| Baltimore station WBFF-TV evacuated after bomb scare Posted: 28 Apr 2016 11:59 AM PDT A television station in Baltimore has been evacuated after employees say a man threatened to blow up the station. |
| Vanuatu tsunami threat over after big quake: scientists Posted: 28 Apr 2016 03:10 PM PDT  A major earthquake hit the Pacific nation of Vanuatu early Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami warning that was cancelled after locals reported no significant damage. The United States Geological Survey said the 7.0-magnitude quake -- originally reported as 7.3 -- struck at a relatively shallow depth of 35 kilometres (21 miles) some 209 kilometres from the capital Port Vila. The National Tsunami Warning Center (NTWC) initially warned the quake, which hit at 1933 Thursday GMT, could generate waves of up to three metres (10 feet) on parts of the Vanuatu coast.
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| Boehner calls Cruz ‘Lucifer in the flesh’ Posted: 28 Apr 2016 07:51 AM PDT  The former House speaker offers a blunt assessment of the Texas senator: "I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."
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| Trump’s ‘America First’ neo-isolationism Posted: 28 Apr 2016 04:33 AM PDT  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2016. After rolling over its opponents in all five Eastern seaboard primaries, the Trump juggernaut entered Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, where the victorious candidate gave a speech intended to add gravitas to his scattershot positions on foreign policy and national security. "The direction I'm outlining will return us to a timeless principle — always putting the interests of the American people and American security above all else.
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| Air strikes on Aleppo hospital kill doctors and children Posted: 28 Apr 2016 11:48 AM PDT  By Lisa Barrington and Stephanie Nebehay BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - Air strikes destroyed a hospital and killed dozens of people in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, including children and doctors, in an attack that a U.S. official said appeared to be solely the work of the Syrian government. The city of Aleppo is at the center of a military escalation that has undermined peace talks in Geneva aimed at ending the five-year-old war. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura appealed to the presidents of the United States and Russia to intervene to salvage a ceasefire that was "barely alive".
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| South Korea: Suspected midrange North Korean missiles fail Posted: 28 Apr 2016 12:50 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea attempted unsuccessfully to launch two suspected powerful intermediate-range missiles on Thursday, South Korean defense officials said, bringing the number of apparent failures in recent weeks to three.
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| A failed pact tells you why Trump is winning Posted: 28 Apr 2016 02:00 AM PDT  Like Stalin and Churchill huddled over a map of Europe in 1944, Ted Cruz and John Kasich began a very odd week by announcing — publicly, for reasons known only to them — that they were divvying up the remaining primary states in order to maintain individual spheres of influence. Cruz would get Indiana (which is next to Ohio), while Kasich would get New Mexico (which shares a border with Texas). Of course, primary voters — unlike, say, Polish peasants — tend to do whatever they want, so all this plotting didn't exactly make Cruz and Kasich grandmasters of global domination.
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| Prescription Drugs Found With Prince at the Time of His Death Posted: 27 Apr 2016 05:20 PM PDT  Two law enforcement sources told CBS News on Wednesday that prescription drugs were found in Prince's possession and at his home at the time of the music icon's death. The sources also said that the local sheriff's department has contacted the DEA about assisting with the investigation into the singer's death.
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| Sanders says to lay off hundreds of campaign workers: NY Times Posted: 27 Apr 2016 01:39 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday he is planning to lay off hundreds of campaign workers nationwide and focus on winning in California, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, told the Times in an interview he planned to remain in the race despite losing four of five states in primary voting on Tuesday, putting him further behind rival Hillary Clinton. (http://nyti. ...
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| Obama to visit water crisis-hit Flint Posted: 27 Apr 2016 08:37 AM PDT  President Barack Obama will next week travel to Flint, Michigan, where a crisis over tainted water has become a focus of the 2016 election campaign, the White House said Wednesday. Responding to a letter from eight-year-old Flint resident Mari Copeny, Obama said he would visit the majority African American northern city on May 4. "I want to make sure people like you and your family are receiving the help you need and deserve," Obama wrote.
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| Ex-House Speaker Hastert gets 15 months, admits sex abuse Posted: 27 Apr 2016 01:26 PM PDT  Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, once one of the country's most powerful politicians, was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison for a financial crime related to sexual abuse of high school wrestlers he coached decades ago. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin called Hastert a serial sex abuser in handing down the sentence, which was longer than the zero to six months recommended by federal prosecutors. Durkin said the sentence would have been even longer if it weren't for Hastert's age, 74, and poor health.
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| Jury convicts ex-Oklahoma reserve deputy in suspect's death Posted: 27 Apr 2016 05:07 PM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff's deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot an unarmed suspect last year was convicted of second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday.
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