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The Obama administration is urging China, Japan and other countries to scale down their Iranian petroleum purchases to put pressure on Iran while the U.S. and others consider toughening economic sanctions on the regime.
New York Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce is testifying again before the grand jury investigating a gun charge against former teammate Plaxico Burress.
A northwestern Pennsylvania woman appealing her conviction for swinging her infant at her boyfriend during a 2006 fight has made bail.
The call to use oil as a weapon against Israel's friends once would have echoed in capitals across the Middle East. But even as fighting widens in Gaza, threats of an oil embargo by some in Iran and Bahrain are falling flat.
Authorities say a husband-and-wife burglary team robbed about 60 homes in rural eastern Missouri and deputies discovered 100 guns at the home of the man accused of selling the stolen loot online.
Authorities say a Florida man who lives with his parents has been charged with attacking his father with a Christmas tree and its metal stand.
Russia's conflict with Georgia could punish the European Union where it is perhaps most vulnerable: Oil and gas supplies from beyond its eastern frontier.
Iran announced Monday that it has tested a new weapon capable of sinking ships nearly 200 miles away, and reiterated threats to close a strategic waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf if attacked.
It is a politician's dream: Handing out cold, hard cash to people on the street as they plead for help. Iraq's prime minister has been doing just that in recent weeks, doling out Iraqi dinars as an aide trails behind, keeping a tally.
A woman tried to pass off a marker hidden in her pocket as a gun in an unsuccessful robbery of a Cumberland County convenience store. The clerk noticed the woman's suspicious behavior and wrote down her license plate number before she approached the counter.
A woman convicted of swinging her newborn son like a weapon at her boyfriend and fracturing the infant's skull was sentenced Wednesday to five to 10 years in prison.
Iran's potential to shut down nearly 40 percent of the world's oil trade represents a weapon possibly more powerful than its missiles, gunboats or any arms system Tehran claims to possess.
A jury has convicted a woman of swinging her 4-week-old son at her boyfriend during a fight and fracturing the infant's skull.
In one of the longest-held secrets of the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate "important individuals" such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly declassified documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The spray of bullets that killed a police officer and hurt three others this week came from something increasingly common on this city's streets: a high-powered assault weapon, fast becoming the gun of choice for gang members and violent criminals.
Saddam Hussein had been gone just a few weeks, and U.S. forces in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, were already being called unwelcome invaders. One of the first big anti-American protests of the war escalated into shootouts that left 18 Iraqis dead and 78 wounded.
A woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to swinging her 4-week-old son like a bat to hit her boyfriend during a fight, fracturing the infant's skull in the process.
A northwestern Pennsylvania woman accused of using her baby to batter her child's father said she didn't realize what she was doing until it was too late.
A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.
A woman used her 4-week-old baby as a weapon in a domestic dispute, swinging the infant through the air and striking her boyfriend with the child, authorities said.
The Pentagon's "less-lethal" microwave-based crowd-control weapon – the Active Denial System (ADS) – produces potentially harmful hotspots when used in built-up areas, and its effects can be intensified by sweaty skin, tests have revealed. The flaws call into question the weapon's usefulness in hot conditions, like those in Iraq.
He marched with protesters carrying signs saying "Money to U.S., Debt to Taiwan" and other slogans opposing an American offer to sell cutting-edge weapons to this island to defend against a possible Chinese attack.
Taser Wars: The Real Dangers of Loose TriggersLt. Michael Pigott, a 21-year NYPD veteran, ordered an officer on the ground to fire his stun gun. Morales collapsed and fell 10 feet to the sidewalk, landing on his head. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead on Sept. 24, 2008.
Of all the states in India's troubled north east JHARKAND is the third worst effected but it has the greatest potential for a slide into total chaos from its present precarious situation.
It's a Fork, It's a Spoon, It's a ... Weapon, that will get you suspended from schoolNEWARK, Del. — Finding character witnesses when you are 6 years old is not easy. But there was Zachary Christie last week at a school disciplinary committee hearing with his karate instructor and his mother's fiancé by his side to vouch for him.
US welcomes Iran inspection offer US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has given a cautious welcome to Iran's announcement that it will open a newly revealed nuclear plant to inspection.
A. Money Problems. This is the perennial problem of life. How to make ends meet or have a good existence. Problems arise either because there is insufficient money or one party wants to spend it on something which is not agreeable to the other.
I often wonder how people who have never been to a gun show perceive such an event.
Teachers Tackeled and Restrained Chain-Saw Wielding Student Armed With Pipe Bombs at Hillsdale High in San Matego, CAPolice arrested former Hillsdale student Alex Youshock after two of the bombs went off in an empty hallway at Hillsdale High. No one was hurt. Officers had to cut eight bombs off of the 17-year-old before they could take him into custody.
Woman charged in dispute over shopping cart The grocery cart was hers, she said. "I have a knife," Joy Smith, 58, told another shopper. "Give me back my cart."
Denver Officer Pulls Weapon for Faster McDonald's ServiceAURORA, Colo. -- A Denver police officer assigned to Denver International Airport was on administrative leave Tuesday after employees at an Aurora McDonald's said he pulled a gun on them when his order wasn't filled fast enough.
BBC NEWS | Europe | How to dismantle a nuclear bombA joint mock exercise by both UK and Norway, but kept as realistic as possible, of how to disarm a nuclear bomb or verify in the dismantlement of another country's nuclear weapon. A BBC correspondent finds out.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Remembering NataliaNatalia Estemirova a human rights activist was recently murdered in Chechnya, and her last investigation was a possible abduction and murder of 7 women by the State authorities. BBC's Lucy Ash recounts her memory
No sign Iran seeks nuclear arms: new IAEA headThe incoming head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any hard evidence Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear arms.
Taser releases new device fit for shotgunsTaser International Inc. has released a new shotgun-ready projectile similar to its other stun-gun products, but with twice the range and the first with wireless capabilities.
Air Force test fires missile from Calif coast"The Air Force says it has successfully launched an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from a California base, firing it to targets in the Pacific Ocean."
Missing for 50 years - US nuclear bombMore than 50 years after a 7,600lb (3,500kg) nuclear bomb was dropped in US waters following a mid-air military collision, the question of whether the missing weapon still poses a threat remains.
Guns and the Link We Won't Admit" We have decided to let just about anyone have a gun. And we allow a system to flourish in which even those who are supposed to be barred from having weapons—James W.
Man Uses Live Swan to Beat up VictimA man who grabbed a live swan by the neck and used the bird as a club to beat up another man has been sentenced by a court in Munich, local media reported on Wednesday.
Penn Hills Student Expelled Over Eyebrow ShaverIt's not a gun or a knife, but an eyebrow shaver that had school officials in Penn Hills take action earlier this month. A Linton Middle School teenager has been expelled after a random search turned up an eyebrow shaver in her handbag.
Woman used pit bull as weapon in attack, police sayBRADENTON -- A dog was used as a weapon in a Bradenton domestic dispute in which the dog ended up getting stabbed and its owner arrested, according to a police report.
Two Atheists stumble from the woods and stopped at the edge of a clearing. The luscious green grass encircled a strange stone, which had apparently been eroded by the wind to form a cone. The cone, being made of dazzlingly smooth granite, was nothing short of 150 feet tall.
US interpreter who witnessed torture in Iraq shot herself with service rifleShe killed herself two years ago, this is the first I've heard of it. "They refused to say what interrogation she objected to, and maintain that all documents relating to methods used at Tal-Afar have been destroyed." But assuming something along the lines of....
Military Laser WeaponResearch--Defending U.S. Navy Ships at SeaU.S. Navy researchers are asking two U.S.
Love can benefit from well-handled rage, at times, too. The danger in love lies in the sub-sets of Love, like jealousy, vanity, possessiveness, the destructive nature of self-delusion, and the pain of denial.
Wired For War: Military robots and the future of warIn this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of science fiction -- that now may not be so fictitious.
Surgeon Heals Patients and Their Violent WaysCooper created the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) at the Shock Trauma Unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, the state's busiest hospital for violent injuries. It became one of the country's first hospital-based anti-violence programs. More Articles
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