Across faiths, US volunteers mobilize for India crisis

Tue, 11 May 2021 00:08:02 -0400

Volunteers at Hindu temples, Muslim groups and Sikh relief organizations across the U.S. are mobilizing to support India as the world’s second most populous country struggles under a devastating surge of the coronavirus

Today in History

Tue, 11 May 2021 00:00:31 -0400

Today in History Today is Tuesday, May 11, the 131st day of 2021. There are 234 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 11, 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. On this date: In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union. In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces landed on the Aleutian island of Attu, which was held by the Japanese; the Americans took the island 19 days later. In 1946, the first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France. In 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire. In 1953, a tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives. In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the...

Man arrested after tiger shown in a yard of his Houston home

Mon, 10 May 2021 22:46:03 -0400

A Texas man who had been free on bond from a murder charge has been arrested after neighbors found a pet tiger wandering around a Houston neighborhood

Blake Shelton joins drive to help feed out-of-work musicians

Mon, 10 May 2021 21:30:31 -0400

The Country Music Association will provide 4 million meals in cities with large populations of musicians and music industry professionals in its new partnership with Feeding America

Activists demand answers after Black baby killed in shootout

Mon, 10 May 2021 21:25:15 -0400

Officials have not yet said who is responsible for the shot that killed a 3-month-old baby when his father died in a shootout with police on a highway last week in Mississippi

Julian Read, who briefed press after JFK assassination, dies

Mon, 10 May 2021 20:30:47 -0400

Julian Read, whose long career in public relations included briefing the press after the assassination of President John F

Suspect arrested in 6-year-old San Antonio girl's killing

Mon, 10 May 2021 20:19:44 -0400

Police have charged a 23-year-old man with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old girl at a San Antonio car club meetup

Colorado police seek motive in party shooting that killed 7

Mon, 10 May 2021 19:45:16 -0400

Police in Colorado are investigating what led a gunman to open fire at a birthday party inside a trailer park home, killing six adults before he took his own life

Florida clears officials in treatment of Jeffrey Epstein

Mon, 10 May 2021 19:37:50 -0400

Florida detectives have cleared Palm Beach County prosecutors and sheriff’s officials of criminal wrongdoing in connection with their handling of wealthy and prominent sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Prosecutor: No legal basis for trooper to stop Black woman

Mon, 10 May 2021 19:19:00 -0400

A Virginia state prosecutor says a state police trooper had no legal basis for pulling over a Black woman he later arrested