Authorities on Wednesday found a body inside a destroyed home in Los Angeles County, the third death resulting from the Woolsey Fire which has destroyed over 480 buildings and homes in Southern California.
Read moreThe Camp Fire in Northern California has so far claimed 42 lives, making it the deadliest wildfire in state history – and hundreds of other people remain missing as of Tuesday.
Read moreFamilies and neighbors of those impacted by Wednesday night’s mass shooting at a Western-style bar in California that killed a dozen people gathered Thursday morning at a reunification site to learn the fate of their loved ones.
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“Seeking safety is not a crime.” Aid workers and staff members of Doctors Without Borders repeat these words during “Forced From Home,” an interactive tour educating Americans about the pressures that have made more than 68.5 million people asylum-seekers, migrants or refugees worldwide.
Read moreCalling it “an accident waiting to happen,” the man who built Tennessee’s electric chair told Courthouse News that modifications made to the machine may not do an effective job in Thursday night’s planned execution of a double murderer.
Read moreA Mafia hit man who is said to hate “rats” is under suspicion in the slaying of former Boston crime boss and longtime FBI informant James “Whitey” Bulger, who was found dead hours after he was transferred to a West Virginia prison, an ex-investigator briefed on the case said Wednesday.
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It’s been a busy month for Annunciation House founder and director Ruben Garcia, whose refugee support group in El Paso received 2,000 people this week — 400 more than they received the week before. All had been released from immigration jails.
Read moreJames “Whitey” Bulger, the murderous Boston gangster who benefited from a corrupt relationship with the FBI before spending 16 years as one of America’s most wanted men, was slain in federal prison. He was 89.
Read moreTop CNS stories for today including a federal appellate judge noted Tuesday that the president’s enterprises certainly have a leg up on the competition during a hearing on whether to revive a case calling Trump-branded businesses a threat to the Constitution; a gun group appeared unlikely Monday to breathe life back into a defamation suit against journalist Katie Couric; Controversial former judge Roy Moore says in an interview with Courthouse News that an Alabama ballot initiative allowing the display of the Ten Commandments on state property has the support of the people because it recognizes moral values, and more.
Read moreIt’s the beginning of the end for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s long-dominant position in Europe after she announced she would not seek another term and would step aside as her party’s leader.
Read moreAfter weeks of leaked details and Saudi denials, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to reveal on Tuesday the “naked truth” behind the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. As to how much detail comes to light, however, experts from three countries told Courthouse News that the key lies in behind-the-scenes geopolitical bargaining.
Read moreBavarian voters did what they were expected to do Sunday: They dealt German’s ruling “grand coalition” of conservatives and Social Democrats a resounding defeat at the polls. It’s a defeat that casts doubt on the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Europe’s political lodestar.
Read moreA jury on Friday convicted white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
Read moreA police officer was killed and six of his comrades were wounded when an elderly man began shooting at deputies who came to serve a search warrant, barricading himself in his home with children and spraying bullets across his upscale suburban neighborhood, authorities said.
Read moreA Connecticut family has been reunited with their dog five years after the beloved pet went missing.
Read moreThe leadership of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a linchpin in Europe’s politics for the past 13 years, is on shaky ground in the run-up to state and party elections.
Read moreThe death toll from an earthquake and tsunami that decimated parts of the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi jumped to more than 1,200 on Tuesday as disaster officials began reaching coastal areas that were cut off by blocked roads and downed telephone lines.
Read moreThe thousands of asylum-seekers who cross the Mediterranean Sea each year in dinghies and boats enter a legal, and all-too-often deadly, black hole when they set sail from Africa for Europe, legal scholars say.
Read moreIn his first solo press conference since February 2017, President Donald Trump addressed allegations of sexual and physical assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by recalling his own experiences with similar allegations, blaming Democrats for what he called a “big fat con job” and warning men that we live in a “very dangerous period in our country.”
Read moreA humanitarian rescue group that has been in a public fight with Italy’s new anti-immigrant government over its work rescuing asylum-seekers in the Mediterranean says the Italian government has pressured Panama to cancel its ship’s registration.
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