COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho A man wanted by Idaho authorities in an attack that left a church pastor seriously wounded has been arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents after allegedly throwing items over the fence at the White House, police said. Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said Kyle Odom was arrested at about 5:30 p.m. […]

LIVINGSTON, Texas Condemned Texas prisoner Coy Wesbrook regrets the shooting rampage that left five people dead outside Houston in 1997, including his ex-wife, and says he’s prepared for his execution this evening. “I’ve had 18 years to get ready for this,” Wesbrook, 58, said recently from a visiting cage outside death row. Wesbrook’s lethal injection […]

TEHRAN, IRAN Iran reportedly test-fired two ballistic missiles today with the phrase “Israel must be wiped out” written in Hebrew on them, a show of force by the Islamic Republic as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel. Such phrases have been emblazoned on Iranian missiles before, but this test comes shortly after the implementation […]

NEW DELHI A 15-year-old Indian girl who was raped and set on fire this week died today in the New Delhi hospital where she was being treated for severe burns, police said. Police have arrested a 20- year-old man and charged him with raping and burning the girl Monday in a village outside New Delhi, […]

VIETNAM A scientist and state media say Vietnam has identified an extremely rare set of bi- paternal twins, or twins with different fathers. Prof. Le Dinh Luong, president of the Genetic Association of Vietnam, says DNA testing at his Hanoi lab confirmed the twins have different fathers, the first such case that he knows of […]

AMMAN, JORDAN A website created by two young Jordanians in a coffee shop six years ago has become the most popular site in Arabic, highlighting a vast vacuum: less than 1 percent of the Internet is written in the language spoken by 4.5 percent of the world’s population. The growth of Mawdoo3.com — Arabic for […]

CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md. A Maryland auction house says it is selling a copy of “Mein Kampf ” that once belonged to Adolf Hitler and was taken from his Munich apartment at the end of World War II. News outlets report that Chesapeake City-based Alexander Historical Auctions LLC will offer Hitler’s Nazi manifesto during its March […]