In an incident at the area known as Skid Row, Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a robbery suspect after a brief scuffle, after that man, known only as “Africa,” attempted to grab an officer’s gun as homeless people looked on and an onlooker videotaped the shooting. That video was later uploaded to Facebook. […]
GENEVA—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council for what he calls its “obsession with Israel.” In a Monday speech in Geneva before the U.N. intergovernmental body, Kerry said the group’s heavy focus of Israel’s human rights records “risks undermining the credibility of the entire organization.” “We will oppose any […]
With opening arguments scheduled to begin Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing trial, prosecutors have made a strong case in pre-trial evidentiary filings tying the lone survivor, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to the blasts that killed three and maimed scores. If prosecutors can persuade a jury that Tsarnaev is guilty, however, it’s an open question whether jurors […]
Authorities said North Korea has fired two short-range missiles into the sea, in an apparent protest against joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises launched Monday. South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted officials as saying the missiles fell into the East Sea 490 kilometers from the North Korean port city of Nampo. South Korean Defense […]