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A demonstrator who got up and shouted "Terrorist!" at Turkey's president during a speech at a hotel was grabbed by bodyguards and rushed out of the hall as others in the emotional crowd pushed, shoved and shouted.It happened at the Marriott Marquis hotel in ...

Chicago has sued United States President Donald Trump's Justice Department over its plan to withhold enforcement grant funds from so-called sanctuary cities.Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Law Department on Monday filed a lawsuit filed in a U.S. District Court ...

New York: Microblogging site Twitter, which is open and accessible to anyone, can be used to help predict people engaged in criminal activity, a study has found. Although "people don't share with the world that they intend to or have just committed a ...

A doctor fired from a New York hospital over a sexual harassment accusation returned to his former workplace with an assault rifle and shot dead a woman doctor and injured six others before taking his own life, the latest incident related to gun violence in the United States. Henry Bello, 45, went on the furious rampage at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital, killing the female physician and seriously wounding six other people, including doctors. The five seriously injured patients were ...

Fighting sex trafficking and forced labour became Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat's life mission.The winner of the US State Department's 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes Award speaks to Rediff.com: IMAGE: Police Commissioner Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat with rescued bonded labour children from Odisha.   Mahesh Muralidhar Bhagwat, the police commissioner of Rachakonda in Telangana, has been conferred with the 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes Award by the United States ...

A shooting at a hospital here today left several people injured, including three doctors, law enforcement authorities said who declared the shooter dead. The New York Police Department (NYPD) said its personnel are on the scene at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital where ...

Heavy monsoon rain heaped new misery Sunday on hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohinyga stuck in makeshift camps in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar, as authorities started a drive to force them to a new site. With food and water shortages already ...

Sixteen years ago, the course of American history changed. Terrorists carried out four coordinated terror attacks killing 2,997 people, injuring over 6,000 people and leaving an indelible scar on people the world over. In the wake of the attack, the families of victims inaugurated a small museum on Liberty Street, Manhattan, called the 9/11 Tribute Center. In June of this year, the museum needing more space to redesign their exhibition after years of reflection reopened their museum ...

The march in Charlottesville, Va., earlier this summer by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists illuminated the growing danger of authoritarian movements both in the United States and across the globe. It’s signalling a danger ...