Two Kazakh students charged with obstruction in Boston bomb probe
A U.S. grand jury on Thursday indicted two students from Kazakhstan on obstruction of justice charges, alleging they helped hide evidence, related to the April Boston marathon bombing that killed three and injured 264.Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19, were college friends of surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.They...Marine demoted for urinating on Taliban corpses
A U.S. Marine sergeant who was videotaped urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has been demoted to the rank of corporal after pleading guilty, the Marine Corps has said.Sergeant Robert Richards was the last of eight Marines to be punished in connection with the incident, which took place on July 27, 2011, during a...CIA deputy director: Al-Qaeda replacing Assad is the biggest threat to U.S.
Washington — The second-in-command of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) says that the toppling of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria is the largest threat to United States national security and may help Al-Qaeda acquire chemical weapons.Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell said the prospect of the...Iran nominee seen as olive branch to United States
If Iran's president-elect wanted to signal his determination to rebuild relations with the United States and strike a "grand bargain," he could hardly do better than pick Mohammad Javad Zarif as his foreign minister.Iranian news agencies reported on Monday that Zarif, a former ambassador to the United Nations and Tehran's leading...Political developments activate the Mideast peace process
The Palestinians have been urging for peace talks for years. Surprisingly, a new round of negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis starts this week in Washington, DC. What has brought Israel’s hard line Prime Minister Netanyahu to the peace table?Possibly four recent political developments have softened the current Israeli...Swift Aviation settles EEOC discrimination lawsuit
PHOENIX — Swift Aviation Services, Inc., a Phoenix aeronautical services company, will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief, in order to settle a lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The agency announced the decision this week.The EEOC claimed in its suit that Swift Aviation violated federal...Arrests made across metro-Detroit in nationwide prostitution sting
DETROIT — Arrests were recently made by federal agencies in cities across the country, including Detroit, as part of a nationwide prostitution sting. The FBI, along with other federal agencies, rescued over 100 children and teenagers, during an undercover operation that involved 76 cities across the country. In...
Netanyahu, Abbas to resume ‘Peace Process’ that never was
July 26th, 20130 The political peddlers, think-tank experts and media professionals are all back in full force. They want us to believe that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has done what others have failed to do. On his sixth trip to the Middle East during his post, and following intense shuttle diplomacy, likened to that of Henry Kissinger, Kerry...TSA will grope you less for $85
If full-body scanners and TSA pat-downs make you feel uncomfortable, you now have an alternate option – for the hefty price of $85.The Transportation Security Administration has launched a new program that will allow members to bypass regular airport security checkpoints. Those enrolled in the “trusted traveler” program, called TSA...Power woos critics with Pro-Israel charm offensive
WASHINGTON — Samantha Power, U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee for the post of ambassador to the United Nations, made a strong case for her confirmation Wednesday with strong pro-Israel and interventionist statements that will appeal to many of the hawks in the U.S. Senate.Speaking at her confirmation hearing before the Senate...Civil rights organizations denounce verdict in Trayvon Martin case
The Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus issued a statement this week noting that it is deeply saddened, outraged and disappointed by the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, who the group says stalked, shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American boy last year.On Saturday, July 13, 2013, a...Saudi princess charged with human trafficking in California
Prosecutors in Southern California charged a Saudi Arabian princess on Wednesday, July 10, with human trafficking and accused her of bringing a Kenyan woman to the United States and holding her against her will as a servant.The accused woman, Meshael Alayban, 42, brought the Kenyan to the United States in May and paid her $220 a month...A message to Washington: There’s no room for failure
In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, many legislators are positioning themselves to, not only resist, but also undermine immigration reform. Speaker John Boehner has said that he will not bring a bill to the floor unless a majority of Republicans support it.Immigration reform has been on hold for more than a decade,...House Republicans divided on immigration reform
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives emerged from an immigration meeting on Wednesday, July 10, divided over whether to help the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States, but eager to bolster border security.Several lawmakers said there appeared to be no consensus over calls for granting legal status to the...Majority of Americans believe Snowden did the right thing
Fifty-five percent of registered American voters consider former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to be a whistleblower, and only 34 percent call him a traitor - despite U.S. lawmakers labeling him as such.A poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that the majority of Americans perceive Snowden as a man who exposed the inappropriate......
U.S. walks tightrope in wake of Egypt coup
WASHINGTON — July 3's coup d’etat against the elected government of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has placed the administration of President Barack Obama in an uncomfortable position on a number of fronts.Most immediately, it will be pressed to decide whether Morsi’s ouster constituted the kind of military coup that requires a...U.S. mulls sending military training teams to Lebanon and Iraq
WASHINGTON - U.S. military commanders are examining ways the U.S. could bolster security in Syria’s neighboring countries, and have recommended sending military trainers to Lebanon and Iraq.Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on Wednesday revealed U.S. plans to strengthen military assistance in Lebanon and Iraq as......
Senate passes sweeping immigration legislation
June 28th, 20130 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate approved a landmark immigration bill on Thursday that would provide millions of undocumented immigrants a chance to become citizens but the leader of the House of Representatives said the measure was dead on arrival in the House.In a rare show of bi-partisanship, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed the...
Idaho company creates pork-laced bullets to target Muslims
June 28th, 20130 IDAHO - South Fork Industries, a gun company in the State of Idaho, is selling "Jihawg Ammunition," a pork-laced bullet that serves as a "deterrent to the ever-growing threat of radical Islam and Sharia Law."According to the South Fork Industries' website, the idea of these bullets came as a response to the construction of an Islamic...Supreme Court strikes down key voting rights provision
ATLANTA -- The Supreme Court struck down a key provision, Section 4, of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 in a five to four ruling this week, halting enforcement of Section 5 of the act.One of the key achievements of the Civil Rights Movement, the act was intended to address historical, entrenched racial discrimination in voting...WHO: Violence against women causes “global health epidemic”
NEW YORK - More than a third of all women worldwide are victims of physical or sexual violence, posing a global health problem of epidemic proportions, according to a recent World Health Organization report. The vast majority of women are attacked or abused by their husbands or boyfriends, and common health problems they suffer......
Poll: Americans oppose Obama on arming rebels
WASHINGTON - According to a new poll from the Pew Center, 70 percent of Americans oppose the Obama administration’s recently-revealed plans to send light weaponry to the Syrian rebels.The poll, conducted in roughly equal parts before and after the U.S. government revealed that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against the...Toward a U.S.-Iranian detente
Last Friday’s presidential and local council elections in Iran show that the Islamic Republic is far more stable and politically dynamic than Western conventional wisdom commonly acknowledges.Moreover, the election of Hassan Rohani — who headed the Islamic Republic’s Supreme National Security Council for 16 years and was Tehran’s......
Obama’s Syria policy looks a lot like Bush’s Iraq policy’
Did the White House’s remarks about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons sound familiar? Former congressman Ron Paul says the build up to a likely strike on Syria reminds him of the days before the invasion of Iraq.Paul, the longtime Republican lawmaker from Texas, who retired last year following an unsuccessful...
Rights groups file lawsuit to challenge NYPD’s Muslim surveillance program
June 21st, 20130 NEW YORK – Civil rights groups across the country say the NYPD is routinely violating the civil rights of Muslims across New York City by operating an unconstitutional religious profiling surveillance program, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by New York City residents represented by the New York Civil Liberties Union, the......
