The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, The Associated Press has learned, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals from the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. … Read more
The Titan submersible sent its final message just six seconds before it lost contact with the surface during its ill-fated dive to the Titanic, according to a US Coast Guard body probing the vessel’s implosion in June 2023, which killed all five people on board. “Dropped two wts,” the Titan’s text to its mother ship … Read more
Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, may have been lying in wait for nearly 12 hours along the tree line at Trump’s golf club, authorities said in a criminal complaint on Monday. Routh, 58, was charged with possession of a firearm while a convicted felon and … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. Afghanistan is one of two countries in which the spread of the potentially fatal, paralyzing disease has never been stopped. The other is Pakistan. News of the suspension was relayed to U.N. agencies right before the September … Read more
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is safe after what the FBI says appeared to be an assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Law enforcement officials said US Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman on Sunday in some bushes near the property line with an … Read more
The identity of a man in custody after allegedly attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf course has been revealed. US news outlets have identified the man arrested by Martin County officials after fleeing the scene was Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii. Ryan Wesley Routh has been identified as the man arrested … Read more
Former president Donald Trump is safe following what the FBI says “appears to be an attempted assassination” while playing golf two months after another attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania. Local authorities said the US Secret Service agents protecting Trump fired at a man pointing an AK-style rifle with a scope as … Read more
ROME — Italy’s army will guard medical staff at a hospital in the southern Calabria region starting Monday, after a string of violent attacks on doctors and nurses by enraged patients and relatives across Italy, local media reported. Prefect Paolo Giovanni Grieco approved a plan to reinforce the surveillance services already operated by soldiers on … Read more
The FBI said Sunday it “is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination” of former President Donald Trump, who his campaign said earlier in the day “is safe following gunshots in his vicinity”. The afternoon incident at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, comes two months after an assassination attempt against … Read more
Rock band Jane’s Addiction has issued an apology and announced the cancellation of their next concert after band members Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell were seen in an on-stage altercation at a recent show. “We want to extend a heartfelt apology to our fans for the events that unfolded last night,” the statement posted to … Read more
