Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM’-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) passed the U.S. citizenship test and denied terrorism links just months before he and his brother detonated two pressure cooker bombs that killed three people at the race’s finish line. The revelations were made in hundreds of heavily redacted Department of Homeland Security… Read More
Monday mess! Final Clinton emails to be released today
Following a massive victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is leading in the polls and seems eager to lock up the Democratic nomination on Super Tuesday tomorrow. But there’s one ghost in her past that could still come back to… Read More
Staggering prescription prices have doubled over 7 years
The average cost for a year’s supply of a prescription drug doubled in just seven years to more than $11,000 — about three-quarters of the average annual Social Security benefit. That’s according to the latest study of price trends for widely-used drugs conducted by AARP, the senior citizens advocacy group…. Read More
Catholic Church acknowledges “enormous mistakes” handling molestation
One of Pope Francis’ top advisers acknowledged he had heard that an Australian Catholic school teacher who serially abused students might be involved in “pedophilia activity” in the 1970s, but said he had no idea how rampant clergy abuse was at the time, during an extraordinary public hearing of an… Read More
Outrage! North Korea parades kidnapped American in front of cameras
North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church back home who wanted it as a “trophy” — from a staff-only section… Read More
Former Nazi officer trial on verge of collapse
The trial of a former SS medic on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly helping the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp function appeared close to collapse Monday, after a doctor found the 95-year-old unfit to be transported to the court. Presiding Judge Klaus Kabisch told the Neubrandenburg state court… Read More
Why is this American state terrified of the Zika virus?
On a farm in the heart of Hawaii’s ongoing dengue outbreak, coffee grows wild among the ferns, and vanilla vines climb guava trees. It’s hard to know where nature ends and the farm begins, and that’s the way organic farmers there like it. But state efforts to combat the outbreak… Read More
Blast off! United States and China kick off space race
Is there a second space race coming? China has announced plans to further their space exploration. Rising space power China is preparing to place a second experimental space station into orbit this year followed by a pair of astronauts who will dock with it and live on board for several days…. Read More
[Must see] Over 100 giant snakes rounded up in the wild in Florida
The 106 Burmese pythons captured over a month long hunt won’t help control Florida’s invasive snake population, but wildlife officials said Saturday that doesn’t matter as much as the awareness they bring to the state’s environmental concerns. Thousands of pythons, far from their natural habitat in Southeast Asia, are believed… Read More
Police shooting sparks riots in Salt Lake City
A 17-year-old boy who authorities say was wielding a metal stick was shot and critically injured by Salt Lake City officers Saturday night, touching off unrest downtown as officers donned riot gear and blocked streets and bystanders threw rocks and bottles. The teenager shot by two Salt Lake City Police… Read More