Mar 30 2010
Authorities unsealed charges Monday against nine members of a militia group, accusing them of seditious conspiracy and attempting to deploy weapons of mass destruction, in a case that highlights a strain of extremism focused against the federal...
Mar 30 2010
According to District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel, Phoebe Prince faced unmerciful bullying on Facebook and in the halls of Massachusetts’ South Hadley High School in the months before her death. But the day of her suicide was particularly...
Mar 11 2010
“I understand that my personal comments were perceived as a personal attack,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters. “These comments do not reflect U.S. policy and were not intended to offend. I apologize if they were...
Mar 9 2010
North Korea has recently created an army division in charge of newly developed intermediate-range missiles capable of striking U.S. forces in Japan and Guam, a South Korean news agency said Tuesday. The report came as North Korea is stepping up its war...
Mar 5 2010
Gaza’s Islamic Hamas government on Thursday banned men from working in women’s hair salons, the latest step in its campaign to impose strict Islamic customs on Gaza’s 1.5 million people. Since seizing Gaza in 2007, Hamas has taken...
Feb 18 2010
A 21-year-old college student arrested Tuesday evening at his parent’s Winslow Township home confessed to throwing his 3-month-old daughter off a Garden State Parkway bridge, police said yesterday. Shamshiddi Abdur-Raheem of Galloway Township,...
Feb 16 2010
On December 31, 2009, in an attack of common sense, the Malaysian High Court overturned a 24 year ban on the use of the word ‘Allah’ by non Muslims(1). The decision unleashed a wave of destructive demonstrations and acts of vandalism across the...
Feb 6 2010
A Santa Barbara judge on Friday sentenced Jesse James Hollywood to life in prison without parole, following the recommendation made by a jury last July. The action by Superior Court Judge Brian Hill came nearly 10 years after the kidnapping and murder...
Jan 16 2010
The United States has struck an agreement with the Cuban government to send medical evacuation flights with victims from the Haiti earthquake through restricted Cuban airspace, an official said, reducing the flight time to Miami by 90 minutes.
Jan 16 2010
Camera maker Kodak has said it will sue Apple and Research In Motion (RIM), the makers of the iPhone and Blackberry, over technology used in their handsets. Kodak has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC).