A U.S. Marine has been charged with murder for strangling a transgender Filipina woman to death. Philippine government prosecutors charged detained Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton with murder Monday in the killing of a Filipina transgender woman named Jennifer Laude.
New population projections based on the U.S. Census Bureau show whites will become a minority by 2044 while Latinos, Asians and multiracial populations are all expected to double in size over the next few decades. America will be a nation with a youthful, growing minority population juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining white population.
An American citizen illegally crossed into North Korea and gave a speech denouncing the U.S. The man is believed to be bipolar and has not been imprisoned by North Korean authorities, unlike previous American captives..
On Sunday in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero police clashed with protesters attempting to organize a concert in the city of Chilpancingo in support of the 43 missing students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa that disappeared over two months ago.
On Monday, the U.S. Senate approved legislation to impose sanctions on the Venezuelan government, and President Barack Obama has signaled he would sign the legislation into law.
The Supreme Court refused to allow Arizona to enforce stringent restrictions on medical abortions. That decision has left in place a lower court ruling in Planned Parenthood Arizona et al. v. Humble that blocked the rules that regulate where and how women can take drugs to induce abortion. The measure will remain preliminarily blocked while the case moves forward in the federal district court.
Leopoldo Lopez, the 43-year-old Venezuelan opposition leader who is accused of inciting violent anti-government protests in early 2014, is standing firm to his convictions even as he stands behind bars.
Congress approves $5.4 billion to be spent to fight Ebola and a UN commission issues a report on the socio-economic impacts of the Ebola virus on the African continent and presses for debt forgiveness.
Police in western Belgium stormed an apartment on Monday after reports that gunmen had taken a hostage in the city of Ghent. No one was hurt in the operation, and three men have been arrested.
The hostage situation at a cafe in central Sydney has ended with two people dead, including the gunman, and an unknown number of wounded. The standoff lasted for a whole day, ending in the early hours of Tuesday, local time.
After several delays in hearings, the Liberian Supreme Court decided Saturday to refuse to halt Senate elections scheduled for Tuesday, according to the The New York Times. A petition had been filed to halt the vote because of the Ebola crisis.
According to a statement released on Sunday, Spanish police have arrested four people suspected of carrying out a cyberattack that cost a media website $530, 600 and stopped it from working for three weeks in October 2013. The Spanish news website prnoticias asserts the cyberattacks were organized by a former director of a rival news outlet called Intereconomia.
After a marathon discussion that ran a total of about 30 hours, all countries in the United Nations have agreed to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but that deal is wrought with noncommittal language and lacks any real oversight.
Bolivian President Evo Morales, a socialist who might be best known outside of Latin American politics for calling Israel a terrorist state and kicking a soccer ball around with Oliver Stone while the two men chewed on coca leaves, thinks that too many of the men serving in his army are out of shape. After taking in their leader's complaints about the fatness of Bolivia's finest, security forces have begun to register all of their overweight members.
A missing 11-month-old Houston baby boy was found alive in Mexico on Friday, four days after his mother's body was found stuffed into a refrigerator in the family's apartment
A new phenomena in Venezuela is leading girls as young as 12 to get cosmetic surgeries like butt lifts and nose jobs under their parents' supervision in order to look more like beauty queens.
