A devastating, mile-wide tornado touched down near Oklahoma City on Monday, leveling homes, businesses and schools in the suburb of Moore. There were no immediate reports of fatalities or injuries. The funnel cloud could be seen for miles, creating a debris field several miles wide. Weather officials estimated the strength of the tornado to be […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of […]
BY ANTHONY MELE (Originally published September 1, 2011) The American people will never want to believe that 30 American soldiers were needlessly shot down in Afghanistan while onboard a Chinook transport helicopter on a rescue mission. They would resist the idea that their deaths were in vain or a result of treachery or betrayal. We […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN Who can free three women from a decade in captivity—and go on with life giving the utmost of amiable interviews? That would be Charles Ramsey. His hilarious demeanor and dialogue are what has turned his face into meme after meme, his interviews into auto-tune after auto-tune. May 6 was a day like […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN Three brave women are finally free in Cleveland, Ohio after being held against their will for an entire decade. The women—Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight—were teens and in their early 20s at the time of their kidnapping. They went missing at separate times, but in close vicinity of one another, […]
Six months after Hurricane Sandy left parts of the East Coast leveled and underwater, killed 159 people and caused at least $70 billion in damage, a new report reveals yet another dimension of the destruction: 11 billion gallons of partially or untreated sewers leaked into rivers, lakes and waterways in the aftermath of the storm. […]