At least 19 people have died and 17 others were injured in an apparent Taliban attack targeting the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan. Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi, the governor of Herat province, told the AP news agency that the attack began at about 6am local time (2am GMT) on Friday with a powerful car bomb […]
The mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, has apologized for the actions of a former police commander and others involved in the alleged torture of black suspects. It’s part of a 12 million dollar court settlement. Al Jazera’s John Hendren reports from Chicago.
96-year-old Fred Stobaugh lost his wife of 72 years, Lorraine, in May of this year. Fred isn’t a writer; he isn’t a musician, but a few weeks later the lyrics to a song came to him: “I was sitting here one night, oh about six weeks after she passed away and just sat here kind […]
Suspicious that their dog was overly protective of their son and had been extremely aggressive towards their babysitter, Benjamin and Hope Jordan placed a cellphone under their couch. The recording revealed that their babysitter of five months, 22-year-old Alexis Khan, had been abusing their child. WCSC 5 of Charleston, S.C., reported that the parents […]
There is more fallout this week over the alleged use of excessive force by two Tallahassee, Florida, police officers. Last month, Tallahassee, Fla. police arrested 44-year-old Christina West for allegedly driving drunk after she crashed her SUV into a house with three foreign-exchange students in the backseat. The arrest quickly turned violent, however, with West […]