Authorities said a 16-year-old U.S. high school student was shot and killed at a Costa Rican hotel by a security guard who mistook him for a thief. High school senior Justin Johnston of McLouth, Kansas was shot in the chest before dawn Thursday at the La Cangreja Lodge hotel in the city of La Fortuna […]
Alabama lawmakers approved a comprehensive law cracking down on illegal immigrants in the state, getting even tougher than what the controversial anti-immigration measure passed by the state of Arizona required. After the Republican-dominated Alabama legislature passed the bill on Thursday, Gov. Robert Bentley, also a Republican, will sign the bill into law shortly. A provision […]
Nuclear power plants in Germany once produced a full quarter of the electricity in Europe’s largest economy. But the Fukushima reactor incident have accelerated the planned phase-out of nuclear energy in favor of less-risky renewable types of power. Today, the German government announced that all 17 of the country’s nuclear power plants will be shut […]
Joplin may not be a prominent city in the United States, but President Barack Obama made it clear Sunday that the government considers the tornado disaster as a ‘national tragedy’ that will be met with full support. President Obama watched the devastation left by the Joplin tornado as he flew over the city where he […]
Water on the moon, thought to exist in scant amounts, exists in abundance after all, albeit in a form unlike what commonly appears here on Earth. A new study published in the journal Science reports that scientists have discovered that water on the moon is locked inside orange glass soil that are found scattered on […]
US First Lady Michelle Obama gave a message of hard work on Wednesday as she drew on her own family life to inspire a group of London schoolgirls on a visit to Oxford University. “She’s amazing,” one schoolgirl whispered excitedly on her way out, after Obama rounded off a speech and question and answer […]
A gamma ray burst in the farthest reaches of the universe may hold the key to understanding how the cosmos was born. NASA researchers said Wednesday that a gamma ray burst 13 billion light years away is a rare event to “witness” – 1 out every 1,000. This particular explosion was first seen on […]
Harold Camping, the California-based American radio preacher who incorrectly predicted the end of the world on May 21, will be proven wrong once again when his revised doomsday date of October 21 comes and goes without incident. Many other Christian pastors believe that only God knows the exact date of the end of the world […]
Elizabeth Smart can finally end a dark chapter in her young life with the sentencing of her abductor on Wednesday. Brian David Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison for abducting, raping and holding her hostage for nine months in 2002. Elizabeth Smart was only 14 years old when Mitchell took her at knifepoint […]
Patriot Act extension on some of the law’s key provisions is up for a vote in the U.S. Congress as lawmakers tiptoe the fine line between upholding privacy rights and meeting anti-terror goals. Wiretaps to spy on communication devices, access to business documents and surveillance of co-called “Lone Wolf” terror suspects were all meant to […]
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