HOUSTON (AP) — A jury in Texas has begun deliberating whether a Jordanian immigrant convicted in what prosecutors describe as two “honor killings” will receive a death sentence or life in prison without parole. The Harris County jury began deliberations Monday in the penalty phase of Ali Mahwood-Awad Irsan’s capital murder trial. Deliberations are to […]

Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart, who joined with brother-in-law Bret Hart to form one of the top tag teams in the 1980s with the WWE, has died. He was 63. The Pasco Sheriff ’s Office said Neidhart fell at home, hit his head and “succumbed to his injury” on Monday in Wesley Chapel, Florida. No foul […]

NEWCASTLE, Australia The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse was ordered by an Australian court today to serve his 1- year sentence in home detention rather than jail. Newcastle Magistrate Robert Stone ordered former Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson to be detained at his sister’s house for at least 6 […]

LOS ANGELES Yosemite National Park’s reopening can’t come soon enough for Douglas Shaw. The 20-day closure during peak tourist season at one of the busiest parks in the U.S. cost Shaw $200,000 in lost revenue at his 120-person hotel just outside Yosemite. Most of the park is set to reopen today. The nearly three-week closure […]

UTICA, N.Y. President Donald Trump is daring New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to challenge him in 2020, warning the Democrat that “anybody that runs against Trump suffers.” In remarks Monday night at a fundraiser in upstate New York, Trump said that Cuomo once called him and promised that he wouldn’t run against him. Cuomo’s office […]

LONDON A car plowed into pedestrians and cyclists near the Houses of Parliament in London during the morning rush hour today, injuring three people in what police suspect is the latest in a string of vehicle-based attacks in the British capital. Armed police flooded the area after the incident was reported at 7:37 a.m., hauling […]