Venezuela Thrust to Forefront of US-Russia Clashes
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Russia's support for Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro has become the latest flashpoint in deteriorating relations between the United States and Russia, moving to the top of a list of long-simmering spats between the Cold War foes. As the dispute intensifies with both sides trading accusations and entrenched in diametrically opposed…
Read More
Student Who Tackled Gunman Called a Hero
CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) — David Belnap stood on his North Carolina college campus aching from the latest U.S. school shooting as he held a candle and wore a homemade T-shirt with "Riley Howell is a hero" written on the back. Howell died in his classroom Tuesday at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, charging and tackling…
Read More
Vigil Planned After 2 Killed, 4 Wounded in Campus Shooting
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A shooting that killed two and wounded four at a North Carolina university left students scrambling for shelter and prompted fresh calls for ways to keep campuses safe. A vigil was planned for Wednesday on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, where the shooting on Tuesday upended the last…
Read More
Suspect in Synagogue Attack Stuns Family With Radical Turn
POWAY, CA (AP) — The lone suspect in a fatal attack on a Southern California synagogue was a star scholar, athlete and musician whose embrace of white supremacy and anti-Semitism has dumbfounded his family and others who thought they knew him well. John T. Earnest, 19, made the dean's list both semesters last year as…
Read More
Police: 8 Shot, 1 Fatally, In Latest Baltimore Shooting
BALTIMORE (AP) — A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd that had gathered for Sunday afternoon cookouts along a west Baltimore street, killing a man and wounding seven other people, authorities and reports said. Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the gunfire erupted after 5 p.m. on a block in the city's western district of brick…
Read More