(Reuters) – A Wisconsin State Patrol officer and a bank robbery suspect were killed in a shootout on Tuesday evening, officials said. The trooper began following a car matching the description of the suspect's vehicle around 5:30 p.m. local time in the city of Fond du Lac before the gun battle, Fond du Lac Police […]

By Doina Chiacu and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI needs to strengthen its intelligence programs and information sharing to counter the diverse and fast-moving national threats that have evolved since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a congressional commission said on Wednesday. The 9/11 Review Commission report also said the bureau’s progress in developing […]

(Reuters) – Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. is set to be released from prison on Thursday to a halfway house in Washington, D.C., after spending roughly half of his 30-month sentence behind bars, USA Today reported. Former U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy told the newspaper he spoke with Jackson at an Alabama prison on Monday. […]

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – The Boston Marathon bombing jury on Wednesday saw evidence, including a fuse and a piece from a pressure-cooker lid, seized at the apartment where accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his other brother lived. An FBI special agent described sorting through a debris-filled room that was "like a construction site" […]

Bear strike: U.S. stocks took a beating Wednesday as traders sold high-flying tech shares on the back of an unexpected drop in durable goods orders.

* Jerusalem at boiling point of polarisation and violence – EU report Leaked report says city more divided than at any time since 1967 and calls for consideration of tougher sanctions over settlement building. * Germanwings plane crash: Leaders visit Alps site The German, French and Spanish leaders have arrived together in the French Alps to visit the scene […]

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On its website, which has been down since late December, the company said its survival shelters could be used in the event of a "pandemic outbreak, civil unrest, malicious mobs, biological attacks, nuclear fallout, acts of terrorism or other such …

… Pandemic,” an illustrated story, the CDC uses a character's imagined zombie attack to urge people to prepare for real life emergencies by keeping on hand an all-hazards emergency kit with items like water, batteries, medications and non-perishable …

There will be two official Pandemic Tournaments at 3:00 and 5:00pm. Pandemic is a game based on the premise that four diseases have broken out around the world, each threatening to wipe out a region. The goal of Pandemic is for the players to work …