“It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue,” The Los Angeles Times reported back in 2004. The toppling of a statue of former Iraq ruler Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square was widely cited as symbolic of the Iraqi people […]
“It was a Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue,” The Los Angeles Times reported back in 2004. The toppling of a statue of former Iraq ruler Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square was widely cited as symbolic of the Iraqi people […]
A forest guard looks at a one-horned rhinoceros in India’s Kaziranga National Park. (Photo/AP Anupam Nath) As Indian authorities are turning to the use of drones to successfully nab poachers illegally hunting one-horn rhinos, People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is hoping to apply the practice in the U.S. to monitor public spaces […]
A forest guard looks at a one-horned rhinoceros in India’s Kaziranga National Park. (Photo/AP Anupam Nath) As Indian authorities are turning to the use of drones to successfully nab poachers illegally hunting one-horn rhinos, People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is hoping to apply the practice in the U.S. to monitor public spaces […]
This Feb. 3, 2012 file photo shows Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Throughout the country, hundreds of thousands of Americans declare themselves sovereign to America. They refuse to obey state and/or federal laws, refuse to pay their taxes, ignore law enforcement and actively defy any notions of […]
This Feb. 3, 2012 file photo shows Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Throughout the country, hundreds of thousands of Americans declare themselves sovereign to America. They refuse to obey state and/or federal laws, refuse to pay their taxes, ignore law enforcement and actively defy any notions of […]
Indiana University enrolls some 43,000 students and nearly 3,000 academics. (Photo / prw_silvan via Flickr) On Thursday, students and faculty will stage a walkout at Indiana University (IU) to protest a range of institutional problems, including rapidly increasing tuition rates at the public university. Like many universities, tuition and fees have increased sharply, rising 45 […]
Indiana University enrolls some 43,000 students and nearly 3,000 academics. (Photo / prw_silvan via Flickr) On Thursday, students and faculty will stage a walkout at Indiana University (IU) to protest a range of institutional problems, including rapidly increasing tuition rates at the public university. Like many universities, tuition and fees have increased sharply, rising 45 […]
In this April 8, 2013, photo, copies of President Barack Obama’s budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington. Obama is sending Congress on Wednesday, April 10, his long-awaited budget, an effort to achieve an elusive “grand bargain” to tame run-away deficits that have soared […]
In this April 8, 2013, photo, copies of President Barack Obama’s budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington. Obama is sending Congress on Wednesday, April 10, his long-awaited budget, an effort to achieve an elusive “grand bargain” to tame run-away deficits that have soared […]
A North Korean soldier, center top, looks at the southern side as South Korean soldiers stand guard at the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is “considerably high,” […]
A North Korean soldier, center top, looks at the southern side as South Korean soldiers stand guard at the border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is “considerably high,” […]
U.S. singer Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, are surrounded by body guards as they tour Old Havana where a street performer on stilts looks on, right, in Cuba, Thursday, April 4, 2013. R&B’s power couple is in Havana on their fifth wedding anniversary. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Music superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z were quite the spectacle […]
U.S. singer Beyonce and her husband, rapper Jay-Z, are surrounded by body guards as they tour Old Havana where a street performer on stilts looks on, right, in Cuba, Thursday, April 4, 2013. R&B’s power couple is in Havana on their fifth wedding anniversary. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Music superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z were quite the spectacle […]
