NEW YORK — A Pakistani-born U.S. citizen was charged Tuesday with terrorism and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the botched Times Square bombing. The government said he confessed to receiving explosives training in Pakistan.
NEW YORK — The oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has drained $32 billion from BP’s stock market value. Lawsuits, fines, cleanup and reputation-repair are certain to cost the company billions more and could tie up BP for many years to come.
DAKAR (AFP) – Lawmakers from 27 African countries gathered in Dakar on Monday for a two-day conference to push for a UN ban on female genital mutilation as a breach of human rights.
NEW ORLEANS— Cleanup and containment of a massive oil slick resumed Tuesday as winds eased in the Gulf of Mexico and people along beaches and bayous waited to find out just how badly it might damage the delicate coast.
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — The family of Mississippi oil rig worker Aaron Dale Burkeen have filed a wrongful death lawsuit over the April 20 oil rig explosion in which he died.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rescuers feared even more bodies would emerge as muddy flood waters ebb from torrential weekend rains that swamped Nashville, much of Tennessee and two neighboring states, leaving at least 29 dead.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Deputy Clay Grant Jr. was off-duty and picking up a couple of household items from Target when customers started screaming.
NEW ORLEANS — There’s a new mayor in New Orleans. Ray Nagin’s tenure has ended with the swearing in of Mitch Landrieu.
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 35 immigrant advocates, including a nun and a U.S. congressman, were arrested in front of the White House fence Saturday after sitting down and defying orders from police to move.
How in the world can Fox News call themselves a real news channel? They could not even broadcast a real news story like President Obama eulogizing one of the greatest civil rights leaders of the 20th century, Dr. Dorothy Height. This is the problem with Fox News. They want to say they’re a news channel […]