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The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.
Newly released White House tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President John F. Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam's strongman in a situation that appears to mirror President Barack Obama's quandary today in dealing with Afghanistan's shaky government.
U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband.
The recession has dramatically changed many Americans’ shopaholic habits, at least temporarily and perhaps forever.
You couldn’t find a more contented dog than the mutt sprawled on the couch in the TODAY studio, his head resting on his master’s thigh, a loving hand petting around his abbreviated ears.
Mortifying childhood memories come easily to Candice Broom, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher from Birmingham, Ala.
A pickup truck in Mexico pulls up to the 5-foot vehicle barriers that make up part of the multibillion-dollar border fence. A retractable ramp is extended from the truck, forming a bridge up and over the barriers.
A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.
Police arrested a man Tuesday who they say headed the operations of the "La Familia" drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan.
An international tribunal has upheld the sentences for three rebel leaders convicted of crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.
One immigration agent was accused of running an Internet pornography business and enjoying an improper relationship with an informant. Another let an informant smuggle in a group of illegal immigrants. And in a third case, an agent was investigated for soliciting sex from a witness in a marriage fraud case.
A Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug and racketeering charges.
A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mexican official told The Associated Press.
In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.
Attorney General Eric Holder calls it the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the U.S. — the arrest of more than 300 people in a series of drug raids across the country.
More than 4,000 ethnic Tamils displaced by civil war left government-run camps Thursday, the latest to be released amid international criticism that Sri Lanka is moving too slowly to let thousands of others go.
The host of a meeting of NATO defense ministers is harshly criticizing the U.S. over its 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Three once-powerful members of Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in San Diego.
Blending a sardonic sense of humor with a healthy dose of things that go bump in the night, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” is a mostly entertaining horror-comedy that introduces us to a world which, with any luck, we’ll get to know better over the course of a few more movies.
Tens of thousands of cheering people filled the streets in front of Georgia's parliament, but they came to make a movie, not stage one of the capital's frequent mass demonstrations.
The Israeli and U.S. militaries were set to begin a major joint air defense exercise Wednesday, highlighting military ties between the two allies at a time of heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear program.
U.N. prosecutors opened their genocide case against Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday — despite his continued boycott of the case — calling him the "undisputed leader" of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia's brutal four-year war.
Target Corp. has thrown itself into a heated price war on books expected to be top sellers.
Prosecutors on Monday accused a Sudanese rebel leader of planning an attack that killed 12 African peacekeepers, in the first Darfur case to reach an international tribunal.
Dennis Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War?Washington - Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: "Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?
Focusing on Ft. Hood Killer's Beliefs Is an Easy Out to Avoid the Deeper Reasons for the MassacreAn other light on the Fort Hood tragedy
Web post by Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan could shed light on motivesInvestigators trying to understand why a US army psychiatrist launched into a shooting spree on a military base in Texas will be poring over an internet posting he is thought to have made comparing the sacrifice of Islamist suicide bombers and American military heroes.
This week November 11th is the official Veterans Day. I urge everyone out here in the Newsvine world, if you know a veteran thank them, if not find one and thank them for the sacrifice they make to keep us safe and free. Without the veterans we would be no where.
Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategySame ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.
Obama 2008 Victory was a Fluke..Cons lead Libs 2-1What happened? The vaunted Obama realignment vanished. In 2009 in Virginia, the black vote was down by 20 percent; the under-30 vote by 50 percent. And as for independents, the ultimate prize of any realignment, they bolted.
Fort Hood Massacre: The Largest 'Terror Act' Since 9/11The most important matter now is not to fail in our analysis of the motives. This is not an issue of sheer frustration because of foreign policy or revenge for racist slurs, nor is this an issue of simply being a Muslim American or a member of any faith.
Guinea's Rape HorrorThe date, 28 September, was repeated by just about everyone I spoke with there - women and men - etched in their memories as if they had been branded. It is etched in mine too - and yet I was not at the main stadium in Conakry on that day.
t r u t h o u t | Mass Shooting Indicates Breakdown of MilitaryWe as citizens of the United States need to take better care of our soldiers before and after they return from War. Who is protecting them while they are protecting us.
A Soldier's Nighmare: Dying for Nothing!The focus of the president, according to news reports, is to devise a strategy with the right accompaniment of military personnel and equipment to meet the objective he establishes.
Police Raid Fort Hood Suspect's Home as 13th Victim Dies From Injuries - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.comSuspected gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who reportedly feared an impending war deployment, is wounded but alive in a hospital under military guard, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood said Thursday night.
Afghan insurgents make wreckage of U.S. armored vehiclesTaliban -led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled grenades, according to U.S.
It Was a Terrible, and Preventalble Tragedy. But It Wasn't Unusual. Army Experiences Significant Increase In Violent Incidents and Suicides over Last Several Years.It's too bad it will likely take a tragedy like todays to finally open peoples eyes to the true affects of war. And there is nothing honorable or romantic about it.
Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don't Believe the Hypethe war in Afghanistan worth the sacrifice of even one American life? Former U.N.
12 die in US military base shooting - AOL NewsDARKER STILL... Is anyone listening. Things don't just happen!
Obama's last chance for exit from Afghanistan - Salt Lake TribuneWith less troops and support from Afghanistan, it is the last time for US to withdraw from Afghanistan. Their startegy is not work in Afghanistan.
Air Force: 'Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilities' with BioscienceThe Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can "degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities." It's all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Research Lab's "Human …
Brits put Cold War bunker on preservation listA 20-year-old U.S. built bunker left obsolete by the fall of the Berlin Wall has joined world-famous landmarks on Britain's fabled list of historic gems.
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — VoltaireQuestion: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? Answer: Five. Barack Obama has waged war against only Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. He's holding off on Iran until he actually gets the prize.
Order of Australia for General Petraeus who led US Alliance forces in Occupied Iraq (!)The head of US Central command, General David Petraeus, who led US forces in Occupied Iraq was appointed an honorary officer of the Order of Australia (its highest award) by MP Faulkner at a ceremony in Washington.
Taliban in 'Tactical Retreat' in PakistanThe Taliban in the militants' stronghold of South Waziristan are making a "tactical retreat" in response to a Pakistani military offensive, a spokesman said Wednesday. More Articles
Spinal injuries up among troops Afghan insurgents are using roadside bombs powerful enough to throw the military's new 14-ton, blast-resistant vehicles into the air, increasing broken-back injuries among U.S. troops.
'Everyone hates Jews,' declares Islamic clericJERUSALEM – Trees, animals and non-Jewish athletes despise Jews, declared an Egyptian cleric on his country's television network.
New Yorker: The Gaza Invasion, What Really HappenedEvery opportunity for peace in the Middle East has been led to slaughter, and at this isolated desert crossing, on June 25, 2006, another moment of promise culminated in bloodshed.
One American's Afghan withdrawal - thestar.comAs such, the decorated Marine says, the point of the continued occupation is called into question.
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