TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Donald Trump says the people of Iran are “finally acting against the brutal and corrupt” government. Trump tweeted Tuesday that the Iranian people have “little food, big inflation and no human rights.” He adds: “The U.S. is watching.” It was Trump’s latest comment on the largest anti-government demonstrations in Iran…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bone-chilling cold gripped the middle of the U.S. as 2018 began Monday, breaking a low temperature record, icing some New Year’s celebrations and leading to at least two deaths attributed to exposure to the elements. The National Weather Service issued wind chill advisories covering a vast area from South Texas…
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers, celebrity entertainers and tourists from around the world will pack into Times Square on Sunday for what’s expected to be a flashy but frigid start to the new year. Revelers are likely to begin lining up in the bitter cold in the early afternoon, hours…
By MARY ESCH, Associated Press Dress in layers, lay off the booze and bring some hand warmers. Those are some of the tips offered for the huge crowd of revelers expected in Times Square for what could be one of the coldest New Year’s Eve ball drops on record. Brutal weather has iced plans for scores…
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they suspect made a hoax emergency call that resulted in a SWAT police officer fatally shooting a man at the door of his own home in Kansas, law enforcement officials said Saturday. Wichita Deputy Police…
CAIRO (AP) — President Donald Trump is condemning an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt Friday. The White House says Trump spoke with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi after the attack by a gunman in Helwan killed at least eight members of Egypt’s long-suffering minority community as well as a police officer. Trump “condemned the attack…
By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID JEANS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A preschooler toying with the burners on his mother’s stove accidentally sparked New York City’s deadliest fire in decades, an inferno that quickly overtook an apartment building and blocked the main escape route, the fire commissioner said Friday. A dozen people died , and…
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rose Marie chafed at being a supporting player in the shadow of Mary Tyler Moore’s fetching suburban housewife on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” But it was as feisty comedy writer Sally Rogers that Marie stretched the narrow confines of how women were portrayed on TV…
By JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people and sending other residents scrambling outside into the cold and down fire escapes to safety. The dead included a…
By ILAN BEN ZION, Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City, passing near sites holy to Jews, Christians and muslims — and ending at the Western Wall with a station named after President Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz’s plan, currently in…