NEW YORK Leave it to the hipsters of Brooklyn to combine craft beer and sharp objects. Kick Axe Throwing is the first bar in New York City to pick up on a nationwide trend of ax throwing, a growing sport that some enthusiasts hope will take off the way bowling did in the last century. […]

WASHINGTON Senators are expected to press Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on the department’s efforts to secure state election systems as the Senate Intelligence Committee launches an effort to safeguard against foreign meddling in this year’s elections. Nielsen will testify today along with Jeh Johnson, who was President Barack Obama’s head of Homeland Security when […]

WASHINGTON The chorus of women from President Donald Trump’s past is getting louder. Accusations about Trump’s past sexual exploits bubbled up on three fronts Tuesday, with two women pressing court cases and a porn actress publicly needling the president. Trump has so far weathered the rising #MeToo movement, but the latest developments served as a […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck on the road to a Shiite shrine in Afghanistan’s capital today, killing at least 26 people as Afghans celebrated the Persian new year, an official said. Nasrat Rahimi, the deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said another 18 people were wounded in the attack. He said the […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has detained or imprisoned at least 19,000 people accused of connections to the Islamic State group or other terror-related offenses, and sentenced more than 3,000 of them to death, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. The mass incarceration and speed of guilty verdicts raise concerns over potential miscarriages of […]

GREAT MILLS, Md. In the latest school shooting in America, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. This time, the shooter, a 17-yearold student, was killed. A 16-year-old girl, who authorities said had some type of relationship with the shooter, was critically injured and a 14-yearold boy was also wounded. […]

The suspect in a series of bombing attacks that terrorized Austin over the past few weeks blew himself up early this morning as law enforcement closed in on him. Authorities warned of concern that more explosives might still be out there. Authorities had zeroed in on the suspect in the last 24 to 36 hours […]

LAGOS, Nigeria Boko Haram extremists returned almost all of the 110 girls abducted from their Nigeria boarding school a month ago with an ominous warning, witnesses said today. The fighters rolled into Dapchi around 2 a.m. in nine vehicles and the girls were left in the center of town. As terrified residents emerged from their […]