1. Kenyan security forces have nearly regained total control of an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, two days after it was seized by members of a Somali terrorist group. Thick smoke rose over the besieged mall. Witnesses heard four loud explosions an...
A source tells the Associated Press that the hostages that Al-Qaida-linked terrorists are holding in a mall in Nairobi, Kenya haven't been released. An earlier statement from the Kenyan military said most of them had been rescued. The United Nations...
1. Kenyan police say a major assault by security forces has begun end the two-day hostage crisis at a Nairobi mall. Al-Shabab militants reacted angrily to the helicopters on Twitter. The death toll since Saturday has reached nearly 70. 2. Chancellor,...
This is AP News Minute. Iraqi police say at least 54 people have been killed and more than 70 wounded in an attack on a funeral in a Shiite part of Baghdad. Police say a suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a crowded funeral tent...
1. The US House passed a funding measure Friday to try and avert a government shutdown. The bill also blocks President Obamas healthcare law. The Senate promises to strip that provision and pass a straight funding measure itself. 2. Pope Francis offe...
1. The Washington Navy Yard has reopened for normal operations with returning employees saying they still feel unsettled after the shooting earlier this week in which a gunman killed 12 people. 2. Floods and landslides swept across Mexico, killing at...
1. Officials say suspect Aaron Alexis was able to enter the Washington Navy Yard using a valid pass. And once inside, he opened fire on employees killing 12 and wounding 8 others, with a shotgun he brought with him and handgun he obtained inside. 2....
1. The FBI says the Defense contract employee behind Monday shooting rampage at the Washington Naval Yard had a legitimate pass to get in. Thirty-four-year-old Aaron Alexis killed a dozen people before he died in a shootout with police. 2. Eight peop...
At least 12 people are dead in a shooting rampage at Washington's navy yard. One shooter is dead. President Barack Obama is mourning what he called yet another mass shooting that he says took the lives of American patriots. Obama promised to make sur...
1. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Frances President and the French and British Foreign Ministers as they work out a deal over Syrias chemical weapons. A high ranking Syrian official calls the chemical weapons deal, a victory for Bashir Assads...
A second woman is presumed dead from rising flood waters in Larimer County, Colorado, the widespread flooding has led to hundreds of missing person reports. But officials expect the numbers to drop. Authroties have given the final go-ahead for a dari...
1. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart say they have reached an agreement on getting Syria to destroy all of its chemical weapons. The agreement gives Syria one week to turn over a full list of its chemical weapon stockpiles, wh...
1. Secretary of State John Kerry opened two days of meetings with his Russian counterpart in Geneva Thursday. They hope to settle on the outlines of a plan to secure and destroy Syrian chemical weapons stockpiles and avoid US strikes. 2. In Colorado,...
1. The White House says there is no timeline for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Syria. Press Secretary, Jay Carney says the US isnt interested in delaying tactics, but putting Syrias chemical weapons under international control. 2. A 12-yea...
1. Memorials marking the 12th anniversary of the September 11th attacks are scheduled to be held in New York, at the Pentagon, and around the country Wednesday. The names of the nearly 3,000 victims will be recited on the 9/11 Memorial plaza in New Y...
