NEW YORK The blue and gray stripes struck Jillian Eisman like a lightning bolt. She was rummaging through a packed closet during a Long Island tag sale when she immediately recognized the symbol of horror and hate: A jacket worn by a prisoner at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp during World War II. “I knew […]

CANNON BALL, N.D. Protesters clashed with law enforcement late Sunday near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline, with at least one person arrested as protesters sought to push past a bridge on a state highway that had been blockaded since late October. The Morton County Sheriff ’s Office estimated 400 protesters were trying to […]

SAN ANTONIO, Texas The suspect arrested in the ambush shooting of a San Antonio police detective has said he was angry about a child-custody battle and “lashed out at somebody who didn’t deserve it.” Otis Tyrone McKane was being led by police to the Bexar County Jail late Monday when he told reporters that he […]

KATHMANDU, Nepal A year and a half after a colossal earthquake destroyed hundreds of treasured historic sites across this mountain nation, Nepal today celebrated the restoration of the first major one to be rebuilt — an iconic Buddhist monument topped in gold that towers above Kathmandu. One of the largest of its kind in the […]

TOKYO At first, it was 2011 all over again. “It really came back. And it was so awful. The sways to the side were huge,” Kazuhiro Onuki said after northeastern Japan was jolted today by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake, the strongest since a devastating quake and tsunami five years ago. “But nothing fell from the shelves,” […]

BEIRUT For the first few weeks of her job recycling garbage, Haela Kalawi often went home crying. It wasn’t just the grungy setting — a dimly lit, airless basement where the 31-yearold refugee with a cherubic face slips on plastic gloves and digs into trash-filled containers. It was that as a traditional housewife in Syria, […]

ANKARA, Turkey Following a public outcry, Turkey’s government has withdrawn a proposal that critics said would have allowed men accused of sexually abusing underage girls to go free if they were married to their victims. The proposal, which was scheduled to undergo a final vote in parliament today, would have deferred sentencing or punishment for […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. Opponents of a voter-approved redevelopment project in downtown Burlington have sued to have a Nov. 8 referendum on financing for the project declared invalid. Attorney John Franco, representing two residents and a group called Coalition for a Livable City, announced Monday that they had filed the lawsuit on Friday. “There was a big […]