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N.H. police chief faces fine after teen kills self with his service weapon
A New Hampshire police chief could have to pay up to $1,000 in fines after a 15-year-old boy killed himself with the officer’s service weapon. Danville Police Chief Wade Parsons was expected to be...
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Obama’s weekly address given by Newtown victim’s mother Francine Wheeler:...
President Barack Obama handed over his weekly radio address to the grieving mother of a Newtown massacre victim on Saturday as debate raged over proposed gun control legislation. In a rare move which...
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Passengers scream in terror as plane misses Bali runway and lands in sea
An Indonesian plane carrying more than 100 passengers broke in two after missing the runway at Bali airport Saturday and landing in the sea, leaving dozens injured but no fatalities. The Boeing 737-800...
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London braces for massive party to ‘celebrate’ Thatcher’s death
Police were braced on Saturday for a mass “party” staged by opponents of Margaret Thatcher in London’s Trafalgar Square to celebrate her death. Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the authorities were...
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Mubarak retrial collapses in chaos
The judge in the retrial of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak recused himself on Saturday, in a chaotic opening hearing that lasted just seconds and saw a proud and combative Mubarak smile and wave in the dock....
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Russia’s retaliatory ban on 18 U.S. officials includes Cheney chief David...
Russia on Saturday published its own blacklist of US officials banned from entering the country in retaliation for Washington blocking 18 Russians over alleged human rights abuses. “The war of lists is...
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The bubble bursts on e-currency Bitcoin
Many saw it coming, but that didn’t stop the Bitcoin bubble from bursting: after rising to dizzying heights, the digital currency suffered its first true crash this week. The price of the virtual...
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For hundreds of years, Japan’s cherry blossoms have symbolized life and death
Cherry blossom trees in bloom in Washington, D.C., shot and edited by Cindy Huang. After a chilly start to spring on the East Coast, cherry trees are in full bloom in Washington, D.C. But the trees’...
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Spies for Peace: Meet the 1960s activists who spilled nuclear secrets
My parents were Spies for Peace. Today’s protesters have far stricter surveillance to overcome but civil disobedience lives on Fifty years ago Britain had just emerged from the coldest winter of the...
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Maher: U.S. needs to give up war addiction and define ‘peace as strength’
On this week’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher told Americans who are so eager to go to war with North Korea that the U.S. has been addicted to war for too long and needs to...
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Florida man arrested for flashing penis at cable company worker
Sheriff’s deputies in Lee County, Floria arrested a Ft. Myers man for exposing his genitals to a female cable company worker. According to Ft. Myers’ ABC Channel 7, 61-year-old Allen Jones was taken...
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Australian Cardinal says church needs ‘better discipline’
Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric Cardinal George Pell, picked by the pope to help advise him on governance and reforms, said Sunday “better discipline” was needed in the church. The Sydney...
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Swiss president sees no need to change banking secrecy
Swiss President Ueli Maurer said on Sunday he saw “no need to change strategy” after fellow financial centre Luxembourg eased its bank secrecy practices. Now is a “dangerous time for Switzerland (but)...
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Rwanda seeks to block talk of war crimes court at UN
The United Nations has been hit by a second war crimes court dispute in a week with Rwanda trying to stop the UN Security Council praising the International Criminal Court. The storm comes only days...
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Florida police sergeant fired over use of ‘Trayvon Martin’ shooting target
A Florida police sergeant was fired for offering Trayvon Martin shooting targets to his colleagues, authorities said Saturday. Sgt. Ron King of Port Canaveral Police Department was fired Friday after...
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Cornyn opposes ‘symbolic’ background checks so Newtown victims ‘did not die...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R) on Sunday said that he opposed a bill to close the so-called gun show loophole and expand background checks to Internet gun sales because only better mental health laws will...
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Saturday Night Live mocks congressional cowardice on gun laws
Saturday Night Live this weekend mocked the unwillingness of federal lawmakers to seriously address gun laws following the tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The skit began with...
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George Will: ‘Conservatism begins with facing facts’
Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday told Republicans that they should get behind immigration reform because “conservatism begins with facing facts.” During a panel segment on ABC’s This Week,...
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California Senate president attacks ‘diseased’ financial system in education...
California Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) blasted the financial industry in a speech calling for educational reform. At the California Democrats State Convention in...
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Sen. Marco Rubio: ‘I think Jay-Z needs to get informed’ about Cuba
US Senator Marco Rubio on Sunday railed against the recent trip to Cuba by pop diva Beyonce and hip-hop star Jay-Z, calling for stricter rules against travel to the communist-run island. “I won’t rap...
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