Backpage.com raided, CEO arrested for sex-trafficking

State agents raided the Dallas offices of adult classified ad portal Backpage.com and arrested Chief Executive Officer Carl Ferrer following allegations that adult and child sex-trafficking victims were forced into prostitution through escort ads posted on the site. Ferrer, 55, was arrested on a California warrant after arriving Thursday in Houston on a flight from […]

VP Debate wasn’t as good as I had hoped but, not that bad

The VP Debate aired this week. The world watched as these two older white men duked it out on national television. Tempers rose high and voices were raised, a few times. It was tough to stream this morning on YouTube to review the event. Maybe because so many realized it happened after reading it in […]

Man wielding machete, shot and killed at University of Colorado football facility

A man armed with a machete inside the Champions Center at the University of Colorado’s Folsom Field was shot and killed Wednesday morning, the Boulder Camera reported, citing sources close to the investigation. The Champions Center is the home of Colorado’s football program and athletics administration. In a statement Wednesday afternoon, Colorado athletic director Rick […]

Booz Allen Hamilton contractor arrested for stealing classified computer codes from NSA

The F.B.I. secretly arrested a National Security Agency contractor in recent weeks and is investigating whether he stole and disclosed highly classified computer codes developed to hack into the networks of foreign governments, according to several senior law enforcement and intelligence officials. The theft raises the embarrassing prospect that for the second time in three […]

DOJ drops charges against alleged Libyan arms salesman

The Justice Department has dropped charges against an American accused of trying to sell weapons to Libyan rebels, following a protracted dispute about government documents that could have threatened to embarrass the Obama administration. By asking a federal court in Arizona to toss out the case against defense contractor Marc Turi, the Justice Department avoided a potentially […]

Extremist Imam Tests F.B.I. and the Limits of the Law

For more than a decade, Suleiman Anwar Bengharsa has served as a Muslim cleric in Maryland, working as a prison chaplain and as an imam at mosques in Annapolis and outside Baltimore. He gave a two-week course in 2011 on Islamic teachings on marriage at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, where President Obama made a much-publicized visit this […]

Fresno veteran says terrorist crashed into him at 100 mph

A Fresno man believes he was the victim of a terrorist attack, right here on the roadways in California. Now, he wants the guy who he says attacked him off the streets so he doesn’t hurt anyone else. Scott Alcala was driving to San Jose to play golf with his father, when he says he […]

The DEA paid $9 million to ‘deactivated’ sources

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s management of its confidential sources violated guidelines and exposed the agency to potential “fraud, waste, and abuse,” according to a report released by the Justice Department on Thursday. In total, from fiscal year 2011 to 2015, the DEA shelled out over $9 million to at least 800 deactivated sources, the report found. Doing so went […]

Joakim Noah skips military dinner, cites ‘mixed feelings,’ anti-war stance

New York Knicks center Joakim Noah says he skipped a team dinner at the U.S. Military Academy that featured cadets and a speech by a former colonel because he is against war. Noah added he had “mixed feelings” about spending time at the academy, where the Knicks are holding training camp this week, because he is opposed to […]

U.S.-Russian diplomacy set to fail in Syria, leaving only war.

Don’t poke the bear. The Russians predictably will go the course in Syria. The U.S. is getting close to shutting the current diplomatic process as battles in Aleppo rage onward. “U.S. officials say they are considering tougher responses to the Russian-backed Syrian government assault, including military options, although they have described the range of possible responses […]