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A prosecutor and a defense lawyer presented jurors with dueling portraits of accused Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger on Wednesday: Was he a "hands-on killer" and top FBI informant or a small-time gangster who never squealed to the feds? Nearly two decades after Bulger went on the lam, his federal racketeering trial is finally under way. The 83-year-old head of the Winter Hill Gang f...
A storm system brewing over the Midwest threatened tens of millions of people Wednesday with heavy rain, hail and perhaps even a derecho — a rare, explosive wind pattern that forecasters compare to the landfall of a hurricane.Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland were all in the threat zone, with Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Washington at risk of severe storms on Thursday.The system, the product of hot air ...
Four men remain in critical condition after their small plane crash landed on a Kentucky golf course Tuesday evening, according to a spokesman for the University of Louisville Hospital.The plane, a four passenger Cessna 172 aircraft, crashed near the 18th hole on the Seneca Golf Course in Louisville, according to report filed by the Federal Aviation Administration.The plane was registered to Cardi...
Self-identified NSA leaker Edward Snowden broke the low profile he has kept since passing details of two classified American government surveillance programs to reporters, saying he is “neither traitor nor hero” in an interview with the South China Morning Post.“People who think I made a mistake in picking [Hong Kong] as a location misunderstood my intentions,” Snowden told the paper. “I am not he...
HOUSTON -- The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday planned to call for the removal of some of the Boy Scouts’ leadership after the youth organization voted to allow gay youth to join, but would not ask its affiliated churches to pull its sponsorship of Scouting.The call will be made by a SBC committee, which released a proposed resolution to be voted on at the convention’s annual meeting in H...
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), called Corporate Pirates of the Caribbean, details how the CEOs who make up the group Fix the Debt, a group pushing for harsh austerity measures, are set to make even higher profits off of the policies they are pursuing in the name of "balancing the budget." Fix the Debt's members are pushing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare and earned social insurance benefits, while seeking to widen tax haven loopholes by creating a "territorial" tax system, which would earn them as much as $173 billion.
