Boston
Michael Steele and Juan Williams voice approval of Occupy
In the days before the New Hampshire primary, Occupy Manchester set up a camp in Veterans Memorial Park to serve as daytime base of operations for activists who came from as far away as the West Coast to protest the perversion of politics by corporate money. On the night before voting, the proximity of this [...]
TSA confiscates cupcake and sticks by decision
After confiscating a Massachusetts woman’s cupcake, the federal Transportation Security Administration is defending their decision according to boston.com. Rebecca Hains of Peabody was not allowed to take her cupcake on the plain from Las Vegas to Massachusetts, and called the TSA’s defense “terrible logic.” The TSA says the cupcake was packed in a jar full [...]
World
Special Report: Cambodia’s elusive justice — How the Khmer Rouge Tribunal found itself in a mine field
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Like those lush green pastures with roaming cows and floating pink water lilies in rural Cambodia, where children still lose limbs every year by taking just one wrong step, this little country’s road to justice has been marred by big mine bombs. Those judicial bombs have exploded almost annually since the [...]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has died at age 69. The mysterious, often erratic leader of the north, which has maintained a perpetual state of still war with the south, was believed to be in ill health for a number of years, though accurate reports are all but impossible to obtain in the closed [...]
National
National Weather Service is not getting rid of wind chills
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — Rumors have been spreading that the National Weather Service (NWS) is getting rid of wind chill values, which describe how cold it feels with wind factored in. The truth is NWS offices in the Dakotas and Minnesota are not eliminating wind chills; they are changing the way they warn [...]