Ukranian riot police charged protesters occupying a square in central Kiev early Wednesday, following hours of street battles that left at least 25 people dead and hundreds injured in the deadliest day of the nearly 3-month-old political crisis that has paralyzed Ukraine’s capital. Police armed with water cannons were gaining ground in Independence Square, but protestors managed to find prot... »
Police say between five to fifteen people were killed and more than 160 were injured in a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, late Wednesday. The explosion at West Fertilizer in downtown West — a community of roughly 2,600 residents about 20 miles north of Waco — happened around 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Waxahachie, a town located 45 miles north. It sent flames... »
DEVELOPING: Multiple casualties are reported after at least two explosions rocked the area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the bloody chaos, while some witnesses reported seeing victims with lost limbs. “Somebody’s leg flew by my head,” a spectator, who gave his name as John Ross, told the Boston Herald. “I gav... »