NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is expected to appear in a court in New York on Friday, a day after his surprise extradition from Mexico ended a decades-long criminal career that included daredevil prison breaks and murder. A Justice Department spokesman said El Chapo (Shorty in English), once […]
Italian rescue teams say eight people have been found alive in a hotel buried by an avalanche nearly two days ago in the central part of the country. The survivors have yet to be pulled from the snow, but rescuers have been talking with them Friday. Workers dug through the night through deep snow and […]
ATLANTA AND WASHINGTON — For decades, U.S. life expectancy has been rising. In 1950, most Americans could expect to celebrate their 68th birthday. In 2014, most Americans could expect to celebrate their 78th, and live at least another 10 months beyond that. But in 2015 life expectancy dipped by a month, according to data from the […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has commuted the prison sentence of former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of military documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. She now will be freed in May. She is among 209 prison commutations and 64 pardons […]