Muscatine, Iowa — Authorities in Iowa are investigating the fatal shootings of six people they believe were killed by a relative who took his own life when confronted by police. Preliminary findings by police indicated a domestic dispute led to the shootings, CBS Des Moines affiliate KCCI-TV reported. Two victims were students in the Muscatine …
BRUSSELS, June 2 (Reuters) – The El Nino weather pattern is forming, and is expected to cause extreme weather around the world this year, the WMO said on Tuesday. Scientists say climate change will make its impact especially severe. The World Meteorological Organization said there is an 80% chance that an El Nino event develops …
-5m ago Senior Iranian officer calls renewed war with U.S. “inevitable,” state TV says A senior Iranian military officer said Tuesday that a resumption of hostilities with the United States was inevitable, as negotiations between Tehran and Washington appeared to stall. “The United States demands our total surrender, and the Iranian nation will never surrender,” …
Tuesday is Election Day in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota, with voters weighing in on competitive primary races for federal and state office. President Donald Trump is looking to advance Republicans who will support his agenda for the remaining two years of his term, while Democrats are working to put …
DAKAR, June 1 (Reuters) – Senegal’s recently ousted prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, announced on Monday that the political party he leads will not participate in the country’s new government, raising the prospect of political gridlock amid a daunting debt crisis. Sonko said in a post on X that he met on Monday with President Bassirou …
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Arlette Basekawike, a volunteer for the United Nations food agency in Bunia, the heart of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, spends most of her time in a small shed outside a health facility preparing meals for patients and health workers. Her hair covered by a pink bonnet, she prepares porridge, omelets and bread …
TOKYO (AP) — A bear injured four people in a Japanese residential area on Tuesday in the latest case of an attack by the animals in an area of the country where bears have increasingly encroached on the human population in recent years. Japan’s Environment Ministry said 13 people were killed in more than 230 …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to move forward with a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said Monday, as the Justice Department also said it would temporarily pause the program’s implementation in compliance with a court order. The potential retreat is a nod …
A 25-year-old man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed a woman to death on an Atlanta commuter train in an apparently random attack. John Elijah Matthews was arrested around noon on Saturday, moments after he stepped off the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority train at the Oakland City Station, said MARTA …
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has moved forward with a vast overhaul of its migration policy, aiming to ramp up deportations and ink controversial deals to build detention centers abroad, in what rights groups compare to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies. “The new regulation will speed up the return process and increase returns …