A bicyclist who struck and killed a pedestrian in San Francisco last year has pleaded guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
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‘Scene From Hell’ At Site Of Spanish Train Crash
The death toll is approaching 80, scores more were wounded and the eyewitness accounts are sobering in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, after Wednesday’s crash of a high-speed passenger train.
Gas Well On Fire After Blowout In Gulf Of Mexico
A natural gas well off the coast of Louisiana was on fire Wednesday, one day after a blowout forced 44 workers to evacuate.
The NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Email
Over the past weeks, we have learned the National Security Agency has the capability to collect and sift through massive amounts of electronic data produced throughout the world.
Book News: Chuck Palahniuk Working On ‘Fight Club’ Sequel
Chuck Palahniuk says he is working on a sequel to Fight Club, his 1996 cult novel about underground fighting matches. The sequel, which will be a “dark and messy” graphic novel series, doesn’t yet have a publisher.
Russia May Soon Let Snowden Leave Airport
Nothing about where “NSA leaker” Edward Snowden may go next ever seems to be certain. Remember the flurry of excitement about that Aeroflot flight he was supposedly on (but wasn’t)?
No-Fly Zone In Syria Could Cost $1B A Month, U.S. General Says
On the heels of another deadly day in Syria — where about 100,000 people have died in the past two years and several million more have been displaced by battles between government forces and those trying to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime — we’re getting a look at what the USA’s top general thinks about the options available to the U.S. for intervening militarily.
Southwest Airlines Plane Has Landing Gear Malfunction At LaGuardia
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 made a dramatic landing at New York’s La Guardia Airport this afternoon.
LOOK: Cassini’s Version Of ‘The Pale Blue Dot’
Cassini — the NASA spacecraft orbiting Saturn — has beamed back a picture of what Earth looks like from its perspective.
James? George? What Will ‘Baby Cambridge’ Be Named?
Now that he’s been born, the next big moments in little Baby Cambridge’s life will be when he’s seen in public and when the world hears what his name will be.