Ramallah, West Bank – A new locally-developed app helps Palestinian drivers in the occupied West Bank negotiate traffic at Israeli military checkpoints and uncover routes to towns mainstream providers often miss. Launched in June and designed by Palestinians, Doroob Navigator crowd-sources road closures and traffic data from users. It aims to supplant apps like Google [...]

Mendoza, Argentina – Downcast and sitting in a wheelchair as his historic trial began Monday in Argentina, the Rev. Nicola Corradi didn’t look like the man former students at an institute for the deaf say was the force behind years of “indescribable” torment through alleged sexual abuse. The 83-year-old Italian priest, along with the Rev. [...]

Washington – If President Donald Trump is serious about strengthening gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings, he should demand that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put a House-passed bill strengthening background checks up for a vote, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday. Schumer said the Senate GOP leader is blocking gun [...]

New York – Stocks dropped 3% on Wall Street, their worst loss of the year, after China countered President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat by letting its currency weaken to the lowest level in more than 10 years. Investors fear that the escalating trade war between the two giant economic powers could do lasting damage [...]

Gibsonton – On August 4, 2019 at 1:17 p.m., an employee at the Gibsonton Walmart received a phone call, the male on the line said he would be at the store in five minute and was going to “shoot up your store.” Management immediately called 911 and began to evacuate. Deputies were on scene within [...]

Issaquah – Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires. The region, famous for its rainfall, has long escaped major burns even as global warming has driven an increase in the size and number of wildfires elsewhere in the American West. [...]

El Paso, TX – The shooting that killed 20 people at a crowded El Paso department store will be handled as a domestic terrorism case, federal authorities said Sunday as they weighed hate-crime charges against the suspected gunman that could carry the death penalty. A local prosecutor announced that he would file capital murder charges, [...]

Seoul, SKorea – South Korea and the United States are preparing to hold their annual joint military exercises despite warnings from North Korea that the drills could derail the fragile nuclear diplomacy, Seoul’s military said Friday. Choi Hyun-soo, spokeswoman of Seoul’s Defense Ministry, said the exercises will be focused on verifying Seoul’s capabilities for its [...]

London – A teenager was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Sunday after a 6-year-old child was thrown from the 10th floor viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern art gallery, police said. The Metropolitan Police said officers and paramedics found the injured child on a fifth-floor roof of the Tate. He was taken by air [...]

El Paso , TX – Another victim of a mass shooting at a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Texas, died Monday, raising the death toll for the attack to 21. The El Paso Police Department tweeted that the person died early Monday at a hospital — nearly two days after the shooting — but it [...]