Source: Kevin Johnson / USA Today WASHINGTON — An internal Justice Department report found that new identities created for known or suspected terrorists admitted to the government secret Witness Security Program were not submitted for inclusion on terrorist watchlists. Until the matter was recently brought to the attention of senior Justice officials by the department’s [...]
Source: Suzan Clarke / ABC News Commuters in a West Philadelphia train station leaped into action today after a woman’s baby stroller containing her 14-month-old daughter fell onto the train tracks and the mother climbed down to rescue the child. The incident, captured on surveillance video, occurred at 12:46 p.m. at the 56 th Street [...]
Source: Gary Strauss, Doyle Rice and Doug Stanglin / USA Today Several tornadoes ripped through an area of north-central Texas on Wednesday night, leaving at least six people dead, scores injured and driving hundreds from homes flattened by the turbulent winds. Hardest hit was the Rancho Brazos subdivision of 110 homes near Granbury, southwest of [...]
Source: Mary Clare Jalonick / AP / ABC News The House Agriculture Committee is set to consider small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive. The cuts are part of a massive five-year farm bill that costs almost $100 billion [...]
Source: AP / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for “abusive sexual contact” and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday. Just last week an Air Force officer who headed a sexual assault prevention [...]
Source: David Shepardson / The Detroit News Washington — The National Transportation Safety Board wants states to lower the legal limit on drunken driving from the current .08 to .05 or lower — a move that could save hundreds of lives annually, but could cause a big change in Americans behavior. The board voted 5-0 [...]
Source: AP / USA Today WASHINGTON — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls [...]
Source: Robert Snell / The Detroit News Detroit — Kwame Kilpatrick asked a federal judge Monday to overturn his corruption conviction and order a new trial. In a twist, Kilpatrick filed the request by himself and revealed that he has filed a complaint with the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission against his taxpayer-funded lawyer, James C. [...]
Source: AP / USA Today MEXICO CITY – Mexico City prosecutors say they have arrested two men in connection with the death of Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of political activist Malcolm X. An official of the city’s prosecutor’s office who was not authorized to be quoted by name says the two suspects are employees of [...]
Source: Rob Savillo and Oliver Willis / Media Matters Media Matters recorded all guests who appeared during evening cable news programming on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC for the month of April 2013. Media Matters reviewed raw video of all news shows airing between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., Monday through Friday. While CNN’s The [...]
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