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  July 30, 2025 4:04 AM GMT+6 Updated 5 hours ago A man holding a rifle walks into an office building at 345 Park Avenue shortly before a shooting that killed several people, in the Midtown Manhattan district of New York City, U.S. July 28, 2025, in a still image taken from surveillance video. Surveillance Camera/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON/NEW YORK , July 29 (Reuters) - Cameras at 345 Park Avenue flagged an approaching gunman on Monday as a potential threat that required immediate attention, seconds before he burst into the office skyscraper's lobby and  began firing , according to two former federal officials familiar with New York building security systems. A still frame of CCTV footage obtained by Reuters and timestamped 6:26:52 p.m . ET – just over a minute before police received the first emergency call about the mass shooting - shows a man holding an assault-style rifle at his side. A computer-generated bright yellow box around him in the image indicates the use o...

  A flight attendant accused of secretly filming young girls in airplane lavatories has been sentenced to just under 20 years in prison BOSTON --  A flight attendant accused of taping his cellphone to the lid of an airplane toilet to  secretly film young girls  was sentenced to just under 20 years in prison Wednesday. Former American Airlines flight attendant Estes Carter Thompson III received a sentence of 18.5 years , followed by five years of supervised release. Boston U.S. District Court Judge Julia Kobick called his behavior “appalling" and said child victims' “innocence has been lost” because of his actions. Thompson was arrested and charged in January 2024 in Lynchburg, Virginia, after authorities said a 14-year-old girl on his flight discovered his secret recording setup in the lavatory. He was indicted last year on one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child sexual abuse images depicting a prepubescent mino...

  Aerial image from a video provided by WEWS shows police working at the scene were officers were wounded and a man was killed in an exchange of gunfire on Wednesday in Lorain, Ohio.   WEWS/AP Lorain, Ohio AP  —  An armed man lying in wait on a dead-end street shot and wounded two Ohio police officers when they parked their patrol vehicles in an undeveloped industrial park to eat lunch Wednesday, and an officer driving into the scene in response to their call for help also was shot and seriously injured, officials said. The shooter “was shot on scene and was pronounced deceased,” said Michael Failing, the acting police chief in Lorain, about 25 miles west of Cleveland . The man “had an arsenal of weapons with him,” said Failing, who did not share further details on that and noted that the available information about the shooting was preliminary. James Welsh, the police chief in nearby Elyria whose department is investigating what happened, told reporters earlier ...

  Getty Images Erik Menendez has been diagnosed with a "serious medical condition", his lawyer has told multiple US news outlets. The news comes weeks before he and his brother, Lyle, are set to appear at a parole hearing after spending decades in prison for the murders of their parents. The lawyer did not provide further details about the medical condition. The BBC has asked for comment. A number of US outlets are reporting that Menendez has a kidney issue, although this has not been publicly confirmed. Menendez was taken from a San Diego prison, in which he has been held for years, to an outside medical facility on Friday. The California state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told local outlet CBS 8 that Menendez was in a "fair condition", but that it could not give further details. The brothers, who have been behind bars for 35 years, were resentenced in May to 50 years to life in prison for the killings of Kitty and José Menendez, in 1989. They ...

  Sectarian clashes have continued in southern Syria despite an "immediate ceasefire" announced by the country's president. Reports say that Druze fighters on Saturday pushed out Bedouin gunmen from the city of Suweida - but fighting continued in other parts of the province. This has not been verified by the BBC. Government forces deployed earlier this week by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa were blamed for joining in attacks on the Druze. More than 900 people are reported to have been killed in the past week. All sides are accused of atrocities. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio , demanded an end to "the rape and slaughter of innocent people" in Syria, in a post on X on Saturday. Rubio wrote: "If authorities in Damascus want to preserve any chance of achieving a unified, inclusive and peaceful Syria free of ISIS [Islamic State] and of Iranian control they must help end this calamity by using their security forces to prevent ISIS and any other vi...