CAPITOL HILL — Four days before Americans face massive automatic tax increases and deep federal spending cuts, Washington is showing no signs of forging a deficit reduction agreement to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff.â€
Retired General, Norman Schwarzkopf, the man who led the 1991 Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, died Thursday at the age of 78 in Tampa, Florida.
A nineteen-year-old Pennsylvania man, Benjamin D. Klinger, has been charged with homicide in the death of his 17-year-old girlfriend on Friday in Pennsylvania.
35-year-old Piratheepan Nadarajah and 32-year-old Suresh Sriskandarajah, two operatives of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or the Tamil Tigers, are being arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn after being extradited from Canada.