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An independent scientific review of the U.S. government’s management of America’s iconic wild horses is highly critical of the current policy of rounding them up, removing them from the range and placing thousands of mustangs a year in captivity. The at times scathing report by a 14-member panel assembled by the National Academy of Sciences says “business as usual” is expensive and unproductive, a...
On Sept. 28, 2000, the first CIA Predator drone took off from a base in Uzbekistan on its maiden flight and soon spotted “a tall man in flowing white robes” in a compound just outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan. “While the resolution was not sufficient to make out the man’s face, I don’t know of any analyst who didn’t subsequently conclude that we were looking at (Osama bin Laden),” wrote former CIA d...
CHINO, Calif. — Former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten told a parole board on Wednesday, in unprecedented detail, how committed she was to the murders Manson ordered — but insisted that she has changed and is trying to live a life for healing.The 63-year-old Van Houten addressed the board during her 20th parole hearing.The panel was also set to hear from a prosecutor and relatives o...
