President Otto Pérez Molina of Guatemala resigned on Thursday to face charges in a customs fraud scandal that has generated a sweeping protest movement of citizens enraged by government corruption. … [Read more...]
Hungary Reopens Train Station, Migrants Still Stranded
Hungary reopened Budapest's main train station Thursday after police ended a two-day blockade aimed at preventing migrants from boarding trains to destinations in the European Union, but it was not clear whether trains bound for Austria, Germany and Slovakia would be allowed to cross the border. … [Read more...]
Dozens Killed or Injured in Bombings at Mosque in Yemen
A suicide bombing in a Shiite Muslim mosque and a car bomb blast outside killed at least 35 people in Yemen’s capital and injured more than 100 on Wednesday, officials said, and Sunni Muslim Islamic State militants claimed responsibility. … [Read more...]
2 Men Awarded $750,000 for Wrongful Convictions in 1983 Murder
One year to the day after a North Carolina judge threw out their wrongful murder convictions, a state commission awarded $750,000 each as compensation to two half brothers who spent three decades in prison, much of it on death row. … [Read more...]
Trees Are Disappearing From the World at an Alarming Rate
Some tropical countries saw an “alarming” surge of tree cover loss in 2014, according to a new report. The report, published Wednesday by the World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch, uses data on tree cover loss — a measure of the removal, natural or human-caused, of all kinds of trees, whether they’re in a forest or on a plantation — from the University of Maryland and … [Read more...]
Marco Rubio’s Energy Plan Is Big on Fossil Fuels, Silent on Clean Energy
Ending the Clean Power Plan, lifting America’s crude oil export ban, and allowing states — not the federal government — to regulate fracking would be some of Marco Rubio’s top energy priorities if he becomes president. That’s according to a preview of his energy plan released Wednesday, ahead of a speech in front of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. … [Read more...]
Soyuz Takes Off for International Space Station with 3-man Crew
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, a Dane and a Kazakh blasted off on Wednesday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station. The rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a Russian launch facility in Kazakhstan, on schedule at 10:37 a.m. with "everything going flawlessly," according to a commentator on NASA television. … [Read more...]
Kentucky Clerk Still Won’t Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
Kentucky's Rowan County Court Clerk, Kimberly Davis, is still refusing to issue marriage licenses to any couple today, including same-sex couples, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against her last night, and now a motion for contempt of court has been filed against her. … [Read more...]