Author: Doug Stanglin
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Hawaii readies emergency plans for potential North Korea nuclear attack
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency will roll out a plan Friday aimed at helping residents and visitors prepare for a potential North Korean missile attack that could come with barely eight minutes warning. While stressing such an event is “currently assessed to be very low,” emergency planners said it is prudent to prepare for the…
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Russian court bans ‘extremist’ Jehovah’s Witnesses
Stacks of booklets distributed by Alexander Kalistratov, left, the local leader of a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation, are seen during the court session Dec. 16, 2010, in the Siberian town of Gorno-Altaysk. Photo by Alexandr Tyryshkin/Reuters Stacks of booklets distributed by Alexander Kalistratov, left, the local leader of a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation, are seen during the…
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Missouri man charged in wave of bomb threats to Jewish community centers
An officer responds to a bomb threat at the Levite Jewish Community Center in Birmingham, Ala. Screenshot from video An officer responds to a bomb threat at the Levite Jewish Community Center in Birmingham, Ala. Screenshot from video
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New home found for boy in ‘heroin’ car photo
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A 4-year-old boy photographed in an SUV while his grandmother and an adult friend were passed out in the front seat from an apparent heroin overdose has been placed in the care of relatives in South Carolina, according…
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Brother of Brussels bomber to represent Belgium at Olympics
Mourad Laachraoui, the brother of one of two suicide bombers who attacked the Brussels airport in March, will represent Belgium at the Rio Olympics in the Taekwondo competition. Laachraoui, 21, won gold at the European Taekwondo Championships in Montreux, Switzerland, on Friday and will compete in the under-59 kg category in Brazil. He will be on a squad of…
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Farook’s coworker: ‘I think he married a terrorist’
The remains of a SUV involved in the Wednesday’s attack is shown in San Bernardino, California December 3, 2015. Authorities on Thursday were working to determine why a man and a woman opened fire at a holiday party of his co-workers in Southern California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 in an attack that appeared…