ISLAMABAD—A group of heavily armed Taliban suicide bombers stormed Afghanistan’s parliament Monday as the House was in session to decide whether to endorse Defense Minister-designate Masoom Stanekzai. Witnesses reported a series of explosions and gunfire from inside the building following the raid. The attack began with a massive blast at the main gate. Afghan […]
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday there is neither a desire for a return to a Cold War nor for a new conflict with Russia, and that economic sanctions are having an effect in countering Russian “aggression” in Ukraine. He spoke at a forum in Berlin, a city that once symbolized the Cold War, […]
A 8,500 year old male skeleton discovered in 1996 in Columbia River in Washington State has been the focus of a bitter dispute between Native Americans and American scientists, and even within the American scientific community. Craniometric analysis showed that Kennewick Man, as the skeleton was named, resembled populations in Japan, Polynesia or even Europe, […]
21-year-old Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman that slaughtered nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church on Wednesday night is now in custody after a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina 2520 miles from the scene, police say. The traffic stop was made after an alert citizen spotted the car that Roof was driving and […]