After the shocking arrest of Henry Louis Gates, a Harvard University Professor on the charges of disorderly conduct and behavior, the Cambridge police dropped the charges on Tuesday calling the incident unfortunate and regrettable. Gates was arrested during a burglary investigation by the police...
The U.S. Army has identified the man shown captured in a video filmed by the Taliban in Afghanistan as an American soldier. The military mentioned that his name was Pte Bowe Bergdahl. He is 23 years old and belongs to Ketchum, Idaho. He was captured by the Taliban from a U.S. military base near...
A Russian Made Iranian Passenger Jet with 168 people aboard flying from Tehran to Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia crashed into a field near the city of Qazmin which killed all its 168 passengers. This is Iran's worst air disaster in the last six years. The plane was a part of Caspian Airlines...
President Barack Obama has announced that Regina Benjamin, a family physician from Alabama, will be Surgeon General. Benjamin is the first black woman to head a state medical society. "For nearly two decades, Dr. Benjamin has seen, in a very personal way, what is broken about our healthcare...
The New York Times is reporting Former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to withhold information from Congress about a secret counterterrorism operation. Current CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers about Cheney’s role in keeping the program secret on June 24...
Officials announced that NASA has canceled Saturday's launch effort of space shuttle Endeavour on a construction mission to the International Space Station to assess possible damage from overnight lightning strikes. The launch was rescheduled for 7:13 p.m. EDT on Sunday. The shuttle is carrying...
Amateur video of Neda Soltani lying dead in the street has become a symbol of Iran's opposition movement. The footage is less than a minute long and shows blood streaming from the Iranian woman’s nose and mouth. The images of her death have unleashed a stream of outrage at the administration’s...
Philip Markoff, the 23-year-old medical student who allegedly killed a masseuse he met on Craigslist, has been indicted and will be arraigned tomorrow morning in Suffolk Superior Court. Markoff has been charged in the April 14 killing of 26-year-old Julissa Brisman, a masseuse who advertised on...
PETA wants the President to try taking a more humane approach the next time he's harassed by a fly in the White House so they are sending him a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows users to trap a house fly and then release it outside. "We support compassion even for the most curious,...
An expedition on the Nangaritza River of Ecuador, near the border with Peru, has uncovered a dozen new or endangered species, including the glass frog. The Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum is known as a glass or crystal frog because you can see all of its internal organs through its transparent flesh....
