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The Latest: Philippines vows to crush militants after attack

21 people are killed and at least 50 are injured after two bombs explode outside a Catholic cathedral in the Philippines during Sunday morning mass At least 21 people were killed and dozens more injured after two huge blasts went off near a Catholic cathedral on the Philippine island of Mindanao The attack came days after a predominantly Muslim area […]

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‘I watched and wondered which of the flames was my mother as they burned the bodies from the gas chamber’

It was in that moment the now 90-year-old Holocaust survivor understood he would never see her again. He told the BBC's landmark documentary The Last Survivors: "I remember standing there and thinking 'Which of the flames is my mother?'" Frank is one of a few left behind who witnessed one of history's worst atrocities first-hand. Six million Jews, millions of […]

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How Rep. Yvette Clarke dodged scrutiny for $120K disappearing act

In early 2016, a corruption scheme emerged inside the D.C. office of Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Brooklyn). One-tenth of her taxpayer-funded Congressional office budget — $120,000, or enough for eight computers for every staffer — disappeared. If Clarke had been honest and open about what had happened, she very likely would have lost reelection in 2018, when she won her primary […]

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Hunt for Louisiana gunman Dakota Theriot, 21, who ‘killed his parents, girlfriend and her family in shooting spree’

Dakota Theriot is the "prime suspect" in the deaths of his parents, Keith and Elizabeth Theriot, both 50, at their home in Gonzales, Louisiana. He is also accused of killing his girlfriend, Summer Ernest, 20, her dad Billy Ernest, 43, and her brother Tanner Ernest, 17, at their mobile home in Livingston Parish, The Advocate reported. Theriot is reportedly driving […]

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German plan to dump coal would cost a cool $64 billion

Berlin:  Germany will spend tens of billions of dollars to end its use of coal power within two decades, if a plan agreed to  by representatives of the power industry, environmental movement, miners and local interest groups becomes official policy. The deal, hammered on Saturday out after more than 20 hours of intense, often fractious negotiating among a 28-member commission […]

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