UPDATE: 2/11/2015 11:05 A.M. Police have charged Craig Stephen Hicks  with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of North Carolina University students…
A dry ice bomb exploded at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Sunday evening, causing some flights to be halted and a bomb squad to be called, reports ABC7. The explosion occurred around 7 p.m. in a restroom in Terminal 2 not accessible to passengers, according to LAX police. There were reportedly no injuries. In addition […]
Legendary activist, scholar, author and former political prisoner Angela Davis (pictured left), who is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is still speaking truth to power, specifically as it pertains to revolutionary freedom fighter, Assata Shakur (pictured right). In an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Juan González, Davis said that […]
Laying in his heavily guarded hospital bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, severely injured after suffering a possibly self-inflicted gunshot wound to the neck and still largely unable to talk, Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was officially charged by federal prosecutors with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of […]
When President Barack Obama assured a nation in upheaval that one of the suspected terrorists behind the Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, would be brought to justice, and several media reports vilified Islam and the Chechen people in desperate attempts to disassociate two Caucasian men who had lived in the United States most of […]
It has been confirmed that 8-year-old Martin Richard was one of 3 people killed in the Boston Marathon bombing that is being called a “potential terrorist attack.” Martin had just given his father a hug after he crossed the finish line and was returning to his mother and 6-year-old sister when the explosion took his […]
A 17-year-old Alabama high school student, Derek Shrout, who was arrested last week for allegedly plotting to kill 6 Black students by blowing them up with homemade grenades, has been released on $75,000 bond, reports the Ledger-Enquirer. Shrout, known at Russell County High School as a self-proclaimed, White supremacist, was arrested last week after a […]
If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he’s found Internet stardom now. SEE ALSO: Black Students Face More Arrests Than Whites A video about the atrocities carried out by Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army is rocketing into viral video territory and is racking up millions of page views seemingly by the hour. The […]
WASHINGTON — Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to explain how the U.S. can legally kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil. According to the official, Holder plans to say in a major speech on Monday at Northwestern University […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest, given to him by FBI undercover operatives, said police and government officials. SEE ALSO: MSNBC Drops Pat Buchanan Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria, Va., was taken into custody […]
BEIRUT — The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent branch in the northern town of Idlib was shot dead Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, and activists reported deadly clashes elsewhere between government forces and army defectors. SEE ALSO: Tea Party: Don’t Mention Founding Fathers, Slaves Abdulrazak Jbero was on his […]
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – The lone Marine to face sentencing for the killing of two dozen unarmed Iraqis in one of the Iraq War’s defining moments walked away with no jail time Tuesday after defending his squad’s storming of the homes of Haditha as a necessary act “to keep the […]
