RAMADI, Iraq (AP) — Six times in the past harrowing month, Um Omar and her family got a knock on the door of whatever home they were occupying in the extremist-held city of Ramadi: It was an Islamic State militant, she said, ordering them to pick up and move with them as human shields because the Iraqi army was approaching.
"Every time the army would advance, Daesh would knock on our door and say, 'OK, time to go,'" the woman said in an interview with The Associated Press.
NEW YORK (AP) — When Ted Cruz sneered at what he called Donald Trump's "New York values" in the Republican presidential debate Thursday, some New Yorkers took it very personally. And some responded about the way you'd expect New Yorkers to react.
The ever-combative Daily News hit the streets with a big front-page illustration of the Statue of Liberty making an obscene gesture under the headline: "DROP DEAD, TED."
