A Coast Guard helicopter and rescue plane resumed the search Thursday
morning for 11 workers missing after a massive explosion aboard an oil
platform off the Louisiana coast.
The rig continued to burn as supply vessels shot water into it to try to control the flames enough to keep it from sinking.
To work in Washington is to become acquainted with protest culture. Protests range from small groups with loudspeakers and gusto to swarming crowds the media are more inclined to cover. Small protests happen very often — if not daily.
The word “bully” might conjure images of a 9-year-old punk shaking down a 7-year-old for lunch money. But teenagers experience bullying, too, and research shows it can be a red flag for depression and suicidal behavior — whether the teen is the bully or the victim.
A group of retired military officers is giving school lunches a new
label: national security threat. They say school lunches have helped
make young people so fat that fewer of them can meet the military’s
physical fitness standards, and recruitment is in jeopardy.
A report released Tuesday said more than 9 million young adults, or 27
percent of Americans ages 17 to 24, are too overweight to join the
military. Now, the officers are advocating for passage of a
wide-ranging nutrition bill that aims to make the nation’s school
lunches healthier.
A judge in Austin granted the divorce, but Texas Attorney General Greg
Abbott is appealing the decision, as well as a divorce granted to a gay
couple in Dallas, saying protecting the “traditional definition of
marriage” means doing the same for divorce.
A state appeals court is scheduled to hear arguments in the Dallas case Wednesday.
Indonesia’s constitutional court upheld a controversial blasphemy law Monday that critics say limits religious freedom in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, ruling that the law is vital to religious harmony.
Though China continuously contends that it has no international
friends, only interests, it seems Africa is quickly becoming more than
a mere interest for China.
Amidst a sea of traditional Ghanaian universities, polytechnics and
colleges, Ashesi University College stands alone as a shining beacon of
liberal-arts education in West Africa.
Spain’s central criminal court, the Audiencia Nacional, began hearings in the case against justice Baltasar Garzón Real yesterday. Right-wing groups, led by Manos Limpias (“clean hands”), had filed suits against the judge after he tried to open inquiries against crimes committed by Francisco Franco and members of the Falange party during and after the Spanish Civil War. The crimes included executions, mass graves, forced labor and sudden disappearances.
Supporters of the nation’s toughest crackdown on illegal immigration,
on the verge of approval in the Arizona Legislature, said the state law
is necessary to help stamp out crime and keep citizens and law
enforcement officers safe.
The measure would make it a crime to be in the country illegally and
require local police officers to question people about their
immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are here
illegally.
Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruit, water and tarpaulins Thursday to victims of a ferocious cyclone that killed at least 121 people in India and demolished ten of thousands of mud huts.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — “King Philip’s War” is a board game based on a
bloody and violent clash of the same name between colonists and Indian
tribes in 17th-century New England.
The game’s designer says he hopes to educate children and others about
a war that cost thousands of lives but receives scant attention in
history books. But some Native Americans want the game blocked from
release, saying it trivializes the conflict and insensitively
perpetuates a stereotype of Indian tribes as warlike savages.
A series of strong earthquakes struck western China on Wednesday,
killing at least 400 people and injuring more than 10,000 as houses
made of mud and wood collapsed, officials said. Many more people were
trapped, and the toll was expected to rise.
A $1.4 million verdict delivered Tuesday by a jury was based partly on so-called “perversion files” secretly kept by the Boy Scouts of America. The Scouts plan to appeal, arguing the files are outdated and do not reflect current prevention efforts or even past policy.
“Thank God for Dead Soldiers.” “You’re Going to Hell.” “Semper Fi Fags.”
Hundreds of grieving families have been targets of Westboro Baptist
Church, which believes military deaths are the work of a wrathful God
punishing the country for tolerating homosexuality.
Most try to ignore the taunts. But Albert Snyder couldn’t let it go,
becoming the first to sue Westboro to halt the demonstrations.
For as long as anyone I’ve talked to can remember, French people have loved to go on strike. About, well, everything.
Train conductors, are you unhappy about your wages? Strike, and shut
down parts of the city’s transportation system. This has happened three
times since I’ve been here, including a strike Tuesday affecting one of
the main commuter train lines.
WASHINGTON DC - Three Democratic congressmen — all black — said they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U.S. Capitol. A white lawmaker said he heard the epithets too. Conservative activists said the lawmakers are lying.
International troops opened fire on a bus carrying Afghan civilians early Monday, killing four people and setting off anti-American protests in a city that is a hotbed of the Taliban insurgency.
Murders without bodies were long considered one of the most complex
challenges in the legal profession, but advances in technology have
made the once-unthinkable prospect more common.
The absence of the key piece of evidence — the corpse — poses unique
problems for both prosecutors and defense attorneys, said Thomas “Tad”
DiBiase, a lawyer who runs a Web site chronicling “no body” murders.
The mission of global fair trade is simple, yet ambitious: to
contribute to global economic development and poverty relief through
education and promotion of products that adhere to fair trade
principles.
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