The Pentagon announced on Friday that it will spend $1 billion to add 14 interceptors to a West-Coast-based missile-defense system, responding to what It called "faster-than-anticipated North Korean progress on nuclear weapons and missiles."
Crews have recovered the body of a teenager who drowned in Sioux Falls, South Dakota after trying to save her 6-year old brother from an icy river, according to Associated Press. Sioux Falls Fire Chief Jim Sideras said that the 16-year old Madison Leigh Wallace's body was found on Friday afternoon.
An investigation has been launched into the cause of the Western Cape bus accident, killing 24 people, including children when a bus veered off a road and rolled over. The accident happened Friday morning in the town of De Doorns near Cape Town.
Algerian immigrant Ahmed Ferhani, who pleaded guilty to a plot to blow up New York City synagogues, has been sentenced to 10 years in prioson He pleaded guilty in December to terror related and hate crime charges.
