After being closed for nearly 3 years, the Washington Monument is reopening to the pubilc. New exhibits have been installed and visitors can once again ride an elevator to look out from the highest point in the nation's capital. In August, 2011, the...
1. A powerful spring storm swept across several Rocky Mountain States. More than a foot of snow shutdown part of I-80 in Wyoming. Several tornados were also reported in southern Nebraska. 2. Insurgents in eastern of Ukraine said the ballots are all i...
1. Voting took a bloody turn in one town in Ukraine Sunday when national guardsmen opened fire on a crowd outside the town hall. There are reports of death, but not how many. Results of the voting in a twin referendum on sovereignty is not expected u...
New developments in the probe of the ferry that sank off the coast of South Korea killing hundreds. Prosecutors have now detained the president of the company that own that boat in addition of four other employees. It is suspected the ferry was overl...
1. President Obama visits Arkansas Wednesday. Hell tour communities devastated by recent tornadoes. The twisters killed more than a dozen people last month. 2. Across South Africa, voters head to the polls. Its the countrys 5th general election since...
Dozens of demonstrators marched on the Nigerian Embassy in Washington today, demanding stronger efforts in locating nearly 300 teenage schoolgirls kidnapped by radical extremists. At the White House, Press Secretary Jay Carney says an American team i...
1. Fighting in Ukraines Eastern City of Slovyansk continues. The countrys Interior Minister says dozens of pro-Russian insurgents were killed during security operations in and around the city. 2. Authorities in Colorado say they have seen a rise in f...
Ukraine sent an elite national guard unit to re-establish control over the city of Odessa. And troops fought a pro-Russia militia that had seized an eastern city. The twin moves, an apparent escalation of efforts to bring both regions back under Kiev...
1. Federal, State and local authorities are investigating the accident that injured 11 circus performers in Providence, Rhode Island on Sunday. All of injured are said to be conscious and doing well. 2. A wildfire in central Oklahoma has burned at le...
1. Sinn Fein Party leader Gerry Adams was released without charges from a police interrogation center near Belfast. The 65-year-old was held for five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killi...
1. Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments he made in a recorded conversation. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, says he is also fining Sterling 2.5 million dollars and will try to f...
1. Residents of Mayflower,Arkansas pick up the piece Monday after a powerful tornado struck the day before. The deadliest wind killed 14 people and carved an 80 mile path of destruction through suburban little rock. 2. The mayor of Ukraine's second l...
A powerful storm system has struck the central and southern United States. Massive tornadoes ripped through suburbs in norhtern Little Rock, Arkansas as well as Oklahoma. At least a dozen are known dead. President Obama continues his overseas state v...
1. Pro-Russia insurgents freed one of the 8 European military observers being held prison in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, citing medical reasons. Earlier in the day, all eight appeared in public in the first time under armed guard giving assurances the...
Thousands of pilgrams from all over the world gathered at the Vatican ahead of the historic canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII. The current pontiff, Pope Francis, will declare them both saints in a service on Sunday. An explosion l...
