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Change and innovation comes not from the status quo, but from disruption. It takes a disruption in our everyday lives to stop us in our tracks, make us reflect and decide to make a change. This idea of cognitive disruption comes from Brazilian scholar Sebastiao Ferreira. The recent wave of courageous acts of nonviolence for immigrant rights proves this true--particularly the win just this week by the DREAM Nine immigrant youth leaders.
A grenade-wielding man who killed four people and injured four others in two shootings in Texas was trying to kill a former girlfriend and his estranged wife, police said Thursday, according to The Dallas Morning News.
As the FBI dusts off its files on a 1964 kidnapping and reunion mixup, the man at the center of the case has uncovered a tantalizing clue through his own sleuthing.
A man suspected of kidnapping a 16-year-old Southern California girl might be armed with homemade explosives, authorities said Thursday.San Diego County Sheriff's Capt. Duncan Fraser said evidence recovered at James Lee DiMaggio's home east of San Diego, Calif.
FORT MEADE, Md. — U.S. soldier Bradley Manning's release of secret files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history helped al Qaeda's recruiting efforts, an expert on radical Islam testified on Thursday.
Nearly four years after the deadliest attack at a U.S. military installation, Army soldiers testified about the day that changed their lives forever in Fort Hood, Texas."There were a lot of bodies on the ground. The chairs were overturned, a lot of blood on the floor.
Jurors in the Whitey Bulger trial examined a submachine gun with an obliterated serial number that is linked to the last count of the federal indictment but ended their third day of deliberations without a verdict.
South Miami Police are investigating after a man showed up at a police station and said he shot and killed his wife Thursday.
Favorable global feelings toward the United States have returned to 2002 levels, matching generally warm, pro-American sentiments measured just prior to the Iraq War: 64 percent of the planet’s inhabitants tend to like America, according to numbers tabulated for NBC News by the Pew Research Center.
The Atlantic hurricane season, just heading into its peak, should be more active than normal, with 13-19 named storms, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in an update Thursday.
