The Washington PostEbola World Digest: Oct. 18, 2019The Washington PostSubway service in Chile’s capital was suspended Friday, trapping hundreds of thousands of commuters on their way home from work, after high school students flooded subway stations, jumping turnstiles,
The Washington PostConspiracies Honduran president’s brother convicted in drug conspiracy caseThe Washington PostThe brother of the Honduran president was convicted Friday in a sweeping drug conspiracy case in New York City after prosecutors said he relied on “state-sponsored drug trafficking” enabled by the Central
The Washington PostBullyingQuote Symbol …The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/18/bullying-may-have-caused-an-year-old-hang-himself-his-sister-according-call/
The Washington PostParole She was freed after live-streaming a wreck that killed her sister. Then she crashed again.The Washington PostAs it turns out, Sanchez received six years in prison last year over the 2017 incident, but she was released early on parole last month. Sanchez, now 20, was arrested Thursday after her failure to yield
The Washington PostNews (U.S.) Surge of Mexican migrants is new challenge for Trump border crackdownThe Washington Post - By Nick Miroff, Mary Beth Sheridan, Kevin SieffA sudden increase in the number of Mexican families and asylum seekers trying to cross into the United States has raised fears of a new border crisis, frustrating Department of Homeland Security officials
The Washington PostBirds A bird struck a Navy ‘doomsday’ plane. It caused millions in damage.The Washington Post - By Allyson ChiuThe Navy’s “doomsday” plane wasn’t supposed to be on the ground in Maryland for long. Instead, the E-6B Mercury — a flying communications and command post designed to play a critical role during a nuclear
The Washington PostTennessee Supreme Court Tennessee executed a suspected killer. Attorneys say the real culprit may be behind a vicious attack in Missouri.The Washington Post - By Antonia Noori FarzanWhen Thomas Bruce was charged last year with a shocking crime, investigators found something strange: He had a clean criminal record. In November 2018, the former Missouri pastor allegedly posed as a at
The Washington PostBank Robbery He wrote a novel about robbing banks — and was just charged in a real-life heist. Again.The Washington PostThe driver of the Sentra was identified as 68-year-old Ralph Griffith of Vancouver, Wash. He had been convicted of bank robbery in the 1980s and early 2000s and had written books glorifying heists — and
The Washington PostDemocrats This activist says Democrats and liberals can’t be afraid to talk about race and politicsThe Washington Post - By Vanessa WilliamsAbout US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter . Steve Phillips says many Democratic Party leaders and liberal political
The Washington PostSecurity Muslim families kept off ferry over ‘security issue’ were discriminated against, complaint saysThe Washington Post - By Michael Brice-SaddlerThree Muslim families say they were discriminated against by being denied admission on a New York City Ferry over a dubious “security issue,” according to a complaint filed Tuesday to the city’s Commission
The Washington PostPrenatal Development National Digest: Man faces manslaughter charges in death of fetus after gun goes offThe Washington PostA South Dakota man has been charged with second-degree manslaughter after police say he negligently shot his pregnant wife, killing the fetus. Sheldon Pettibone, 22, of Sioux Falls told police he was his
The Washington PostChina World Digest: Oct. 17, 2019The Washington PostChina has charged two Americans working for an educational organization with illegally moving people across borders and plans to put them on trial, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. Jacob Harlan and
The Washington PostEric Trump Trump has awarded next year’s G-7 summit of world leaders to his Miami-area resort, the White House saidThe Washington Post - By Toluse Olorunnipa, David A. Fahrenthold, Jonathan O'ConnellPresident Trump has awarded the 2020 Group of Seven summit of world leaders to his private company, scheduling the summit for June at his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Florida, the White House
The Washington PostNews (U.S.) Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoorsThe Washington Post - By Steven MufsonClick any temperature underlined in the story to convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit DOHA, Qatar — It was 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius) in the shade outside the new Al Janoub soccer
The Washington PostWorld News A Cuban immigrant asked for asylum. After months of detention, he killed himself, ICE says.The Washington Post - By Teo ArmusAfter an Oct. 9 immigration court hearing, Roylan Hernandez-Diaz was angry and disappointed. The 43-year-old asylum-seeker had been told he needed to provide more evidence of the political attacks he faced
The Washington PostElijah Cummings Elijah Cummings, Baltimore congressman and civil rights leader, dies at 68The Washington Post - By Jenna PortnoyElijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in
The Washington PostHuman Trafficking She was sex-trafficked and then criminally charged. Now she’s asking for a pardon.The Washington Post - By Marisa IatiHope Zeferjohn’s soon-to-be pimp found her 100 miles away from where they had met through her family. He had pretended to be her father so authorities would tell him where she now lived. Zeferjohn was
The Washington PostChicago, IL Chicago schools shut down ahead of expected teachers strikeThe Washington PostTeachers in the third-largest U.S. school district are expected to go on strike Thursday for the first time in seven years after contract negotiations between Chicago Teachers Union and city officials
The Washington PostIranian World Digest: Oct. 16, 2019The Washington PostIran has been holding a second French researcher in custody for months, France’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, denouncing the detention as “unacceptable” and demanding his release. The confirmation
The Washington PostMental Health Sentenced to 2 days but held for 54: How one man’s jail suicide underscores Mississippi’s mental health care crisisThe Washington Post - By Kim BellwareIn 2017, Robert Wayne Johnson had hit a rough patch. The married father of five had lost his job and was living on the streets. He was also grappling with mental illness, according to his family. The couldn’t
The Washington PostPolicing Woman killed by officer in her own home heard noises outside and drew gun, nephew told authoritiesThe Washington Post - By Derek HawkinsThe nephew of the 28-year-old black woman fatally shot in her home by a white Fort Worth police officer over the weekend said his aunt drew a gun after hearing noises outside her house, according to an
The Washington PostWorld NewsA British family on vacation say they accidentally drove into the U.S. They’ve spent days detained with their 3-month-oldThe Washington Post - By Allyson ChiuThe Connors family says it didn’t plan to be on the unmarked road. Originally from the United Kingdom, the two couples and their three young children were driving near the U.S.-Canada border on Oct. 3
The Washington PostMichigan Michigan judge temporarily blocks state’s ban on flavored e-cigarettesThe Washington PostA Michigan judge temporarily blocked the state’s weeks-old ban on flavored e-cigarettes Tuesday, saying it may force adults to return to smoking more harmful tobacco products and has irreparably hurt businesses.
The Washington PostPolicing World Digest: Oct. 15, 2019The Washington PostOne of 13 Russians indicted by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III for alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election was released Tuesday by Belarus, where she had been detained since Sunday on the
The Washington PostTongass National Forest Trump administration issues plan to lift limits on logging in the largest intact temperate rainforest in North AmericaThe Washington Post - By Washington Post StaffPresident Trump ordered a reversal of the longstanding limits on tree cutting in the Tongass National Forest at the request of Alaska’s top elected officials, on the grounds that it will boost the local
The Washington PostNews Cyntoia Brown-Long apologizes to family of man she killed while allegedly being traffickedThe Washington PostIf Allen’s family and friends were watching her on the “Today” show, Brown-Long said, she would say she understood their disappointment that she had been granted clemency. “Of course, I would tell them
The Washington PostNews (U.S.) A man drove to a police station with a corpse in his car. He confessed to four slayings, cops say.The Washington Post“He just came in and told our dispatcher that I want to confess to a murder, and then just gave it up,” Sgt. Robert Gibson of Mount Shasta told the New York Times. “I have never had someone come in with
The Washington PostPolicing Cop cleared of murder after shooting unarmed, naked man whose last words were, ‘The police are my friends’The Washington Post - By Meagan FlynnA former Georgia police officer has been acquitted of killing an unarmed, naked black man seconds after encountering him at his own Atlanta-area apartment complex in the throes of a mental health crisis.
The Washington PostNews Fort Worth officer who fatally shot woman in her home has been charged with murder, police sayThe Washington Post - By Derek Hawkins, Deanna PaulThe white Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot a 28-year-old black woman in her home over the weekend has been charged with murder, authorities said Monday. The officer, Aaron Dean, who resigned
