PHOTOS: Cardinals’ Oscar Taveras dies in car accident
Authorities say St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras has died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic.
View ArticlePHOTOS: Unmanned NASA rocket explodes after liftoff
These images taken from video provided by NASA TV show Orbital Sciences Corp.’s unmanned rocket blowing up over the launch complex at Wallops Island, Va., just six seconds after liftoff on Tuesday,...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crashes in Mojave Desert
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — A Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket exploded Friday after taking off on a test flight, killing one person aboard and seriously injuring another while scattering wreckage in...
View ArticlePHOTOS: President Obama awards Medal of Honor to Civil War hero
President Barack Obama on Thursday recognized the heroism of a Union Army officer who was killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, an honor that was more than 150 years in the making. Obama said he was...
View ArticlePHOTOS: World Trade Center workers rescued from dangling scaffolding
New York City firefighters have cut window glass and rescued two window washers trapped on scaffolding dangling 69 stories up the side of 1 World Trade Center. The fire department says the workers were...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Families of 43 missing Mexican students cling to hope
Maria Telumbre knows fire. She spends her days making tortillas over hot coals, and experience tells her a small goat takes at least four hours to cook. So she refuses to believe the government’s...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Confiscated items on display at JFK International Airport
Confiscated items on display at JFK International Airport on November 18, 2014 in New York City. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), displayed a cash of weapons and prohibited items taken...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Lake-effect snow buries Western New York
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Lake-effect snow pummeled areas around Buffalo for a second straight day, leaving residents stuck in their homes as officials tried to clear massive snow mounds with another storm...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Shooting at Florida State University leaves 1 dead, 3 injured
The gunman who shot three people at Florida State University’s library early Thursday before being killed by police was a lawyer who graduated from the school, a law enforcement official told The...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Grand jury decision sparks more protests over Michael Brown’s death
Protests picked up in the St. Louis area ahead of the grand jury’s decision of whether to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri on August...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes heart surgery
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a heart stent implanted Wednesday to clear a blocked coronary artery but was expected to be back at work for the start of next week, court officials said....
View ArticlePHOTOS: Ferguson Protests in Denver following grand jury decision
Photos from the last two nights of protests in Denver, Colorado over the announcement that a grand jury has concluded not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting and death of 18-year-old...
View ArticlePHOTOS: America celebrates Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving day: America’s tradition of big turkey dinners with family, parades, shopping and being thankful.
View ArticlePHOTOS: Protests after no indictment in Eric Garner chokehold death
People took to the streets across New York City protesting the grand jury decision to not indict New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo for Eric Garner’s chokehold death on December 3, 2014 in New...
View ArticlePhotos: Violence mars Berkeley protest for second night
A protest over the killings in Missouri and New York of two unarmed black men became violent for the second night in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 7, into early Monday morning. Police used teargas...
View ArticlePhotos: Violence mars Berkeley protest for second night
A protest over the killings in Missouri and New York of two unarmed black men became violent for the second night in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 7, into early Monday morning. Police used teargas...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Maryland plane crash kills six
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — A small, private jet slammed into a house Monday, killing a woman and her young sons inside the home and three people on the aircraft, authorities said. The jet crashed around...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Families of 43 missing Mexican students cling to hope
Maria Telumbre knows fire. She spends her days making tortillas over hot coals, and experience tells her a small goat takes at least four hours to cook. So she refuses to believe the government’s...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Confiscated items on display at JFK International Airport
Confiscated items on display at JFK International Airport on November 18, 2014 in New York City. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), displayed a cash of weapons and prohibited items taken...
View ArticlePHOTOS: National March Against Police Violence
Thousands of people marched in Washington D.C., New York and Pennsylvania on the heels of two grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men.
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