TUAL, Indonesia — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday after a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island. After 17 hours overnight at sea, the men, mostly from Myanmar, filed off the boats and walked to the site of their new […]
California Highway Patrol Sergeant Kevin Briggs has patrolled San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge for 20 years. Part of his job involves preventing suicidal men and women from jumping off the famous landmark. In March 2005, Briggs spent an hour talking this 22-year-old man, Kevin Berthia, back up over the railing. After the rescue, the two […]
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At least 19 people were injured on Sunday when multiple gunmen opened fire on a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans, police said. A 10-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl were grazed by bullets but were in good condition, New Orleans Police spokesman Garry Flot said in a statement. A woman and a man were in […]
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, was killed in Mexico on Thursday, a close family friend said. Shabazz, 28, is perhaps most widely known for intentionally starting a fire that killed his grandmother, Malcolm X’s widow, Betty Shabazz, 63, in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1997. According to media […]
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