A man armed with a shotgun blasted another man in the head in front of terrified Christmas shoppers before fleeing on a bicycle, say witnesses. Shops shut their doors and bystanders scattered after the gunman opened fire in a busy area at lunchtime. Armed police rushed to the scene and found the wounded man in…

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tore into the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, threatening to pull U.S. funding from the international body in response to a resolution condemning President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionHaley’s warning: « The United States will remember this day »The UN General Assembly has decisively backed a resolution effectively calling on the US to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The text says that any decisions regarding the status of the city are « null…

Seit Kurzem regiert in Österreich die rechte FPÖ – und gibt sich ungewohnt handzahm. Hat sich die Partei geändert? 21. Dezember 2017, 20:22 UhrEditiert am 21. Dezember 2017, 20:22 Uhr Eine der ersten Ziele des neuen Vizekanzlers und passionierten Paffers Heinz-Christian Strache: Das Rauchverbot kippen. © Alexander Schwarzl Von Hunden, die bellen, heißt es, sie würden…

House Republican leaders quelled most of the squabbles among GOP lawmakers over a stopgap funding bill and were moving toward a vote, making a bid to force the Senate to accept their trimmed-down version of the plan to avert a government shutdown. The House Rules Committee sent to the House floor a measure that would…

Britney Spears is leaving 2017 — and Las Vegas — behind with a bang. In what ABC is calling the “first television performance of 2018,” the pop icon will treat viewers to renditions of her high-energy hits “Toxic” and “Work Bitch” on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2018. Though the show airs…

Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. The EECOM console—that is, the mission control console responsible for the electrical, environmental, and (initially) communications of the Apollo command and service module—wound up being home to an outsized number of famous names. Perhaps most famous is…