It was announced on Wednesday, by the U.S. Justice Department, that John R. Koesterman was arraigned on tax fraud, 12 counts of mail fraud as well as five counts of aggravated identity fraud.
A huge fireball erupted from the Williams Olefins plant in Geismar, Louisiana early this morning as an explosion was set off. Over 600 people were working at the plant at the time of the explosion.
The man who outted the U.S. government's secret monitoring of telephone calls and the monitoring of the Internet, Edward Snowden, a former NSA worker, told the South China Morning Post that "I'm neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American."
A series of meetings will be held this week at the White House that will most likely determine whether or not the United States will be arming the Syrian rebels and at what extent that arming will reach according to U.S. officials.