Aurora police officers testified in court on Thursday that James Holmes helped diffuse explosives that he rigged at his apartment after the mass shooting left 12 people killed and injured scores more on July 20, 2012.
22-year-old Nicholas John Miller was arrested after wielding a knife and hijacked a school bus in central Arkansas on Thursday morning.Nicolas John Miller reported took 11 elementary school student and their driver hostage that lasted about 10 miles before police ended it in Cabot, Jacksonville police Capt. Kenny Boyd said
Police fired teargas at students in Paris on Thursday, as protests erupted following the deportation of a 15-year-old girl from Kosovo and a 19-year-old Armenian on Saturday. Entrances to several Parisian schools were blockaded by mostly students, even as Interior Minister Manuel Valls defended the detention of Leonarda Dibrani during a school trip and her deportation to Kosovo.
President Barack Obama spoke to reporters, hours after the 16-day government shutdown caused "completely unnecessary damage on [the] economy," he said from the White House. The Senate voted 81-18 and the House of Representatives voted 285-144 to end the shutdown, which enables the government's power to borrow money
