Cuba is praising President Barack Obama’s decision to remove the Caribbean island nation from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Josefina Vidal, Havana’s chief diplomat for U.S. affairs, issued a statement Tuesday welcoming Obama’s “fair decision to take Cuba off a list that it never should have been included on.” Obama informed Congress of […]
A 61-year-old postal worker from Florida, Doug Hughes, is in Capitol police custody after piloting his homemade gyro copter over the nation’s capitol and landing it on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol just after 1 pm on Wednesday. Hughes, who has been planning his flight over a period of months, flew into the restricted airspace, […]
Long-time Alaska resident and fugitive, Joseph Keenan May, who took the identity of his long-dead brother, Michael Camp, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after his plea to eight felony charges, U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced on Tuesday. May AKA Camp, who was arrested at his Eagle River trailer-home in the early morning […]
Another case of officer-involved shooting of an unarmed black man is unfolding in the state of South Carolina, and that officer has been arrested after a video shot by a bystander nearby was released to the victim’s family, who’s attorney in turn, released it to the New York Times. The incident played out after a […]