Displaying items 97-108 of 674
» View herald-mail.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-57
•
Next >
-
Police officer sentenced to prison in British phone-hacking scandal
LONDON — A senior police officer was given a 15-month term in prison Friday, the first person sentenced in the wide-ranging phone-hacking inquiry in Britain. Det. Chief Inspector April Casburn was convicted last month of illegally attempting...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, BBC, Juvenile Delinquency, United Kingdom, Police Investigations
-
Face masks popular as Beijing air quality stays at hazardous levels
FrameworkBeijing warned the city's 20 million people to prepare for at least another day of smog, and officials closed some factories and ordered government cars off the road as pollution remained at hazardous levels. Visibility was reduced to a few hundred... -
US military expands its drug war in Latin America
The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in Panamanian waters on that sunny August...
Tags: Honduras, Restraint of Trade, U.S. Department of Defense, Organized Crime, Defense
-
Oh, for a simpler Super Bowl, with gerbils shot from cannons
Do you ever wish for the simple Super Bowl days, the Super Bowls involving gerbils? I'm talking only a few years ago, when the game had nothing to do with deer antler spray and the TV spots didn't involve white Jamaican racial politics and German...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Alistair Cooke, CBS Corp., YouTube, Ty, Inc.
-
'Argo' writer Chris Terrio on Affleck collaboration
It's a truism that all Hollywood screenwriters learn, either the easy way or the hard way, that filmmaking is a collaborative art. Still, some personality types struggle with that. Not Chris Terrio. That becomes all the more clear when, intending to...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ben Affleck, Staten Island (New York City), Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie)
-
European countries urge citizens to leave Benghazi
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.British, Dutch and German officials urged their citizens to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, warning of an impending but undescribed threat. “We are now aware of a specific and imminent threat to Westerners in Benghazi, and urge...Tags: Benghazi, Western Africa, Justice and Rights, Travel Alerts, Domestic Travel
-
Somerset man to compete at Special Olympics in South Korea
Daily American Staff WriterBAKERSVILLE — Cross-country skiing was a life-changing hobby for Andrew Sambol, who is leaving for Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday to compete in the Special Olympics. The 33-year-old Somerset man was selected to compete after winning a gold...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Special Olympics, Carole King, Cross Country Skiing, Sports
-
Clearing Beijing's air
Ever wonder what life in the United States would be like without a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency? The people of China have gotten a whiff of what happens when there are minimal pollution controls, and they are choking on it. That the air in...Tags: China, Environmental Politics, Republican Party, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Politics
-
Hillary Clinton and the 'clot plot'
Apparently, if the secretary of state needs to take a sick day, she had better get a note from her doctor. A very "transparent" note, a very detailed note. With enough copies to send to her most vociferous critics. Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered a...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, U.S. Department of State, Benghazi, Concussion, Allergies
-
China activists urge visits to confined wife of dissident
Her eyes showing anguish behind her glasses, Liu Xia whispers urgently into the ear of one of the Chinese activists who barrels past the guard at her Beijing apartment – a place that has become her prison. The brief video of their Friday...
Tags: Liu Xiaobo, Activism, Chen Guangcheng, China, Entertainment Events
-
U.S., Afghan officials discuss troops' post-2014 legal jurisdiction
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Afghanistan here on the presence of U.S. forces beyond 2014, the two sides have held preliminary talks on legal jurisdiction over American troops, the lead American...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, International Military Interventions, Military Equipment, Armed Forces
-
Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'
Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...Tags: Prisons, Activism, Human Rights Watch, Justice and Rights, Crimes
Feb 1, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 30, 2013
| Los Angeles Times
Feb 3, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Feb 3, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 17, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 24, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 23, 2013
|Story| Daily American
Jan 14, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 2, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Jan 2, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 15, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for U.S. Embassy topic gallery.