WASHINGTON, March 19, 2013 – U.S. defenses are sufficient to stand up to current ballistic missile threats, but must continue to evolve because “the threat of ballistic missiles is not going down,†the commander of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command told Congress today.
It has been reported through the Syrian Arab News Agency today that Syrian rebels have attacked Aleppo with a chemical weapon fired from a rocket, killing at least 15 people and injuring another 86.
Late Monday, a power outage at Tepco's Fukushima nuclear generation plant, stopped the cooling for four pools that contain over 8,000 contaminated fuel rods.
NEW ORLEANS – A Jordanian citizen with more than a dozen criminal convictions in Illinois ranging from felony sexual assault to unlawfully carrying a weapon was removed from the United States to Jordan last Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).