President Barack Obama Grants Pardons and Commutation
WASHINGTON – Yesterday President Barack Obama granted pardons to five individuals and commutation of sentence to one individual:
Murkowski Staffer Provides Details on Human Side of Storm
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today received information and images from staff member Bob Walsh upon his return from a three-day, 11 village tour of Western Alaska storm damage. Walsh, a Nome native, visited communities impacted by the violent weather system in early November – including Nome, Unalakleet, Shaktoolik, Kotzebue and Kivalina – and […]
Nearly a Tenfold Increase in the Number of Hospital Emergency Department Visits Involving Non-alcohol Energy Drinks Between 2005 and 2009
A new nationwide report indicates that from 2005 to 2009 (the latest year for which figures are available), there has been a sharp increase in the number of emergency departments visits associated with the use of non-alcohol energy drinks – from 1,128 visits in 2005 to 13,114 visits in 2009. According to the report by […]
ICC Judges Will Decide Where Qadhafi's Son Will Stand Trial, Says Prosecutor
22 November 2011 –It will be up to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to decide where Saif al-Islam Qadhafi, son of the former Libyan leader, will stand trial to face charges for crimes against humanity, the court’s Prosecutor said today as he arrived in Tripoli for talks with national authorities.