NEW YORK A man involved in a custody dispute who was supposed to turn his 3-year-old son over to the boy’s mother instead threw the child off the roof of a 52-story Manhattan apartment building before jumping to his death, police said. Officers responding to an emergency call reporting two jumpers from the building on […]

HUGHES, ARK. Two apparent tornadoes touched down in Arkansas on Saturday, injuring at least five people and damaging about two dozen homes. St. Francis County Sheriff ’s dispatcher Leslie White said a suspected tornado damaged three homes and injured three people late Saturday afternoon near Hughes, a town of roughly 1,400 residents about 35 miles […]

CHICAGO — A retired astronaut is helping mark the 45th anniversary of the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon. Captain James Lovell Jr. is set to re-enact the Apollo 8’s live Christmas Eve broadcast from December 1968. Astronauts read the first few verses of Genesis from the Bible. According to NASA, millions tuned in. […]

KRASNOYARSK, RUSSIA Two jailed members of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot were released today following an amnesty law that both described as a Kremlin public relations stunt ahead of the Winter Olympics. Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were granted amnesty last week in a move largely viewed as the Kremlin’s attempt to soothe criticism […]

BAGHDAD A new wave of attacks across Iraq killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens today as the government pressed on with its offensive to hunt down al-Qaidalinked militants in the country’s volatile western desert. A government statement said security forces backed by helicopters have been combing the desert near the borders with Syria […]