick Canchari and jumped over the inside rail fence.
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Congress hears sinister tale of Russia election meddling
The Russians "used fake news and propaganda and they also used online amplifiers to spread the information to as many people as possible," Bill Priestap, the FBI's top counterintelligence official, told the Senate Intelligence committee.
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Queen's elderly husband Prince Philip in London hospital
The palace didn't paint a dire picture of his situation, but there are concerns for Philip because of his advanced age. He turned 96 earlier this month, and in May announced that he was stepping down from public life.
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Milwaukee jurors acquit ex-cop in killing of black man
Jurors found that Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was justified when he shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith after a brief foot chase following a traffic stop Aug. 23. Smith had a gun when he ran, but the case hinged on whether he was a threat when Heaggan-Brown fired the shot that killed him.
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Canadian man charged in stabbing of airport officer in Flint
The criminal complaint says Ftouhi stabbed Lt. Jeff Neville with a large knife and declared "Allahu akbar," the Arabic phrase for "God is great." The FBI, which is leading the investigation, said Ftouhi said something similar to "you have killed people in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die."
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RISE: 840-year-old mosque destroyed; fake quake; population projections
The Islamic State group destroyed Mosul's al-Nuri mosque and its iconic leaning minaret known as al-Hadba when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures Wednesday night, Iraq's Ministry of Defense said.
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Askar competent in threat case
COLDWATER — Ziad Askar, 22, is competent to stand trial for threatening an owner of Coldwater Gun and Pawn with a gun last November.Doctors at the Michigan Forensic Center in Ypsilanti reported to the District Court that Askar understood the charges and could aid in his defense. Defense attorney Tom Schaeffer told Branch County Judge Brent Weigle “he’s good today,” but the attorney had difficulty dealing with him at first.The judge said [...]
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Hilderly named Superintendent of BCS
BRONSON — On Tuesday, the Bronson Community Schools Board of Education offered the superintendent position to Richard Hilderly, a principal at Tecumseh Public Schools.The board reached the 6-1 decision after a second round of interviews with three candidates. It took several hours of discussion among themselves and with the audience of teachers and community members to reach the decision. Mark Dobias of the Michigan Association of School Board executive search services [...]
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