Brian Logan, The Guardian It was the midnight train to Georgia. I was 20 years old, a student travelling after a working holiday. Now I was leaving New Orleans, on board the sleeper bound for Savannah. This was the Sunset Limited, “the only true transcontinental passenger train in American...
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‘I survived the deadliest train crash in Amtrak’s history’
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Two deaths reported as tornadoes wreak havoc across Midwest
Dominic Rushe, theguardian.com Ferocious weather pounded the midwest on Sunday with tornadoes, intense thunderstorms and giant hail threatening 53 million people across 10 states and leaving tens of thousands without power. A county coroner said two people were killed when a tornado hit their home...
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Teacher awarded $362,653 in defamation suit against former students for calling him a ‘perv’
False accusations of misconduct fuel the nightmares of grade school teachers, given the litigiousness and bureaucracy of the schoolhouse. But one former Catholic school teacher in California has achieved what his attorney called “complete vindication” against a cabal of Mean Girls-style...
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Google targets 100,000 search terms linked with online child sexual abuse
Juliette Garside, The Guardian Google is targeting 100,000 terms associated with online child sexual abuse in a move hailed by David Cameron, who will announce a series of measures to tackle the problem at a cyber-summit in Downing Street. The prime minister said that Google and Yahoo had...
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French hostage in Nigeria escapes while abductors pray
French hostage Francis Collomp, 63, escaped his captors in Nigeria, the office of President François Hollande said in a statement on Sunday. Collomp had been held since being abducted by the Ansaru Islamist group on December 19, 2012. FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Nigeria, Aminu Abubacar, reported...
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Violent tornadoes kill 6 and injure dozens in the midwest
Residents in several US midwestern cities sifted through piles of rubble Monday as they recovered from violent tornadoes that ripped through the region, killing at least six and injuring scores. Flights were grounded Sunday and tens of thousands of homes lost power as intense winds overturned cars,...
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27-year-old man in critical condition after shooting at French left-wing newspaper
A 27-year-old man was left fighting for his life Monday after being shot by an intruder at the Paris offices of left-wing French daily Liberation. The victim, a photographer’s assistant, was shot in the chest and stomach with a pump-action shotgun and was in a critical condition, police and...
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Bill Clinton says the next American president should be a woman
Former US president Bill Clinton hopes there will be a woman in the White House in his lifetime and will support his wife Hillary in whatever she decides to do, he told a Chinese audience on Monday. Hillary, who earlier this year stepped down as US secretary of state, has not yet said whether she...
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Germany’s top political parties agree to binding boardroom quota to fix gender imbalance in business
Germany’s top parties, in talks on forming a government, agreed on Monday to a binding boardroom quota for women intended to fix a big gender imbalance in business. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their likely coalition partners, the Social...
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Police say teen used social media to intimidate witnesses to Philadelphia crimes
Police have arrested a 17-year-old accused of maintaining a social media account intended to intimidate witnesses to violent crimes in Philadelphia. Officers said the teen named witnesses to four shootings, including a 2007 homicide, and posted secret court documents. The caption beneath one photo...
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Archaeologists discover five 4,000 year-old heads of royal statues from the pharaonic era
A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have found five heads of royal statues from the pharaonic era, officials from the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. “The heads, which had crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt and were made from limestone, were discovered” south of Luxor,...
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Cops in some Ohio communities could ticket drivers less sober than themselves
Law enforcement officers in some Ohio communities are allowed to show up for work after drinking alcohol, arm themselves and drive around in their patrol cars, according to a newspaper analysis. The (Middletown) Journal-News reported Sunday that some union contracts protect police officers,...
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Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Obamacare is hurting ‘many’ elderly pregnant women
Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck suggested on Monday that pregnant women 65-years-old and older were losing their doctors because of President Barack Obama health care reform law. In a segment titled “Who’s Ruining the Economy Now?” Fox Business host Stuart Varney announced that...
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Russia’s Olympic drug-testing lab suspended by global anti-doping agency over quality
The global anti-doping agency has provisionally suspended the accreditation of Moscow’s laboratory of the right to test athletes just months before the Sochi Winter Olympics. WADA had opened disciplinary proceedings against the lab in the Russian capital because of questions over the quality...
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Israel has been ‘holding suspected Al-Qaeda activist since 2010′ without trial
Israel has been secretly holding a suspected Al-Qaeda activist without trial for more than three years, legal documents showed on Monday after the suspect petitioned a court for his release. According to court documents seen by AFP, the Israeli security establishment told the high court ahead of a...
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Russia will keep Greenpeace activist in pre-trial jail until February 24, 2014
A court in Russia’s second city of Saint Petersburg extended the pre-trial detention of one of the 30 Greenpeace activists arrested for an Arctic protest for three months until February 24. Colin Russell, an Australian citizen, was the first of the 30 detained activists to have his case heard...
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Muslim woman alleges co-workers at New York City’s The New School used racist slurs towards her, files lawsuit
A Clifton Muslim woman filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging her co-workers at The New School in Manhattan routinely used racist slurs towards her forcing her to quit her job. Jamilah Moudiab, who quit her job as an international…
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NASA Mars spacecraft to search for clues about why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere
NASA is preparing to launch its latest orbiter to Mars Monday on the hunt for clues about why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere. The launch of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN), could happen as early as 1:28 pm (1828 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, during a two-hour launch...
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German prosecutor seeks murder charges against Minnesota man who led Nazi unit
A German prosecutor is recommending murder charges against a Minnesota carpenter for his role in the 1944 massacre of dozens of women and children during a Nazi-led attack on a Polish village. Thomas Will, deputy head of the special prosecutors’ office that investigates Nazi crimes, said...
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‘The Walking Dead’: ‘Live Bait’ through the eyes of a child
Welcome to the fourth of what I’m now officially calling “Raw Story’s don’t-call-it-a-recap of popular television shows.” Recaps you can find anywhere, but only here will you be able to find the proprietor of the AV Club’s Internet Film School breaking down your favorite television shows on a...
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