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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar is dead. Taliban officials confirmed yesterday that Mullah Omar died more than two years ago. A White House statement says the death "represents a chance for yet more progress on the path to a stable, secure Afghanistan."
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says attacks by Jewish extremists on Palestinians "must end." That was his reaction to the death of a Palestinian toddler who burned to death after her home was burned. Jewish extremists are suspected. Israeli leaders have condemned the attack. But the U.N. chief says there has been impunity for what he calls "repeated acts of settler violence."
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. (AP) —The Coast Guard has ended its search for two Florida teenage fishermen who were last seek a week ago. The agency said it ended the search at sunset, as it had announced earlier in the day. The Coast Guard searched waters from South Florida up through South Carolina without success. Volunteers in private planes and boats vow to keep looking for 14-year-old neighbors, Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas trooper who arrested a black Chicago-area area woman after a confrontation that began with a traffic stop had been cautioned about "unprofessional conduct" in a 2014 incident while he was still a probationary trooper. That's according to a disciplinary entry on Trooper Brian Encinia released today. Encinia pulled over Sandra Bland for not signaling a lane change. Their confrontation escalated when she declined to put out her cigarette. Three days after her arrest, she was found dead in a jail cell. The death was ruled suicide.
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — A jail inmate in Arizona is hospitalized after authorities say he pulled one of his eyeballs out of its socket. Officials at the Pinal (pih-NAL') County Jail, just southeast of Phoenix, say the inmate was being held on suspicion of attempted murder and other charges.
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