FORT MEADE, Md.– Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, along with four co-defendants charged with planning and carrying out the attacks, acknowledged to the judge today that they understand and have no questions about their rights.
The execution of 51-year-old Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to take place on Tuesday evening, and if the sentence is carried out, will be the first female since September of 2010 to be put to death.
A Wisconsin man was arrested during the early morning hours of Saturday in Franzen, Marathon County, Wisconsin for Drunk driving after he was found passed out behind the wheel with a six-pack of beer beside him on the front-passenger seat.
U.S. Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, is set to face his peers Thursday at a confirmation hearing for his nomination as secretary of state.