El Paso police arrest 2 teens in McDonald’s carjacking, SWAT standoff in far East Side

Following a SWAT situation over the weekend, El Paso police arrested two teenagers accused in a carjacking at gunpoint at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the far East Side. Billy Christian Charles and Elijai Koroma, both 17, on Monday remained jailed on aggravated robbery charges at the El Paso County Jail in Downtown, police officials said. … Read more

The market ‘bloodbath is likely to continue’ with investors set to lose tens of trillions over next decade, Nouriel Roubini says

Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/GettyImages Nouriel Roubini cautioned markets to prepare for persistently higher inflation rates. This stagflation era will send both fixed-income and equities tumbling over the next decade. “This bloodbath is likely to continue,” Roubini wrote. World economies are facing a “megathreatened age,” with stagflation set to become a core driver of major market … Read more

Drones show how Israeli bombs turned Gaza into moonscape

(Reuters) – Drone footage shot by Reuters over Gaza before and after the start of Israel’s assault on the Palestinian enclave show a busy urban area, with children playing and people going about their chores – then an eerie moonscape of crumpled buildings and mounds of rubble stretching for block after block. The pictures filmed … Read more

In South Carolina homecoming, Haley’s ‘town hall’ turns into a full-blown rally

BLUFFTON, S.C. — Waiting for Nikki Haley inside a college gymnasium on Monday, 2,500 people packed into folding chairs and onto bleachers, dancing and waving signs to the beat of “You Give Love a Bad Name” and “Crazy Train.” Outside, a line of hundreds more in quarter-zip pullovers and sweater vests snaked around the building … Read more