Molly McKitterick January 06, 2016 Occupied by armed protesters, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is described as remote and barren. However, it is not a “nameless piece of ground,” said Brent Fenty, executive director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association. “It is critically important to wildlife and enjoyed by millions» of human and avian visitors, he […]readmore
VOA News January 06, 2016 A U.S. federal court in New York Wednesday charged an American citizen with conspiring to set off a truck bomb outside a U.S. military base in Afghanistan in 2009. Muhanad Mahmoud al-Farekh could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted. «Farekh, a citizen of the United States, […]readmore
VOA News January 06, 2016 A college in the midwestern U.S. state of Illinois is taking steps to fire a professor who linked Islam to Christianity in an online posting. The administration at Wheaton College, a Christian evangelical university, has recommended associate professor Larycia Hawkins lose her tenured-track position. In a December 10 posting on […]readmore
A tearful President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he was taking executive action, bypassing Congress, to implement new «common-sense» measures aimed at reducing gun violence in America. “In Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s words, we need to feel the fierce urgency of now, because people are dying,” a visibly emotional Obama told an audience of mass […]readmore
VOA News January 06, 2016 7:29 AM A U.S. Marine is appealing his conviction in the death of a transgender Filipino woman, his lawyer said Wednesday. Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton was found guilty of homicide in December for killing Jennifer Laude after he found out she was a transgender woman. Judge Roline Ginez Jabalde […]readmore
Associated Press January 06, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO—Despite the potential for flooding and mudslides, storms moving toward California were welcome news for a state suffering from a severe drought. But officials warned against reverting to old water-use habits. As the first of the storms drenched the state on Tuesday, authorities cautioned that even the wettest of […]readmore
Washington D.C. – Last night, the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project succeeded in halting the deportation of four Central American families apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend, who had been scheduled for deportation this morning. Based on interviews with the families, who are currently detained at the South Texas Family […]readmore
VOA – NEWS Ken Schwartz -Baltimore is about to embark on a $700 million effort to tear down empty and crumbling buildings in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods and replace them with affordable housing, stores and parks. The first area to be transformed is Sandtown-Winchester — the primarily African-American neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew […]readmore
Boston, Mass. – Ex estudiantes que según dicen fueron abusados sexualmente en un prestigioso internado mixto de Rhode Island, tres de ellas ofrecieron el martes una conferencia de prensa en Boston y pidieron una investigación independiente. La Escuela St. George en Middeltown anuncio el mes pasado que encontró que 26 de sus estudiantes fueron abusados […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Steven F. Pagliarini, 57, Executive Vice-President and Treasurer of Central Landscaping Construction Company, located in Johnston, R.I., and Executive Vice-President of Central Nurseries, Inc., located in Chepachet and Johnston, R.I., has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to charges that he allegedly orchestrated a scheme in which Central Landscaping avoided paying […]readmore