A magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the northern coastal city of Acapulco, Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least one person, authorities said. Buildings swayed in Mexico City, the country’s capital, about 290 kilometers north of Acapulco.
Two mothers mourn a murder, as one of them testifies against her own son, because it has torn families apart and cut short the life of a young woman who dreamed of graduating from college and running her own business.
The Taliban on Tuesday appointed an interim government dominated by its own ethnic Pashtun leaders, setting aside its own pledges to form an inclusive administration with members of the country’s various groups.
A 6-month-old girl was found eaten alive in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her mother briefly left her side to go to the bathroom and when she returned she found the dog attacking her little girl.
The Biden administration plans to request funds from Congress to bring some 95,000 Afghans to the United States and help resettle them, a sign of both U.S. commitments to allies and the likelihood that efforts to evacuate them will drag on for months.
The death of a 6-year-old girl who was vacationing with her family at a Glenwood Springs amusement park in western Colorado is under investigation. The Post Independent reports that the park will be closed Monday and Tuesday.
A group of 11 men, aged between 18 and 30, allegedly assaulted a teenage girl as she walked home, dragged her into a wooded area and raped her for several hours.
Australian police have helped capture one of the world’s most wanted child molesters. An international report released in 2019 claimed Lanim’s anonymous dark web alias was on the world’s top 10 list of online child exploitation criminals.
At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days.
Two men who intervened to prevent “two girls from being raped” were seriously injured after being beaten, and one of them will need facial reconstruction surgery.
A man in his 20s has died after suffering a shark bite to the arm while surfing in New South Wales, Australia. Despite an hour of CPR and treatment, emergency services were unable to revive the man.
Oil contamination was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana this Sunday, September 5, following the passage of Hurricane Ida. Skimming and containment systems are in place.
Four people – a man, an infant and the child’s mother and grandmother – lost their lives early Sunday in what a Florida sheriff’s deputy called an “active shooting” carried out by a former Marine.
A Chicago man killed in an ambush shooting this week died shielding his infant daughter from gunfire, Chicago police confirm. The victim was stuck in morning traffic on the city’s west side when the suspected gunman pulled up next to his vehicle and fired shots at his car.
A Maryland man is accused of killing his mother and stabbing someone this past weekend has been charged in connection with three cold case murders in Washington, D.C., including one dating back nearly 30 years, authorities said Thursday.
Authorities in New Zealand were so concerned about an Islamic State-inspired extremist that they were tracking him around the clock and were able to shoot and kill him within 60 seconds of him unleashing a frenzied knife attack that injured six people Friday at an Auckland supermarket.