Pakistan’s Supreme Court has disqualified a lawmaker from the ruling party for five years after finding him guilty of threatening judges in a speech last year.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
{FD} AP Exclusive: AP confirms 5 unreported Myanmar mass graves
The faces of the men half-buried in the mass graves had been burned away by acid or blasted by bullets.
{FD} Computers stolen in SF Bay Area being resold in Vietnam, police say
Police in the San Francisco Bay Area have linked numerous car break-ins to a multimillion-dollar crime operation that involves the sale of computer tablets and laptops on the black market in Vietnam.
{FD} Vietnam veterans recall all-female Tet Offensive squad
As a 19-year-old scout and spy for the communist forces in South Vietnam, Hoang Thi No remembers the determination and spirit of her 11-member team of young women who took part in the audacious Tet Offensive that turned the tide of the Vietnam War 50 years ago.
{FD} Nashville council may probe whether mayor’s affair was ‘on taxpayers’ dime’
The Nashville city council’s budget chairwoman is reviewing her options to probe Democratic Mayor Megan Barry’s possible misuse of taxpayer funds during her extramarital affair.
{FD} Judge Andrew Napolitano: If the GOP memo is as advertised we’ll see the deep state at its most frightening
I have argued for a few weeks now that House Intelligence Committee members have committed misconduct in office by concealing evidence of spying abuses by the National Security Agency and the FBI.
{FD} Train carrying GOP lawmakers to retreat hits truck on tracks, 1 killed
A train carrying members of Congress to a Republican retreat in West Virginia slammed into a garbage truck on Wednesday, throwing lawmakers from their seats and leaving at least one person dead, officials said.
{FD} Lava spreads more than 2 miles from Philippine volcano
Lava flowing out a Philippine volcano has spread up to 3.6 kilometers (2.2 miles) since it began intense eruptions more than two weeks ago.
{FD} Year after riot, Delaware prison still potentially explosive
One year after a deadly inmate riot and hostage-taking, Delaware’s maximum-security prison remains a potentially explosive, understaffed facility managed by overworked guards overseeing hundreds of inmates with too much idle time on their hands.
{FD} UN roundly condemned for blacklist of companies doing business in Israeli settlements
A report released by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) Wednesday, which seeks to make a database of companies doing business in Israeli settlements, was roundly condemned.