U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returns home Monday after breaking his leg in a bicycle crash. Kerry was hospitalized in the Swiss city of Geneva in stable condition after the crash Sunday near Scionzier, France, about 40 kilometers from the Swiss border. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Sunday Kerry had planned to […]
The massive collection of telephone data by the clandestine U.S. National Security Agency to thwart terrorist attacks has been halted in a Washington legislative standoff, but a reformed version of the surveillance could be renewed in the coming days. The spy agency lost the legal authority to collect telephone records Sunday at midnight when the […]
Joseph Biden III affectionately known as Beau,” the son of the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and Delaware’s former Attorney General, died from brain cancer, it was announced by the White House today. Beau was 46. Beau is the second child lost to the vice president. In 1972, VP Biden lost his wife, Neilia, and one-year-old […]
After a seven-day trial in Washington’s Eastern District, a federal jury came back with a verdict of “guilty,” for Spokane man, 45-year-old Louis Daniel Smith for selling industrial bleach as a miracle cure. Smith was found guilty for “conspiracy, smuggling, selling misbranded drugs and defrauding the United States,” the Department of Justice reported. For several […]