Thursday, February 9, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Rioting follows Maldives president's resignation
MALE, Maldives (AP) - Supporters of the Maldives former president rioted through the streets of the capital and seized some remote police stations Wednesday to demand his reinstatement, as the country's new leader appealed for an end to the political turmoil roiling this Indian Ocean island nation.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans put aside their usual antipathy toward President Barack Obama on Wednesday to give the president, and his successors, the line-item veto, a constitutionally questionable power over the purse that long has been sought by presidents of both parties.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Pakistani army was meeting with NATO and Afghan forces today in an effort to improve coordination along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a sign of thawing relations after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last year.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
WASHINGTON - Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."
Thursday, February 9, 2012
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri teenager who confessed to murdering a 9-year-old girl faces the possibility of life in prison when she's sentenced this morning.
Prosecutors described Alyssa Bustamante, 18, as a thrill killer who lacked remorse. Defense attorneys said she was a disturbed child who deserved the chance of freedom one day.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The No. 2 U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that U.S. military advisory teams will start deploying to Afghanistan this year to help Afghan combat forces as they take a more prominent role in fighting the Taliban.