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The French-American academic, 51, was in a hospital recovering from a gunshot wound.

El-Khazzani, 26, was tackled and tied up by five passengers, including three Americans and a Briton, averting what President Francois Hollande said “could have degenerated into monstrous carnage”.

Relatives of the three Americans who tackled and disarmed a gunman on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris say they are proud of the men and relieved they weren’t killed during those chaotic moments. And a British businessman jumped in to help subdue the...

“It makes no sense”, he said of his son, who lived with him in Algeciras until he left for France in 2014. “He seemed to be a good person, no problems, and behavior beyond reproach”, Lycamobile chief Alain Jochimek told Reuters.

Molins said El-Khazzani notably watched an online video inciting radical violence minutes before the thwarted attack. But his explanation grew less and less lucid, the prosecutor said, and the suspect eventually stopped speaking to investigators at all. He said he rallied when he...

The three Americans and their British compatriot were made French knights and awarded the Legion of Honor medal, France’s highest decoration.

Sadler is one of the three American men who became instant heroes on Friday when they tackled and subdued a gunman on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

An article on Salon this week provides some insight on how Trump’s immigration stance and the willingness of so many Republicans to feed into it could bring about the GOP’s demise. Let them take me to court if they want, but by then American forces will have...

The three Americans and Briton who took down a heavily armed man on a passenger train in France last week were honored Monday.

Three young Americans, who are credited with thwarting a terrorist attack on a French train, were given France’s highest honor Monday morning.

Mr Stone was joined by friends US National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and Sacramento State University student Anthony Sadler at a press conference at the US Embassy in Paris.

The gunman – identified by French authorities using DNA as 25-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani – is detained and being questioned by French counterterrorism police outside Paris.

U.S. citizens Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler, along with a British Citizen and a French Actor, arrived at the French president’s residence this morning to receive the Legion of Honor. Photo of Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone. The men tackled and...

The gunman has been identified as 26-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani and is being questioned by French counterterrorism police outside Paris.

This will be for the first time when US residents will get to see a total solar eclipse since 1979. Total eclipses are technically “a fluke of celestial mechanics and time”, adds Space.com, because right now the moon, which is gradually moving away from Earth, happens...