ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has claimed that a person linked to a leftist extremist group is behind two attacks this week against Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party, which injured six people. Davutoglu said Thursday a suspect previously arrested for links to the banned DHKP-C carried out Monday’s …
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TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian nuclear negotiator says his team has agreed to grant U.N. inspectors “managed access” to military sites as part of a deal over its contested program, apparently contradicting earlier comments by the nation’s supreme leader. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s comments, carried by state television …
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SPOKANE, Wash. – An agreement has been reached to clean up the radioactive K West Basin on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site. The deal was announced Tuesday between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, which owns Hanford. The …
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BEIRUT – The leader of al-Qaida’s branch in Syria says they have no plans to attack the West and denies that the so-called Khorasan group exists. The Syrian known as Abu Muhammed al-Golani, who heads the Nusra Front, says the aim of his group is to march to the capital …
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OMAHA, Neb. – An Omaha zoo worker is hospitalized in critical condition after being bitten by a large dragon on Sunday. Paramedics were called to the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium Sunday afternoon, and the female zoo worker was taken to the hospital. Few details about the incident were immediately …
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ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. – Six months after getting a 35-year sentence for killing her stepdaughter by forcing her to drink grape soda, a Tennessee prisoner is scheduled for an early parole hearing that could nearly halve her sentence. The Kingsport Times-News reports (http://bit.ly/1AL3fRf ) that a hearing for 58-year-old Mary Vaughn …
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Michael C. Hall uses some unconventional tactics to get into character playing a serial killer on “Dexter.” “I just wanted to see what it would feel like to go out solo and pick somebody, not necessarily at random, somebody who seemed to be alone and just move where they moved …
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David Letterman’s “Oprah, Uma. Uma, Oprah” bit from the 1995 Academy Awards was both one of the most awkward and most memorable moments in TV history. We now have the automotive equivalent. Hybrid, HEMI. HEMI, Hybrid. Yes, this is the world we now are living in. Chrysler’s 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 …
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A full-page ad in The New York Times Monday, paid for by the far-left ACLU, gently reminds President-elect Obama that he must dismantle just about every terrorism-fighting device put in place by the Bush administration. That ad comes on the heels of a press release last week by the radical-left …
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He was classy. Magnanimous. A gentleman. Ripped for being out of touch, he chose just the right touch. A man who critics say only mangled his words. Conjured just the right ones. I’m not talking about John McCain yesterday. I’m talking about President Bush today. McCain gave a classy speech. …
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