Mor e trouble for our planet: limate change has caused the greatest thaw of Greenland’s ice in half a century, perhaps heralding a wider meltdown that would quicken a rise in world sea levels, scientists said on Tuesday. “We attribute significantly increased Greenland summer warmth and ice melt since 1990 to global warming,” a group […]
Our first stop this week is in Germany, where stupid criminals go to a new height: A burglar was caught after he left his finger at the crime scene and police found his prints in their database. Michael Baumgartner, 31, was spotted breaking into a leisure centre in Hamburg, Germany. He fled when police arrived […]
One of the problems with Bush’s wiretapping that isn’t discussed in the public forum much is how he notified Congress of the program. There are clear laws that require the President to seek the advice and consent of Congress and now it appears he even broke those laws: WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 – A legal analysis […]
Now that President Bush has agreed to back John McCain’s torture ban, house rep. Duncan Hunter has some problems with it, leading to another hurdle. Hunter apparently wants some sort of assurances put into the bill that will protect soldiers from criminal and civil penalties if they do engage in torture. This sounds like an […]
The article published in Newsweek on May 9th regarding mishandling of the Quran by soldiers in Guantanamo Bay detention center sparked riots in the Muslim world that lead to numerous deaths and days of unrest. After pressure from the Pentagon, Newsweek retracted this article, stating their source was not credible. Now in the late evening […]