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Devastating cellphone hacks that hijack your most personal gadget and rob you of privacy and money have long been forecast. But even as smartphone users in Asia are beginning to suffer exploding bills and emptied bank accounts at the hands of hackers, U.S. users largely remain safe and blissfully unaware of the gathering threat.Not for long. Criminals have been probing the systems that protect U.S...
A man in Fort Wayne, Ind., snatched his ex-girlfriend off of a city bus, fatally shot her with a shotgun, then took a 3-year-old boy hostage and holed up in a house — only to be shot dead by police snipers, authorities said.After pulling her off a bus, Kenneth Knight, 45, killed Jacqueline Hardy, 49, with a shotgun blast about 8 a.m. ET on the sidewalk in front of dozens of children who were on th...
The names of seven Marines -- the youngest just 19, the oldest 26 years old -- who were killed when a mortar exploded during a live-fire training exercise at an Army munitions depot in the Nevada desert were released Wednesday by Camp Lejeune in North Carolina."We send our prayers and condolences to the families of the Marines and sailors who have been killed and injured in this tragic accident," ...
The names of seven Marines -- the youngest just 19, the oldest 26 years old -- who were killed when a mortar exploded during a live-fire training exercise at an Army munitions depot in the Nevada desert were released Wednesday by Camp Lejeune in North Carolina."We send our prayers and condolences to the families of the Marines and sailors who have been killed and injured in this tragic accident," ...
Kevin Capponi, 36, of Greene, Maine, was backing up his truck and did not see his son, Nathan, playing on a scooter in the driveway when the accident took place at 6:45 a.m., said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. The boy was rushed by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, McCausland said in a statement. Greene is locat...
A man in Fort Wayne, Ind., snatched his ex-girlfriend off of a city bus, fatally shot her with a shotgun, then took her 3-year-old son hostage and holed up in a house — only to be shot dead by police snipers, authorities said.After pulling her off a bus, Kenneth Knight, 45, killed Jacqueline Hardy, 49, with a shotgun blast about 8 a.m. ET on the sidewalk in front of dozens of children who were on ...
The U.S. government on Wednesday offered rewards of up to $5 million each for information leading to the capture or conviction of two U.S. citizens alleged to have become fighters for the Somalia-based Islamic militant group al Shabaab. In announcements posted on its "Rewards for Justice" website, the State Department identified the two men as Omar Shafik Hammami, alias Abu Mansour al-Amriki, and ...
The Pentagon is considering plans for a $150 million overhaul of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- including building a new dining hall, hospital and barracks for the guards -- as part of an ambitious project recommended by the top general in charge of its operations, officials tell NBC News. The proposed spending spree comes amid mounting signs of unrest among Guantanamo d...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged on Tuesday that there was not enough support for the ban in the Senate, meaning it would fail when gun control legislation comes to the floor of the chamber next month. Biden, who has led President Barack Obama's push for tighter gun regulations, said he was undeterred. "We are still pushing that it pass," Biden told NPR in an interview, accordin...
"I love Richard with all my heart," a teary-eyed Carol Beasley testified during the sentencing phase of the trial of her son, 53-year-old Richard Beasley. He was convicted last week of killing three men and wounding a fourth, all lured with offers of farmhand jobs in southeast Ohio in 2011.But despite the emotional plea, the jury on Wednesday evening recommended the death penalty for Beasely. ...
