For some Detroit services, call the D.I.Y. Dept. Detroit may be broke but it will soon have a first-rate motor pool, featuring 23 new ambulances and a fleet of 100 new police cars. Some city parks also are getting tender loving care. New fruit trees and shrubs have been planted, and mowing crews are beginning to make the rounds to keep the green spaces tidy. More
Widow of bombing suspect hires criminal lawyer The widow of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has hired a criminal lawyer with experience defending terrorism cases as she continues to face questions from federal authorities. More
Russia had elder Boston suspect under surveillance Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police killed a Canadian jihadist, a security official told The Associated Press.... More
Adichie focuses on Nigeria's present for new novel Modern life in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, has become almost a character itself in novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's new book, "Americanah." Within its pages, one catches self-acknowledged glimpses of the writer herself, who shot to fame with her previous novel, a love story set during Nigeria's civil war entitled "Half of a Yellow Sun." More
Bombing suspects' mom also in terror database Two government officials tell The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies added the Boston bombing suspects' mother to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack.... More
Have you heard about the free-range, wild monkeys of Dania Beach? Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, I was captivated by the colony of vervet monkeys living near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. These fascinating creatures, now numbering around 40, are descendants of escapees from the Dania Chimpanzee Farm breeding facility.
By JILL COLVIN and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ran on a return to his “America First” foreign policy platform. The U. S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars.
But since winning a second term, the president-elect has been embracing a new imperialist agenda, threatening to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland — perhaps by military force — and saying he will use economic coercion to pressure Canada to become the nation’s 51st state.
“Canada and the United States, that would really be something.
Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital.
Thursday’s events conclude six days of national funeral rites for the 39th president who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
All of Carter’s living successors are expected to attend the Washington funeral, including President-elect Donald Trump, who paid his respects before Carter’s casket Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda.
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information.
TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a plea agreement that would spare him and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty in al-Qaida’s notorious Sept.