On the February 7 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews heaped praise on GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, calling the former New York m... (more)
After hearing stories about repeated violence at Lauderhill Middle, Jenella Oliphant planned to withdraw her 13-year-old niece from the school on Wednesday.
When she arrived at the campus, she saw paramedics and several police officers responding to a fight that broke out out among three boys, leaving one of them hospitalized with minor cuts from a paring knife.
''You hear about fighting and stuff, but not a stabbing -- not at a middle school,'' Oliphant said. ``I a... (more)
Fort Lewis, Washington - The court-martial of First Lt. Ehren Watada, a commissioned US Army officer who refused deployment to Iraq on the basis that he believed the war was illegal, has ended in a mistrial, a military court judge ruled Wednesday.
In a stunning defeat for military prosecutors, Lt. Col. John Head, the military judge presiding over Watada's court-martial, said he had no choice but to declare a mistrial because military prosecutors and Watada's defense attorney c... (more)
Alexander Litvinenko's former boss in the Russian security services has condemned the murdered former spy as a "traitor".
Alexander Gusak, once head of the FSB, the successor to the KGB, said that Mr Litvinenko would have been executed in the Soviet era for betraying undercover Russian agents to the British.
And he revealed that at least one of the betrayed agents came to him offering to kill Mr Litvinenko in revenge.
A Missouri lawmaker wants to scare teenagers out of committing crimes by making all ninth-grade students tour a state prison.
Sen. Tim Green, D-St. Louis, has proposed legislation that would require schools to take all ninth- graders to a state correctional center before their sophomore year starting in the 2009-10 school year.
Superintendents or principals who fail to comply with the law would have their contracts terminated under the proposal.
Fears grew today that a motorist is conducting a letter bomb campaign after the second explosion within 24 hours at firms involved with speed cameras and the congestion charge.
Two people suffered minor injuries at 9am when an item of post exploded as it was opened by an employee at accountancy firm Vantis in Wokingham, Berks.
The company is thought to work with firms involved in speed camera and congestion charge revenues.
Twice as many Islamist terror plots have been disrupted since the July 7 suicide bombings as has previously been made public, Britain's security services insist.
A further six plots, which have been kept secret until now for security reasons, had been planned by groups across Britain since the London Underground and bus bombings in 2005.
Whitehall sources refused to provide precise details on security grounds.
The revelation demonstrates the scale of ... (more)
Summary: Cal Thomas is the latest conservative figure to use the TV show 24 to forecast a nuclear attack on the United States. Conservatives have also looked to the TV series for justification of aggressive interrogation procedures.
In his January 30 syndicated column, Cal Thomas attacked "ideologically decrepit" Iraq war protesters and claimed: "Unlike Vietnam, the Islamofascists won't ... (more)
WCVB-TV in Boston has photoshopped the extended finger from the Mooninite LEDs. Compare the before-and-after photos of the uniformed and helmeted LED disposal expert as he carefully removes the deadly object. Link
BOSTON — More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. The devices depict a character making an obscene gesture.
Boston police said Wednesday night that one person had been arrested, and authorities scheduled a news conference later in the evening to provide details.
Highways, bridges and a section of the Charles R... (more)
The White House announced its visit to a Caterpillar factory in East Peoria, Illinois, yesterday, where President George W. Bush advanced his case for expanding free trade negotiations. But it didn't detail the President's clumsy driving of a giant D-10 tractor that sent the White House press corps and presidential staff scrambling, as reported at a Newsweek blog.
At "The Gaggle," Newsweek reporter Holly Bailey writes that the president clambered into the ... (more)
New Jersey's preeminent gay rights group came to the defense yesterday of Evesham's school district, which is facing questions from some parents for showing a diversity video that includes families headed by same-sex couples.
The video, called "That's a Family!," depicts children being raised in a variety of family structures, including those headed by divorced and single parents, grandparents, guardians, and gay and lesbian couples.
Nine people have been arrested in the UK in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap and possibly kill a Muslim British soldier.
Anti-terrorism police said eight people were arrested in dawn raids across the city of Birmingham and a ninth suspect was arrested later on a nearby motorway.
Some news reports claimed the men planned to behead the soldier and broadcast the act on the Internet.
Counterterrorism officials - speaking on condition of anonym... (more)
A GULF War veteran calmly walked into a police station, put a self-loading pistol on the counter and announced: "I have just killed four members of my family."
David Bradley, said by relatives to have been "possessed by some other entity" was caught on CCTV also handing over the gun's silencer, a pump-action shotgun, more than 400 rounds of ammo and a homemade nail bomb. He tells the woman desk sergeant: "There is no need to be alarmed" but she runs for cover.
Have you ever been driving and find yourself passing what looks to be an unmarked police car (perhaps a black Crown Vic with tinted windows, some aftermarket lights, and a couple ex... (more)
On January 28, The New York Timesreported, in an article by Ian Urbina, that, during the January 27 anti-war protest on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., an unnamed anti-war protester spat at the ground near Joshua Sparling, a wounded Iraq war veteran "who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division." The Times reported... (more)
Public confidence in Tony Blair's government has slumped to an all-time low as Labour battles with the crisis at the Home Office and Cabinet revolts over gay adoption, the latest YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph shows today.
Despite the collapse in trust, the Prime Minister insisted yesterday that the last 18 months had been his "most productive" in office.
In an interview for BBC1's Politics Show, Mr Blair tried to shrug off questions abo... (more)
