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US State Department Says Indonesia Failing to Protect Religious Minorities
Indonesian youths gather outside the church that was attacked by Muslim hardliners in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011. Hundreds of Islamic hard-liners stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire Tuesday in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian convicted of blaspheming ...
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Ron Hasse named publisher president of Los Angeles News Group
Ron Hasse, president and publisher of the Los Angeles News Group. (null) Ronald C. Hasse has been named publisher and president of the Los Angeles News Group, company officials announced ...
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Family of abolitionist Frederick Douglass continues his legacy
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - In commemoration of Juneteenth, the day in 1865 that the last of the slaves were declared free, a statue was unveiled at the Capitol's Emancipation Hall of the Fredrick Douglass. The great African-American speaker and writer escaped slavery as a young man and devoted his life to ending it, becoming an adviser to the man who did: Abraham Lincoln. No doubt the sight of ...
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Video Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington descendent fights modern-day slavery
Being the descendent of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington could be intimidating for some, but Ken Morris' background inspired him to fight modern-day slavery. Jim Axelrod ...
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Feds we can’t give up cellular location data because NSA doesn’t collect it
new 21-page legal filing (PDF) for a separate Florida-based federal criminal case,the government seemed to indicatethat its routine collection of metadata by the National Security Agency does not include cell-site location information (CSLI). The dragnet of collected metadata referenced by the government was described in a recently-leaked FISC ...
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Turkish parade in New York is a show of power Turkish Minister
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said Turkish parade was a cultural show of power NEW YORK - Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said, " Turkish Day Parade is a signal of Turkey's power, a cultural show of power." Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) organized the 32thTurkish Day Parade in New York.Addressing the crowd after the parade, ...
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Wildfire continues to threaten parts of Western United States
An Arizona wildfire whipped up by strong winds threatened hundreds of homes on Wednesday, even as firefighters were gaining an edge on a California blaze raging near a pristine wilderness, authorities said.More than 500 firefighters were battling the Doce Fire, which has burned through 2,830 hectares of chaparral, pine and juniper since Tuesday morning near Prescott, about 160 km north of ...
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Miami-Dade County street-light supervisor charged with taking bribes
A Miami-Dade County public works supervisor who oversaw the installation of more than 45,000 street lights is behind bars, after being accused of accepting thousands of dollars’ worth of household merchandise as bribes from a lighting-product vendor, authorities said Wednesday.George Brown, 50, of Hollywood, had his first appearance in Fort Lauderdale federal court Wednesday on charges of ...
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Celebrated University of Miami architecture dean champion of traditional design to step down
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the prominent planner and architect under whose leadership the University of Miami’s fledgling architecture school gained a national reputation as an iconoclastically un-voguish center for traditional design and community engagement, is stepping down as dean after an unusually long tenure of 18 years.UM President Donna Shalala, in a statement Wednesday, called ...
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Miami turns to Jorge Perez Stephen Ross to carry out long-stalled Watson Island redevelopment
Can superstar developers Jorge Perez and Stephen Ross reignite long-stalled plans to build a luxury hotel complex, shopping center and mega marina on Watson Island?The Miami City Commission is willing to bet on it.Last week, the commission voted to give the project’s original developer, Flagstone Island Gardens, a lease extension that grants additional time to start construction. The move ...
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Judge sides with US in Manning document dispute
A government lawyer said Monday the U.S. Army has released the vast majority of court records in Pfc. Bradley Manning's case and told a civilian judge the dispute over the records had become ...
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NC repeals law that allowed racial bias appeals
Sequestration, the symbolic and ridiculous budget cutting bill that was allowed to become law, has been lampooned by almost every responsible political analyst in the country. It appears the overriding reason that it was allowed to become law is that the Republicans in the House needed to do something to assure their constituents that spending was going to be cut after agreeing to accept the end ...
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NY Kodak will keep some operations in Rochester
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- New York state and Eastman Kodak Co. have reached a deal that will keep some of the troubled company's operations in Rochester and provide $49 million for environmental cleanup at the once bustling Eastman Business Park.Local media outlets report Wednesday that Kodak will keep advanced manufacturing and its research center at the 1,200-acre site and lease property there ...
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How Olympic cauldron fanned flames of fury at American design studio
Thomas Heatherwick's Olympic cauldron (left) and the concept the New York design studio Atopia submitted to Locog in 2007. Photograph: Getty ...
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New York Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists
ALBANY, NY-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of York announced that Glendon Scott Crawford, age 49, of Galway, New York; and Eric J. Feight, age 54, of Hudson, New York, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The arrests followed a lengthy investigation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that began in April ...
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FBI director Robert Mueller admits spy drones being used on American soil
United States The long-standing director of the FBI has admitted the agency is using drones for surveillance on American soil.FBI director Robert Mueller, who took over as the director of the FBI just a week before the September 11 attacks, made the acknowledgment in response to questions from US senators asking about the government's increasing use of unmanned aircraft.During a Senate ...
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Mad Max with an American accent Not so fast
video game version is on the way, but some fans are outraged to see an American voice actor cast in the leading role. The upcoming third-person open-world game by Avalanche Studios, due out sometime next year for PCs, ...
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Arizona killer who asked for speedy execution found dead in cell
Dale Hausner, one of two men arrested for a string of fatal shootings, sits in court during his initial appearance at the Maricopa County court in jail in Phoenix, Arizona August 4, ...
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Hollywood man used bribes from government job to furnish home feds say
Miami -Dade County government job to obtain more than $13,000 worth of bribes – including a new stove, refrigerator and air conditioning system for his home, federal authorities said Wednesday.George Brown, 50, was arrested Tuesday and is being held at ...
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Stop force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners Senator
A selection of lunch meals offered to detainees are displayed in a food preparation area at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 7, ...
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Video Federal Reserve raises its predictions for growth and jobs
Ben Bernanke said the economy is doing well enough that the Federal Reserve is likely to ease back on a bond-buying program that has kept interest rates at record-low rates. The prospect of higher interest rates sent the Dow down more than 200 points. Anthony Mason ...
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Video Clean-up solution at Hanford Nuclear Plant is billions over budget
The clean-up at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington costs U.S. taxpayers $2 billion every year. The $13 billion plant that is supposed to monitor the cleaning has been plagued with technical challenges since the project began in 2000. Carter Evans ...
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Video American Medical Association declares obesity a disease
The American Medical Association declared obesity a disease, leaving many doctors hoping that this changes the way insurance companies view covering treatment. Weight loss surgery is covered by Medicare and insurance companies when there are complications such as diabetes and high blood pressure, but patients who have not yet developed these problems are denied coverage. Dr. Jon LaPook ...
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Video August 23 2000 NTSB releases findings of TWA Flight 800 probe
The clean-up at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington costs U.S. taxpayers $2 billion every year. The $13 billion plant that is supposed to monitor the cleaning has been plagued with technical challenges since the project began in 2000. Carter Evans ...
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Video FBI director confirms minimal use of drones for surveillance
The FBI's use of drones was a secret until Wednesday, when the agency's director, Robert Mueller, answered a question from Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley during testimony on Capitol Hill. Mueller said the FBI does use drones for minimal surveillance and to get "eyes-on" details at crime scenes. Bob Orr ...
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