BY MARGO THORNING President Obama recently released his fiscal year 2015 budget proposal. In it, he calls for greater investments in natural-gas production. This comes shortly after the surprising news of a favorable administration environmental report on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, a planned $7 billion project that would deliver 800,000 barrels of oil […]
The Taliban found Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl walking alone, acting abnormally and cursing his countrymen before they captured him in Afghanistan in 2009, two men who were Taliban commanders at the time told NBC News on Thursday. They said that Afghan locals first informed fighters about the soldier, and then the fighters rushed to capture him. […]
(CNN) — After a series of raids, police made new arrests in the public stoning death of a pregnant Pakistani woman, bringing the total of people in custody to 12. Farzana Parveen, 25, was killed in Lahore last month because she married a man against her family’s wishes. READ MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/world/asia/pakistan-stoning-death/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
Volvo’s latest model is a taste of what’s to come, and it marks a radical change in the way it builds cars. The S60 compact was mildly updated last year with a new front fascia and interior, but for 2015 it debuts Volvo’s new engines of the future. They’re called Drive-E, an environmentally friendly name. […]
President Obama, facing rising bipartisan criticism over his handling of the Taliban-for-Bergdahl prisoner swap, dug in his heels Thursday and declared he would make “absolutely no apologies” for bringing an American soldier home — as his administration stepped up its defense of the controversial deal. The president fielded a question on the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl […]
FROM CPD On Tuesday June 3, 2014 at 7 p.m. ,The Clarkstown Police Department responded to a report of a missing 74 year old Alzheimer’s patient who had wandered away from her home in Nanuet. Three specially trained officers/members of the Clarkstown Police Department’s Project Lifesaver team responded to the area. The 74-year-old woman was […]