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Nigeria Mass Infanticide in America
A report from the office of the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that, in 2009 alone, 784,708 successful abortions were carried out in that country. "That's a breathtaking number, no matter which side of the abortion debate you sit on," the report admits. "What this statistic doesn't convey is a more mysterious number: how many ...
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3 arrested in suspected slavery case
>Editor's note: For more information on this story, check out CNN affiliates WKYC, WOIO and WJW.(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment crowded with people and animals for more than a year, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, authorities said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said the people accused ...
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McCaskills early endorsement of Hillary Clinton is meant as a nudge
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Chicago on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott ...
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A guide to the Federal Reserves events Wednesday
In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Federal Reserve ends a policy meeting Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Investors have been nervously speculating that the Fed will soon scale back its economic stimulus and send interest rates up and stock prices down. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce ...
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AP PHOTOS Astrodome JFK terminal endangered
WASHINGTON -- Houston's Astrodome stadium, New York's old Pan Am Worldport Terminal at Kennedy Airport and Montana's one-room schoolhouses are joining a list of the nation's most endangered historic places.On Wednesday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation is releasing its listing of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. It includes sites from Maine to ...
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Call for revising Japan-US military agreement
/enpproperty--> WASHINGTON - The US-Japan Status of Forces Agreement needs revision in order to better catch US military personnel who commit rape in Japan, a Japanese Diet member said Tuesday. Tomoko Abe, a member of Japan's House of Representatives, made the remarks on the sidelines of an event in Washington co-hosted by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, the Council on Foreign ...
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Mexico detains FBI Ten Most-Wanted fugitive in beach resort
CANCUN (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Tuesday arrested a former U.S. university professor, who recently was added to the FBI's 10 most-wanted list and faces sex crimes charges in the Philippines. Walter Lee Williams, 64, was arrested in the southern beach resort of Playa del Carmen. The FBI said he was an anthropology and gender studies professor at the University of Southern California ...
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Accused Colorado theater gunmans lawyers seek psychiatric hospital video
DENVER (Reuters) - Attorneys for the former graduate student charged with shooting 12 moviegoers to death in a Denver-area theater last summer have renewed their bid for access to a videotape of their client at the hospital where he was undergoing psychiatric ...
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SF Mayor Celebrates Pride Month Weighs In On Prop. 8 Case
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee raised the LGBT rainbow flag at City Hall late Tuesday morning, ushering in Pride Month and optimism about an upcoming decision on marriage equality from the U.S. Supreme Court. Standing on the mayor’s balcony at 11 a.m., Lee unfurled the multi-colored flag, about two weeks before the annual Pride parade and accompanying ...
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Grass Fire Burns More Than 140 Acres In Benicia
BENICIA (CBS SF) — A grass fire burning in an open space area in Benicia that grew to 142 acres Tuesday is now 80 percent contained, fire officials said. Crews responded to reports of a fire near an industrial park in the 4500 block of California Court around 2:20 p.m., according to a Benicia fire dispatcher. The fire, which is burning near Lake Herman Road about a mile west of ...
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5 Things Learned In Game 3 Of Stanley Cup Finals
BOSTON (AP) - Five things learned in the Boston Bruins’ win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night: ___ SUPAH TUUKKA: Tuukka Rask is proving the Bruins right for putting their faith in him. Rask watched the Bruins’ entire 2011 Stanley Cup run from the bench while Tim Thomas led Boston to the NHL title, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy in the ...
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Outside View America strikes out
Using a baseball metaphor, in the field of national security, when the United States comes to bat, it often starts with 2 1/2 strikes against it. Strike 1 is the chronic tendency to misinterpret, distort and even invent threats often for politically expedient reasons. Strike 2 is the failure to address the question of "what next?" once crucial foreign or national security policy ...
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Calif.-based burger chain Johnny Rockets sold
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. -; Johnny Rockets, the Southern California-based burger chain with 1950s flair, has been sold to a private equity firm that targets underperforming and specialty ...
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Boy 6 dies after dog attack at N. Calif. home
UNION CITY, Calif. -; A 6-year-old San Francisco Bay Area boy died after he was attacked by a dog that belongs to his uncle, who is a police officer, authorities and a family spokesman said ...
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Sports Briefing | Tennis American Upsets Top Seed at Eastbourne
Jamie Hampton, an American qualifier, upset top-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, 7-6 (2), 6-2, in the first round at Eastbourne, England. ...
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Feds say Calif. hospice owes $112M for fake claims
Pacurar said internal audits had found that the organization sometimes requested, and received, Medicare's $172-per-day hospice reimbursement for patients who did not meet the government's technical requirement that hospice patients have six months or less to ...
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Wall Street opens higher boosted by New York manufacturing data
U.S. stocks opened broadly higher Monday, as investors awaited Wednesdays Fed policy meeting, with increasing confidence that the Fed wont start tapering in super-easy ...
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Wall Street close in green ahead of the Feds meeting tomorrow
U.S. stocks closed higher Tuesday after U.S. housing starts and consumer inflation rose below estimates last month as investors await the end of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting ...
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EU shares rose ahead of the Federal Reserve decision
The European Union saw its market opening and closing the day in green to actually rebound from their longest streak of weekly losses in 14 months as investors awaited this week’s Federal Reserve meeting for signs on the pace of stimulus ...
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Govt report Smooth launch unsure for health law
WASHINGTON - There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first in-depth independent look at its progress.But in a report to be released Wednesday, the congressional Government Accountability Office also sees positive signs as the Oct. 1 deadline approaches for new health insurance markets ...
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McCaskill endorses Hillary Clinton presidential effort
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, an early backer of Barack Obama in 2008, on Tuesday announced her backing of Ready for Hillary, a group encouraging the former secretary of state to run for president in ...
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KC terrorist supported plan to bomb New York Stock Exchange FBI tells Congress
Everyone knows someone who is habitually late. It’s a maddening trait to the unafflicted who see the problem as remarkably easy to fix: Start earlier. That’s how the Royals’ two new hitting coaches, George Brett and Pedro Grifol, diagnosed Eric Hosmer’s ...
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Cummings releases the IRS transcript
House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings did what Republican Chair Darrell Issa refused to do - he released the full transcript of the committee's six-hour interview with an IRS manager in Cincinnati where Tea Party applications for 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status were processed. MSNBC's Alex Wagner discusses with former Oversight Committee staff director Julian Epstein and ...
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Gitmo vs. food stamps GOP hypocrisy exposed
MSNBC's Alex Wagner digs into why House Republicans are okay with paying $900k per year for every GITMO prisoner, but want to cut food stamp funding for the poor. One Congressman justifies it by citing the ...
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NSA director Surveillance stopped 50 terrorist plots
The head of the NSA has now testified before the House Intelligence Committee on the NSA surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden. But have we learned anything new? Last Word guest host Alex Wagner is joined by MSNBC's Ari ...
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