Firefighters search for victims in the rubble of a home burnt by the Valley Fire in Middletown, California, September 14, 2015. Firefighters gained ground on Saturday against two major wildfires that have destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Northern California, even as people evacuated a week ago from fire-ravaged Middletown returned home, officials said.
Why some Muslims don’t want Ahmed Mohamed’s blackness to be ignored
Ahmed Mohamed is now a 14-year-old with a national following and a long list of powerful people on his calling card. After he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school to impress his teachers, the ninth-grader has become symbolic of the worst -skeletons in America’s closet: growing hysteria and over-criminalization in American schools,…
Powerful quake off Chile slams waves into coastal towns; eight killed
Residents wait on a street outside their houses after an earthquake hit Chile’s central zone, in Santiago, Chile, September 16, 2015. Strong aftershocks rippled through Chile on Thursday after a magnitude 8.3 earthquake that killed at least eight people and slammed powerful waves into coastal towns, forcing more than a million people from their homes.
Hackers dump data online from cheating website Ashley Madison: reports
The homepage of the Ashley Madison website is displayed on an iPad, in this photo illustration taken in Ottawa, Canada July 21, 2015. Hackers dumped online personal details of more than a million users of infidelity websiteAshleyMadison.com, tech websites reported on Tuesday, the latest high-profile cyber attack that threatens to wreak strife in relationships across…
Clinton: I did not send or get classified emails on private account
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at the home of Sean and Vidyha Bagniewski in the Beaverdale area of Des Moines, Iowa July, 25, 2015. U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that she did not use a private email account to send or receive classified information while she was secretary…
Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage nationwide
. Gay rights supporters celebrate after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, June 26, 2015. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the…
Mourners gather early as Charleston comes together after massacre
Mourners arrived in Charleston from around the United States on Saturday to pay their respects to nine black churchgoers killed in an attack this week, with services planned throughout the day ahead of a rally in the state capital later in the evening.