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ISRAEL admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without their families' permission. Huge controversy over an allegation that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their orga
The Chinese government set the trial date for Liu Xiaobo for tomorrow, a dissident who has been in detention for a year for writing Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political reform, human rights and an end to one-party rule.
A growing number of community banks that got federal bailouts are failing to pay quarterly dividends they owe to the government, including 2 banks that got aid after congressional intervention on their behalf, according to data released Monday by the
Archaeologists unveiled a humble dwelling that is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered in Nazareth, then a hamlet of around 50 impoverished Jewish families where Jesus spent his boyhood.
Last week, James Bain was released from a Florida prison after serving 35 years for a crime he didn’t commit. DNA testing finally cleared Bain of raping a young boy in 1974.
Thousands of the faithful are flocking to a suburban Sydney home to pray and receive a blessing of a mysterious oil which oozes from the walls and which a couple claim comes from their 17-yr-old dead son, a “messenger from God” and which has “healing
Pundits of an authoritarian bent, playing to the punitive populist sub-population, refer to a non-existent "war on police"; police officials insist that exceptional episodes of genuinely tragic violence represent the "new normal" for police officers.
In October, Jagels told the Bakersfield Californian that after 26 years in office, he won't be running for reelection in 2010. Good riddance to him. You'd be hard pressed to find a law enforcement official who embodies the worst excesses of America's
Erick Williamson, the Springfield, Virginia man arrested earlier this year for being naked in his own home was convicted of indecent exposure on Friday. The judge sentenced him to 180 days in jail, but suspended the sentence.
The District Attorney commented for the first time since a grand jury refused to charge the drug agents who shot and killed a young minister 3 months ago during a botched drug bust. It is a tragedy all the way around," he said.
But the appeals court reconsidered the case after a decision in June from the United States Supreme Court that prohibited prosecutors from introducing crime lab reports without testimony from the analysts who prepared them. The appeals court rever
More than $3 million in government gold was unwittingly sold off at a fraction of its value as refinery slag, while $8 million more was miscounted and never left the Royal Canadian Mint, the Crown corporation revealed today in a full accounting
[His arrest led to the great "Photography Is Not a Crime." In fact it was cited against him at sentencing.] 9 months after filing my appeal, I received notice I was victorious. The fact I prepared my appeal pro se makes the victory that much sweeter.
After a long and arduous proofreading with 3 different reviews back and forth between Admin and the Congress, HERE IT IS!
An attorney from Johnny Cochran's law firm bit off the nose of a man in Memphis. Will it turn out to be, "If he didn't bit, you must acquit"?!?
Zhu Zhu Pets have nothing on Stretch Armstrong and other toys that were must-have at the time.
Suffer me a little preaching here.... Seems to me.... there was a good REASON our motto was "In God We Trust". It let us BALANCE the tension between what WE, as a people, were morally "responsible" for.... and what HE was responsible fo
The Obama administration took aim Monday at tarmac horror stories, ordering airlines to let passengers stuck in stranded airplanes to disembark after three hours. With its new regulations, the Transportation Department sent an unequivocal message on
Four years ago, Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year old Texas contract employee working in Iraq, was drugged, stripped, beaten and gang-raped by her co-workers on her fourth day in country. She finally managed to get a phone call out from the shipping conta
President Obama plans to deal with a Dec. 31 deadline that automatically would declassify secrets in more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents by ordering government-wide changes that could sharply curb the number of new and old governmen
[OK, SNL writers, here is Sat.'s skit.] The league encourages current and former NFL players to donate their brains to Boston Univ. for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which linked repeated head trauma and brain damage in football players and
Authorities tried to piece together Monday how 14-year-old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker managed to slip out of the Netherlands and fly to the Caribbean, and whether anybody helped her flee. Dekker, who lost a court battle in October for the right t
The Senate early Monday voted 60 to 40 to cut off extended debate on the Democratic-authored health care overhaul bill, the first major step toward passing the measure later this week. The vote, which saw all 58 Democrats and two independents vote to
There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to socialise children by scaring them. The aim of such socialisation-through-fear is twofold: firstly, to get children to conform to the scaremongers’ values; secondly, to use children to influence, or a
Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty. It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will soon visit the northern district of Kurdistan, aiming to sign a deal with Kurdish President Massoud Barzani regarding the future of the Peshmerga, the Kurdish militia. According to the deal, the Baghdad gover
The detention in Thailand of a cargo plane transporting weapons and the arrest of its crew remain shrouded in mystery. The destination of the weapons and identity of their buyers is uncertain. American officials and analysts believe however,
If a ton of manure causes a strong smell, then two tons of manure is not going to produce a lovely scent. Something else is happening.
the Tunguska and Younger Dryas events. In both instances, Melott's group found evidence that the Haber process - whereby a nitrogen fixation reaction produces ammonia - may have occurred on a large scale. "A comet entering the atmosphere makes a b
