Saturday, August 02, 2014

A U. N.-assisted genocide tribunal will deliver a verdict this coming Thursday in the trial of the two top leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge, whose extremist policies in the late 1970s are blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians though starvation, medical neglect, overwork and execution.

Sixty-five people were killed and dozens seriously burned Saturday by an explosion at an eastern Chinese automotive parts factory that supplies General Motors, state media reported.

New Yorkers enraged by a man's death in police custody see a medical examiner's ruling that blames a prohibited chokehold as a clear indication the officers involved should face criminal charges.

Yitzhak Shuchat, a white member of a civilian patrol group, and Andrew Charles, the black son of a police officer, came face to face in 2008 in a neighborhood with a history of racial strife — that much is certain.

Chinese state media say an explosion at a workshop in an eastern Chinese city has killed between 40 and 65 people.

One of the three Americans detained in North Korea and charged with "anti-state" crimes is a California man raised in the Central Valley oil town of Bakersfield by parents who were petroleum engineers. A handwritten note on the front door of his family home in Bakersfield asked for privacy. North Korea authorities say they are preparing to put Miller and Jeffrey Edward Fowle, 56, of Ohio, on trial, but have not yet specified what illegal activity they did or the potential punishment. The country's state-run media have said Miller entered the country April 10 with a tourist visa but tore it up at the airport and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum. "A lot of us felt like he was really quiet because he had a lot of successful people in his family," she said, adding that Miller participated in the school's academic decathlon team and Junior ROTC.

The House has approved a $694 million bill to address the crisis of unaccompanied migrant youths arriving at the U. S.-Mexico border.

House Republicans pass $694 million bill to address immigration crisis on US-Mexico border.

Arizona executioners injected Joseph Rudolph Wood with a lethal combination of drugs 15 times during the nearly two hours it took for him to die, according to documents released Friday.

A sprawling industrial park near Reno where wild mustangs roam among the sagebrush has become the focus of Tesla's unusually secretive site selection process for its $5 billion battery factory, but the groundwork taking place is no guarantee that the plant and its 6,500 jobs are coming.

The government says General Motors vehicle owners should recheck the company's recall identification website if previous checks indicated their cars aren't being recalled.

A former investment banker who admitted making trades based on inside information to cover child support has been sentenced on New York securities fraud charges to 2 1/2 years in prison.

Warren Buffett's company says its second-quarter profit soared 41 percent on a significant investment gain from a stock-swap deal completed earlier this year. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Manny Roth, founder of the Greenwich Village club Café Wha?, has died.

The gasoline price roller coaster is running a strange course this summer.

Moody's ratings agency has upgraded Greece's government bond rating , predicting a gradual decline of the national debt.

A line of bicycles with a faulty front wheel and light fixture lenses that can shatter are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include aquarium heaters and welding torch handles.

The government has reached its annual goal of giving small businesses 23 percent of contracts for the first time in eight years.