Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison scored a victory Tuesday night in the Minnesota primary race for the state's attorney general days after domestic abuse accusations against him surfaced.

The FBI has warned banks in the U. S. of an impending heist, called an ATM cash-out, targeting a haul of millions of dollars from banks by thieves using cloned cards for fraudulent withdrawals.        

Humans were less likely to turn off a robot when it begged them to stop an experiment, according to a study from researchers in Germany.        

Carey Dean Moore, 60, will be executed by a new drug cocktail in Nebraska's first lethal injection. The state's last execution was by electric chair.        

A car crashed into pedestrians and cyclists near the Houses of Parliament in London Tuesday and police arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism, heightening tensions in a city that has seen a string-of vehicle-based terror attacks.

An odor coming from the pillar outside a Lancaster, California supermarket led to a disturbing discovery: a decomposing body linked to a lost suspect.        

Pilot Duane Youd flew a plane directly into his own home in Payson, Utah, while his wife and a boy were inside, police say, seemingly on purpose.        

'Of all the places, it is most hurtful when it comes from your own church, that you are going to cause guys to lust after you,' the Michigan woman said.        

God's Little People Cat Rescue, based in a “secluded nature preserved area” on the island of Syros, is looking for someone to look after dozens of cats while the owner is away.        

For the posturing NFL owners did, their attempt to solve the national anthem issue won’t go away. And other things we learned in opening week of preseason.        

Dozens of meteors shot across the sky over the weekend during the annual Perseid meteor shower. See photos of the show from around the world.        

Brooks Koepka is impossible to overlook now, winning the PGA Championship on Sunday with machine-like precision to go along with his back-to-back U. S. Open titles. And it still felt like he was the second billing to Tiger Woods. With roars for Woods unheard anywhere this side of Augusta National,

Shark thriller 'The Meg' became the latest success in Hollywood's sizzling summer, opening well above expectations with $44.5 million. Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman,' about a black cop who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan, finished fifth with $10.8 million.       

An Australian man was searching for fossils when he found shark teeth. They came from a megatoothed shark twice as big as a great white.        

Police in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton, New Brunswick say at least four people have been killed after a shooting. Fredericton police are asking residents to avoid the area and stay in their homes. The circumstances of the shooting are unclear at this point.

Billy Ray Irick, 59, was convicted in 1986 on charges of raping and murdering Paula Dyer, a 7-year-old girl in Knox County.