A blast in Mohmand, Pakistan, has killed 40 people and injured 70. The blast occurred in the early hours of Monday in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province per reports from Express TV. A group of tribal elders had gathered in the Mohmand agency district when the explosion occurred. Officials...
A pardon is official forgiveness of a crime and the penalty/penalties associated with it, granted by the head of state (like a president or monarch) or a church authority. In many countries, a pardon is granted after those who have committed an offense have fulfilled their debt to society or are...
The White House announced Friday, December 3, 2010 that President Barack Obama has pardoned 9 people of for a wide range of crimes. Though officials in Washington, DC, did not comment on why Obama chose to pardon the people of their crimes, White House spokesman Reid Cherlin offered a statement...
Joe Rehyansky, a Vietnam veteran and former part time judge in Hamilton County, Tennessee, has sparked controversy with outrageous comments posted to the Daily Caller website on November 26, 2010. Rehyansky submitted to the site his feelings regarding gays in the military, his support of lesbians...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is in some legal hot water. Interpol just added Assange to a world wide most wanted list. On November 30, 2010 Interpol released a warrant for Assange's arrest. The warrant was issued by the international public prosecution office in Gothenburg, Sweden and contains...
Universally and instantly recognizable, the President of the United States – the heads of state and government of the world’s largest superpower, the commander–in-chief of the US Armed Forces, the omnipotent and oft-termed “Leader of the Free World” – requires no long-winded or flowery introduction. What does require clarification, however, are the notions of “smartness” and “dumbness”.
Beginning November 29, 2010, United Nations representatives from 194 nations in Cancun, Mexico, have convened to discuss the issue of climate change. The Summit, formally known as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Bill O'Reilly used his FOX News show The O'Reilly Factor to vent his take on the 250,000 disclosed diplomatic cables. O'Reilly's show aired on Monday, November 29, 2010 just hours after the latest round of Wikileaks went public. During the broadcast, O'Reilly vehemently rendered the Wikileak...
The UK's royal Prince Andrew and the U.S. are the hardest hit by the Wikileaks latest cache release. It seems that included in the 271,000 international diplomatic disclosure is revealing information regarding a profanity filled tirade by Andrew. The Duke of York presented "unmitigated patriotism,"...
North Korea has braced for a war as it readies missiles in anticipation and preparation for the U.S. air craft carrier USS George Washington's arrival on Monday, November 29, 2010. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reports that North Korea has deployed SA-2 surface to air missiles in the disputed...
