Indian-origin woman dies in US jail after 15-day hunger strike
Chicago, Jan 28 (PTI)
An Indian-origin woman, who was being held at a Chicago jail for allegedly failing to show up for jury duty, has died in custody after a 15-day hunger strike.
52-year-old Lyvita Gomes, a former airline trai...
TAMPA -- A new voting law passed by the Republican controlled Florida Legislature last year will suppress the turnout of Democratic voters in the critical swing state, according to election experts and critics who testified i...
Authorities in Tennessee say they’ve arrested a man who’s suspected of threatening the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” in America.
Knox County Sheriff’s deputies in Knoxville served a search warrant and seized computer and other evidence Friday from the home of 33-year-old Adam Eugene Cox.
The United States will send a team to North Korea this year to search for the remains of missing U.S. veterans of the Korean War, the Defense Department announced Friday.
The search -- the first such mission in seven years -- will be conducted sometime this spring by members of the Joint Prisoner...
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Friday that “The Third Jihad,” a film depicting many American Muslim leaders as extremists, “should not have been shown” to New York City officers.
The film was played on a loop for officers during 2010 in a waiting area outside a counterterrorism traini...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow co...
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May.
Panetta told CBS's "60 Minutes," in a profile to be broadca...
President Obama and Vice President Biden on Friday worked to rally congressional Democrats preparing to do battle with Republicans leading into the 2012 election.
In remarks at the annual House Democratic retreat near the shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Obama rallied the House Democrats with a campa...
Delays are a fact of life at New York’s three main airports.
Each day, thousands of passengers are stuck on planes at the airports — Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark Liberty International — sitting in line behind a dozen other planes waiting to take off or circling overhead until they get clearanc...
Mayor Chuck Reed called Friday for suspending San Jose's two-year odyssey to regulate medical marijuana clubs, citing a successful referendum drive to repeal rules the city approved last fall and pending decisions that may clarify state law.
"Unfortunately, the law is simply unclear and unsettled...
President Hugo Chavez has been filling top posts in Venezuela's armed forces with hardline political loyalists, raising concerns among critics that the military leaders might not accept the results of th...
Former Mexican intelligence chief accused of ‘dirty war’ disappearances of militants has died
By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, January 27, 7:40 PM
MEXICO CITY — The man who led Mexico’s domestic spy agency and was accused of being behind the disappearances of alleged guerrillas in the 1970s...
Greece says it is ‘‘a step away’’ from a major debt writedown as it resumes talks with private creditors to escape a looming default and stem further turmoil in the eurozone.
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‘‘We are a step away from concluding procedures on the PSI,’’ said Venizelos, just before the start of talks, adding...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Mark Kelly said Friday he is not running for the House seat left vacant by the resignation of his wife, Gabrielle Giffords D-Ariz.
Although it's common for a person to run for a seat vacated by their spouse, Kelly, a NASA astrona...
Unbeknownst to the press, President Obama met this evening with former president George H.W. Bush and his son, former Florida governor Jeb Bush in the Oval Office.
White House officials did not list the meeting on the p...
January 27, 2012 6:56 PM
Report: Pentagon plans floating military base in Mideast
As tensions rise between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear ambitions, the Pentagon is preparing to bring a decommissioned assault ship back into duty for possible deployment to the Mideast
Knoxville lender BankEast was taken over by the state of Tennessee late today.
In a notice posted on the door of the bank's downtown headquarter shortly after 6 p.m., the state Department of Financial Institutions took possession of the financially strapped lender.
Guatemala: Ex dictador to face genocide charges
The Associated Press
Published: Friday, January 27, 2012 at 2:09 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 27, 2012 at 2:09 p.m.
The defense lawyer for former dictator Efrain Rios Montt said Friday that a Guatemalan judge violated due process when sh...
Out of the three officials who met President Obama on an airport tarmac near Phoenix earlier this week, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is now the only one who has characterized the ...
The operator of the Costa Concordia luxury cruise liner, which crashed and partly sank two weeks ago with more than 4,200 people aboard, made its first attempt on Friday to limit the legal consequences of the shipwreck and chaotic evacuation, offering a settlement of about $14,400 to each uninjured ...
Libya's new government is still taking stock of extensive investments made in Africa by the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi before deciding on what it should do next.
Mohammed Abdul Aziz, Libya's deputy foreign minister, admitted on Thursday that the National Transitional Council (NTC) does not ...
(AP) Maryland first lady Katie O’Malley said Friday she regretted her choice of words at a national conference when she said gay marriage legislation in the state failed last year because “there were some cowards that prevented it from passing.”
“I let my feelings get the better of me,” she said ...
Since it began a decade ago, the federal government’s massive investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks has been plagued by missteps and complications.
Investigators initially focused on the wrong man, then had to pay him a nearly $6 million settlement. In 2008, they accused another man, Bruce E....
Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman and libertarian , has also been a businessman who pursued a marketing strategy that included publishing provocative, racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, according to three people with direct knowledge of Paul’s businesses....
California is on the verge of approving the most stringent vehicle emissions regulations in the United States, forcing automakers to cut exhaust by two-thirds and begin mass-producing zero-emission vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
The California Air Resources Board is expected to vote today on a pac...
Spanish unemployment broke through the 5-million barrier on Friday as the new government of Mariano Rajoy began to quietly beg the European Union to ease up on deficit targets that are sending the country hurtling back into recession.
Spain, which already boasted Europe's worst unemployment rate,...
The Pakistani Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has said he wants to see BBC World News back on cable television in his country after the recent ban.
He told the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos that he was "absolutely in favour of giving more freedom" to the media.
WASHINGTON - American officials told NBC News on Friday that they were "aware" of Somali pirates' threats to kill an American hostage they had grabbed over the weekend, but for now the Pentagon and U.S. military has no plans to try and rescue him.
The American, Michael Scott Moore, who wrote a bo...
Unidentified assailants rained rockets on Pakistan’s elite military academy on Friday morning, in an unusual burst of violence near the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in May.
Nine rockets were fired from a hilltop overlooking Abbottabad, a garrison town 35 miles north of Islamabad, sa...
Panel makes final its recommendation to give $50,000 to each victim of N.C. sterilization program
By: Associated Press | Winston-Salem Journal
Published: January 27, 2012 Updated: January 27, 2012 - 1:13 PM
RALEIGH The North Carolina panel responsible for figuring out how to compensate the vi...
Yesterday’s earthquake in North Carolina Democratic politics opened a lot of doors for politicians aspiring to higher office. Enter stage right: former Rep. Bob Etheridge (D), who lost a close race to freshman Rep. Renee Ellmers (R) in 2010.
In a telephone interview with Roll Call this morning, E...
I wrote this tool some months ago while developing on the xPresso publishing system (NO), and has done some rewriting this week to implement further functionality.
The Codificator now provides: - automatic code wrapping in DC board format - conversion of regular HTML-formatted text to DC board formatted text - link extraction from HTML to DC board format - auto fetch of webpages, with on-select conversion of content to DC board format.
It won't boil your coffee or knit you a warm sweater for the winter, but it may help you to be more efficient when you're online discussing politics.
AnoBBS is a opensource 3DES-encrypted Bulletin Board where users encrypt their messages before submit with a common known phrase, using javascript. The server does not know the key, so this is end-to-end encryption where the key is never submitted. The technology used is Ajax and PHP, the forum files are stored as XML. Below is a list of the basic functionality: - user authentication - topic list and topic view - three userlevels; admin, moderator and user - post threads - post and edit replies - print or save threads - edit, delete and lock threads (mod) - edit forumdata and users (admin) - save BBS (admin) - delete BBS (admin)
The BBS is very simple to install and even simpler to use. It requires only a standard php distro on the server and a javascript enable browser to function.
AnoChat is an opensource 3DES-encrypted chat where users encrypt their messages before submit with a common known phrase, using javascript. The server does not know the key, so this is end-to-end encryption where the key is never submitted. The technology used is JX, similar to Ajax. The chat is very simple to install and even simpler to use. It requires only a standard php distro on the server and a javascript enabled browser to function.
Large number of US citizens demonstrated against the war in Iraq (and the possible war in Iran) during this October weekend. Massive turnout in Boston and San Fransisco, and also in Chicago, LA and DC people took to the streets. The message was: NO more war in Iraq! NO to a war with Iran!
