The Daily Mail - Sun Aug 29, 2010
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 are seared on our collective consciousness. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Aug 17, 2010
WASHINGTON - The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh. More...
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WSB-TV - Fri Jul 30, 2010
ATLANTA - An Atlanta woman who served two years of prison time after her faulty tires caused a fatal wreck was released from prison Friday. More...
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WESH-TV - Wed Jul 7, 2010
COCOA BEACH, Florida - Tests are out on more than a dozen tar balls that have been found in a 2- to 3-mile stretch of Cocoa Beach during the past two days, according to Brevard County authorities. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Jul 6, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans, which managed to escape the oil from the BP spill for more than two months, can't hide any longer. More...
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Associated Press - Sat Jul 3, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico. More...
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Associated Press - Sun Jun 6, 2010
MIAMI - More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows. More...
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Wonkette - Sat Jun 5, 2010
Hard to find even the Gallows Humor in this story, so maybe we won't even try. More...
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Associated Press - Fri Jun 4, 2010
For days, CNN's small army of reporters, photographers and producers has been repositioning toward Florida as oil was expected to come ashore in the Sunshine State. More...
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Associated Press - Fri Jun 4, 2010
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Scientists with the University of South Florida say laboratory tests have confirmed that oil from a spewing Gulf of Mexico well has accumulated in at least two extensive plumes deep underwater. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Jun 1, 2010
NEW YORK - Lawyers for thousands of ground zero workers suing over their exposure to dust from the destroyed World Trade Center have offered to lower their legal fees in an attempt to salvage a major settlement in the case. More...
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CNN - Tue May 25, 2010
Washington - Federal inspectors overseeing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico accepted meals and tickets to sporting events from companies they monitored, the Interior Department's inspector general concluded in a report released Wednesday. More...
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Associated Press - Wed Apr 21, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing. More...
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Associated Press - Thu Apr 15, 2010
WASHINGTON - White House counsel Harriet Miers was "livid" and CIA counsel John Rizzo was "clearly upset" that the spy agency destroyed interrogation videos showing waterboarding in 2005, newly released CIA documents show. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Apr 13, 2010
OKLAHOMA CITY - Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty. More...
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Associated Press - Sat Mar 27, 2010
SAN JACINTO, California - At the edge of arid foothills far outside Los Angeles, hundreds of Scientology followers live on a gated, 500-acre campus and work long hours for almost no pay reproducing the works of founder L Ron Hubbard and creating the church's teaching and promotional materials. More...
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AFP - Wed Feb 10, 2010
WASHINGTON - Federal agents handcuffed, detained and "abusively" interrogated a US student at Philadelphia International Airport because he was carrying Arabic flashcards, a lawsuit claimed Wednesday. More...
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Associated Press - Mon Feb 8, 2010
NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of "tea party" activists that America is ripe for another revolution. More...
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Daily Mail, UK - Sun Feb 7, 2010
A US soldier has been accused of 'waterboarding' his four-year-old daughter because she couldn't recite the alphabet. More...
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CNN - Sat Jan 9, 2010
Federal authorities filed a criminal complaint Friday against a 56-year-old man whose scrawled note invoking "Gilligan's Island" led a Hawaiian Airlines pilot to turn around a Maui-bound flight and return Wednesday to Portland, Oregon. More...
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Associated Press - Fri Dec 25, 2009
Hundreds of tons of salt excavated from the Department of Energy's underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico are destined for cattle feed in Texas. More...
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Associated Press - Mon Dec 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - Stinky toilets, crying babies, airless cabins - the Obama administration said Monday passengers don't have to take it any more. More...
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Associated Press - Sun Dec 20, 2009
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia - It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack. More...
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Associated Press - Sun Sep 27, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY - The FBI has released long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. More...
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Associated Press - Mon Sep 21, 2009
ATLANTA - A two-year-old Georgia boy swept from his father's arms Monday was among six people killed by storms pounding the Southeast, and more rain was expected after the historic dumping that also forced drivers to scramble onto the roofs of cars on Atlanta's main artery. More...
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WLBT-TV - Sat Aug 29, 2009
JACKSON, MS - A man who made internet threats in January to assassinate then President-Elect Barack Obama pleaded guilty Friday before US District Judge Henry Wingate. More...
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Associated Press - Wed Aug 26, 2009
BOSTON – Senator Edward M:dot: Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. More...
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Associated Press - Mon Aug 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration launched a criminal investigation Monday into harsh questioning of detainees during President George W Bush's war on terrorism, revealing CIA interrogators' threats to kill one suspect's children and to force another to watch his mother sexually assaulted. More...
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CNN - Sun Aug 23, 2009
NEW YORK - Michele Minton was crying as she listened to a man tell her she'd be arrested within the hour if she didn't pay a $4,400 debt. More...
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Associated Press - Thu Aug 20, 2009
WASHINGTON - The CIA hired private contractors at Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, a person familiar with the program said Wednesday. More...
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Associated Press - Thu Aug 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - A 95-year-old Crow Indian who went into battle wearing war paint under his World War II uniform has been awarded the nation's highest civilian honor. More...
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Associated Press - Tue Aug 11, 2009
WASHINGTON - Former White House political adviser Karl Rove played a central role in the ouster of a US attorney in New Mexico, one of nine prosecutors fired in a scandal in 2006 over political interference with the Justice Department, according to transcripts of closed-door testimony released Tuesday. More...
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WDSU-TV - Sun Aug 9, 2009
NEW ORLEANS - A federal investigation is being conducted into the New Orleans Police Department to determine if New Orleans police violated the civil rights of people killed and injured in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. More...
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WAPT-TV - Tue Jul 28, 2009
JACKSON, Mississippi - A man who is accused of posting online threats to assassinate President Barack Obama says he's competent to stand trial. More...
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Associated Press - Thu Jul 16, 2009
TOLEDO, Ohio - A package delivered to the Toledo Police Department downtown early Thursday afternoon exploded on the fourth floor. More...
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Associated Press - Mon Jun 22, 2009
CLEARWATER, Florida - A former high-ranking Scientology official who handled the case of a mentally ill member who died under church care ordered the destruction of incriminating evidence to cover up missteps, a newspaper reported Monday. More...
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Associated Press - Fri Jun 12, 2009
On the Sunday before Memorial Day, David made the big time: Winning $10,000 in an online poker tournament made him eligible for the upcoming World Series of Poker, the game's premier event, where hundreds of players - amateur and professional - descend on Las Vegas from around the world to play for a multimillion-dollar pot. More...
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CNN - Thu Jun 11, 2009
Hate groups have intensified their rhetoric in recent months, but this new energy hasn't necessarily translated to an increase in the rate of hate crimes in the US, according to some researchers. More...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Wed Jun 3, 2009
A Delta passenger charged with assault over a bathroom emergency got relief in court this week in an agreement reached with federal prosecutors. More...
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CNN - Tue Jun 2, 2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks. More...
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