WCCO: Police arrested nine people at the Mall of America Monday, the day after Christmas, after multiple fights broke out, authorities said. Mall of America officials released a statement saying that around 4:20 p.m. 50 juveniles caused a large disturbance in the north food court. Witnesses said the fights started after there were reports that [...]
New York Daily News: MEXICO CITY — When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming. The alert goes out from a taxi driver or a street vendor, equipped with a high-end handheld radio and paid to work as a lookout known [...]
Hawaii Reporter: News that President Barack Obama arrived in Hawaii this weekend to join his wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha in time for a Christmas holiday has been covered by news media worldwide. The first family and their friends have been enjoying a reclusive 17-day holiday vacation in beach front homes in Kailua, [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Easton, Mass.— The race is for a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, but it’s really a referendum on Wall Street. On one side is Democrat Elizabeth Warren, the architect of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and an inspiration for the Occupy Wall Street movement. On the other: incumbent Republican [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Baghdad— He rarely leaves his house. He’s been shot at by gunmen in a passing car. He gets death threats over the phone. “Traitor,” the callers say. “American agent.” Tariq, 27, is a quick-witted, tech-savvy Iraqi who tosses off idiomatic American English phrases such as “I’m outta here” and “That’s [...]
The True Story Of Kwanzaa From Front Page Magazine: On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among African Americans. The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certain sixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the [...]
Los Angeles Times: A Northern California family victimized in a burglary a few days before Christmas is hoping to at least get their dog back. The Lancers lost all of the presents under the tree along with their dog when their home in Morgan Hill, southeast of San Jose, was broken into last week, authorities [...]
Los Angeles Times: A Los Angeles man faces several criminal charges stemming from his arrest last week on suspicion he forced a child into prostitution and sexually assaulted her, police said. LAPD and FBI agents took Michael Vincent Pree, 23, into custody Dec. 21. He is accused of having sex with a 12-year-old girl repeatedly [...]
ABC News: Tucked away behind the white walls of an orphanage in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Kareen had no inkling of the life that awaited her. At 4 years old, her fate was seemingly sealed. Within a matter of months, Kareen was scheduled to be transferred to an adult mental institution, where she [...]
(AFP) – Brazil has overtaken Britain as the world’s sixth largest economy, a London-based research group said Monday. In its latest World Economic League Table, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said Asian countries were moving up while European countries were slipping down. Brazil’s population of about 200 million is more than three [...]
(AP) – SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Police on Monday arrested the suspect in a shooting that critically wounded a soldier at his Southern California homecoming party after he survived a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan. Police said Ruben Ray Jurado, 19, was being sought in the attempted murder of 22-year-old Christopher Sullivan before turning himself [...]
Ron Paul hanging out, smiling with white supremacist Stormfront.org founder Don Black New York Times: The American Free Press, which markets books like “The Invention of the Jewish People” and “March of the Titans: A History of the White Race,” is urging its subscribers to help it send hundreds of copies of Ron Paul’s collected [...]
(CBS/AP) As pharmaceutical companies are approaching the final stages of development for a new type of painkiller said to be 10 times stronger than Vicodin, addiction experts worry a new wave of abuse may soon follow. Four companies have begun patient testing on the pills which contain a pure version of the highly addictive painkiller [...]
The Times-Union: Vandals on Christmas Eve inflicted the most extensive damage to the Capital Holiday Lights display in Washington Park in its 15-year history there. Sgt. Lenny Ricchiuti, who heads the Albany Police Athletic League, which puts on the display as a fundraiser, said 15 light displays were damaged, graffiti was sprayed on corporate sign [...]
The Gothamist: Comedian Joe Mande pointed us in the direction of a new holiday-themed video comedian Denis Leary posted on his website this week. It turns Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special into some sort of very uncomfortable jihadist joke. As Mande put it, “I still can’t get over how profoundly fucked up and confusing it is. [...]
Well the war in Iraq is officially over. For some of us though it will never end… some will be forever haunted by their memories of their time there. Some will forever hold the brotherhoods they made there near to their hearts. And still other will carry the pain of lost loved ones with them [...]
