Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday that globally “media freedom has never been so threatened,” as it released its annual press freedom index. The media rights group pointed in particular to democratic countries as places where press freedoms declined during the past year. “In sickening statements, Draconian laws, conflicts of interest, and even the use of […]
The United States’ murder rate has risen over the past two years, driven mostly by violence in a few large cities, a study released Tuesday said. The report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law showed the national murder rate rose 10 percent in 2015 and an estimated 7.8 […]
The U.S. military says it has dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an Islamic State underground complex in Afghanistan. A Pentagon statement said a GBU-43 bomb was dropped Thursday on an IS tunnel complex in the Achin district of the Nangarhar province near the border with Pakistan. The device, called the […]
Police say a shooting at a southern California elementary school left two adults dead and two students critically wounded in what is being called a murder-suicide. Authorities say a male gunmen entered San Bernardino’s North Park Elementary School on Monday, shot dead an adult female in the classroom and then shot himself. Authorities say they […]