Court releases memo of U.S. justification of drone attacks on Muslim citizen
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Monday released a redacted version of the U.S. Justice Department's memorandum of justification for a 2011 drone attack that killed Anwar al Awlaki, an American-born Islamist preacher suspected of having ties to al Qaeda.The memo said that because the U.S. government considered al Awlaki to be an...ACLU: U.S. police forces have ‘dangerously’ militarized
WASHINGTON — Police SWAT teams are forcing their way into homes, often using explosive devices, simply to serve drug possession search warrants in tactics that a leading civil rights groups said on Tuesday treated civilians as wartime enemies.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said federal government programs that armed police...Harry Reid on Iraq vote: “I’m sorry that I was misled… It was a mistake”
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday, June 18, that he deeply regretted his vote to go to war with Iraq in 2003."Do you know how I feel about that?" Reid asked during a sit-down interview in his office with The Huffington Post. "I'm sure this is no big surprise," he said, pausing for ten seconds before...Bus ads show Christian, Jew, Muslim agreeing on Qur’an verse
WASHINGTON — An Islamic advocacy group is circulating 20 advertisements on Washington, D.C., buses that show a Christian, Muslim and Jew agreeing on a verse from the Qur’an.The advertisements were recently plastered on 20 metro buses by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national advocacy organization for Muslim civil...U.S. captures suspected ringleader of 2012 attack in Benghazi
WASHINGTON — The United States said on Tuesday it had captured a suspected ringleader of the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, and ignited a political firestorm in Washington.President Obama said in a statement he had authorized the operation in...Chicago bomb plot defendant denied secret files by appeals court
Daoud.CHICAGO — A federal appeals court has overruled a landmark lower court decision that allowed lawyers for a man accused of plotting to bomb a Chicago bar to see documents classified under a major U.S. spying law.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on Monday means prosecutors need not disclose to lawyers for the...
Maliki asks for U.S. intervention, Obama to send 300 military advisers
June 19th, 20140 BAGHDAD — President Obama said Thursday, June 19, he is planning to send up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help retrain Iraqi security forces as they battle an insurgent invasion."Armed forces will not be returning to combat in Iraq," Obama said in a White House announcement.After a meeting with national security advisers, Obama...FAA to investigate air traffic controller’s joke that delayed airplane landing
ATLANTA —The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an air traffic controller's joking remark that caused a Delta jet to abort a landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.Flight 630 from Detroit was approaching a runway last Wednesday when a controller told the pilot: “630, go around,” instructing the...Sixty two percent of Americans back allowing illegal immigrants become citizens
WASHINGTON — Sixty-two percent of Americans support providing a way for immigrants living in the United States illegally to become citizens if they meet requirements, while almost a fifth support deportation, a poll showed on Tuesday.With the Obama administration hoping that immigration reform could be passed this year, 17 percent of...Private U.S. prisons for immigrants rife with abuses
AUSTIN — Private prisons holding more than 25,000 people who violated U.S. immigration laws are cutting corners to generate profits and subjecting inmates to systematic abuse, a report released on Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union said.The Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) prisons, five of which are located in...16 Cedar Point employees arrested for disorderly conduct
SANDUSKY, OH — Sixteen workers at Cedar Point were arrested after a late night fight at an employee recreation center over the weekend while the park was shut down due to a water main break, police said on Tuesday.All 16 of the workers at the amusement park were charged with felony aggravated rioting, 15 were charged with...Reports of sex crimes up at colleges and universities
NEW YORK — Reports of forcible sex crimes at colleges and universities increased by over 50 percent to 2011 from 2001, even as on-campus crime has declined for every other category, according to a federal report released on Tuesday.The Education Department report found that 3,300 sex crimes, including rape and forced...Hundreds more migrant children shipped to Arizona from Texas
PHOENIX — Hundreds of children who crossed the U.S. border illegally were transported to Arizona from Texas over the weekend as border agents face a surge of unauthorized Central American migrants entering the country, authorities said on Monday.Nearly 1,000 unaccompanied minors have been sent in the last week from overflowing...Lawsuit accuses Chicago Firefighters of hate crime against Muslim man
CHICAGO — An African-American Muslim man says white suburban firefighters deliberately soaked him with the hose on their fire truck — simply because of his faith and race.Omar Ali, 30, alleged in a federal lawsuit filed last week that three Tinley Park firefighters who saw him wearing a turban as he walked home past their fire...State Department says U.S. citizen was suicide bomber in Syria
WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department this week confirmed that an American citizen had carried out a suicide bombing in Syria. "The American citizen involved in the suicide bombing in Syria is believed to be Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.The New York Times, which first......
New York resident accused of plotting to kill U.S. soldiers
June 6th, 20140 Mufid Elfgeeh.BROCKPORT N.Y — The owner of a western New York food market faced accusations in court on Monday that he illegally bought guns to shoot and kill members of the U.S. military returning from Iraq, according to official documents.Mufid Elfgeeh, 30, of Rochester, was arrested by federal agents on Saturday on illegal weapons...Casey Kasem in stable condition in Washington
Kassem.LOS ANGELES — Radio personality Casey Kasem, whose family has been locked in a legal battle over his care, is in stable condition in a Washington State hospital, the spokesman for the deejay's children said on Monday.Danny Deraney, the spokesman for Kasem's children from his first marriage, said the family was still......
Church group removes Alabama billboard quoting Hitler
BIRMINGHAM — A billboard featuring a quote from Adolf Hitler next to pictures of five smiling children was taken down on Tuesday in the city of Auburn, Alabama at the request of the church group that bought it after the sign drew criticism.The billboard message, purchased by Life Savers Ministries to promote the church group, quoted...Wisconsin girls, 12, charged with trying to kill classmate
Morgan Geyser (pictured) and Anissa Weier have been charged with attempted murder after they allegedly stabbed another 12-year-old 19 times, police said.WISCONSIN — Two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls were charged as adults with attempted murder on Monday after authorities said they lured a middle school classmate into the woods in a...U.S. reconstitutes group to fight homegrown extremists
WASHINGTON — The United States is reviving a law enforcement group to investigate those it designates as domestic terrorists, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday.Following hate-motivated shootings such as the one at a Jewish Community Center in Kansas City, Missouri in April, federal prosecutors have pressed the need to...Taliban prisoner swap raises questions over Qatar’s role
WASHINGTON — After playing a critical role in the prisoner swap that freed the last American soldier held captive in Afghanistan, Qatar faces new scrutiny by the United States over whether it will enforce restrictions on five released Taliban fighters.Concerns have been expressed by U.S. intelligence officials and Congressional......
FBI, in historic policy change, to record interrogations
WASHINGTON — The FBI and several other U.S. federal law enforcement agencies will reverse a policy that has long prohibited the recording of interrogations of people held in custody, a Justice Department memo issued last week said.The new policy, effective July 11, creates a presumption that agents of the Federal Bureau of...American doctor shot dead in Pakistan in suspected sectarian attack
Qamar.ISLAMABAD — An American volunteer cardiologist was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday, a member of his minority Ahmadi community said it is the latest attack on a group that says it’s Muslim but whose religion is rejected by the statet.Mehdi Ali Qamar had taken his wife, young son and a cousin to a graveyard in Punjab......
Political groups seek audit of NYPD surveillance tactics
NEW YORK — A coalition of political activists filed a complaint on Tuesday seeking an audit of New York City police surveillance practices, saying law enforcement overstepped privacy protections and spied on political groups and their members.The complaint was filed with the Office of the Inspector General, a watchdog post...Obama argues for a middle ground approach on foreign policy
WEST POINT, N.Y. — President Barack Obama fought back against critics of his foreign policy on Wednesday, May 28, by insisting U.S. reliance on diplomacy over military intervention was working to resolve global crises like the sanctions in Ukraine and Iran; and he pledged to ramp up support for Syria's opposition.In the commencement......
