Category: North America

The defendants were all pro-Palestinian activists, but it wasn’t clear what they’d been arrested for. Soon the government conceded it would not introduce criminal charges, instead seeking to deport the group by alleging material support to a communist organization—an ancient Red Scare statute that would soon be declared unconstitutional. The case quickly became a mess, […]

Modern military fighter aircraft are extremely expensive to procure with the unit cost for a single F-35A coming to $98 million, according to Lockheed Martin LMT -3.65%. That program has already gone down as the most expensive weapons system in history and it’s set to cost $1.509 trillion through to 2070. The amount of money needed […]

A man who drove his car into a fence at CIA headquarters in Virginia earlier this year explained Tuesday in court that he suffers from bipolar disorder and was experiencing a manic episode at the time. “It has always been difficult for myself and my family,” Thomas Luu told a judge in Alexandria federal court […]

The violence continued late Sunday, when one person was shot at a protest of about 150 people. Officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim and take him to the hospital.

The U.S. Navy lieutenant who apologized on video for “a mistake” while he and his crew were being held by Iranian captors in January is appealing his discipline for violating the service’s code of conduct, The Navy Times reported. Lt. David Nartker was given a non-judicial punishment last week by the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, […]

A T-45 trainer jet with an instructor and student pilot crashed late Sunday night. Both pilots ejected safely and were transported for medical evaluation. Officials with Naval Air Station Kingsville state the jet went down 17 miles southwest of the airfield at approximately 9 p.m. local time. NAS Kingsville is one of the US Navy’s primary training […]

An Iowa man was arrested Thursday and was charged with desecrating the U.S. flag after hanging it upside down beneath a Chinese flag in protest at his home. The Fort Dodge Messenger reported that Homer Martz, an Army veteran, of Somers, put up the flag to protest an oil pipeline being built without his consent […]

Police said one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim and take the person to a hospital, as tense skirmishes erupted for a second night following the police shooting of a black man. Some two dozen officers in riot gear confronted about […]

Update: 23:22 EST: Port Authority stated they have not found any evidence of an active shooter at this time. No injuries have been reported and the investigation is ongoing.

A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent Saturday night in the hours after a Milwaukee police officer shot and killed an armed suspect during a foot chase on the city’s north side. After an hours-long confrontation with officers, police reported at 10:15 p.m. that a gas station at N. Sherman Blvd. and W. Burleigh St. […]

An imam and another man are dead following a double shooting in Queens on Saturday afternoon. CBS2’s Valerie Castro reported the imam and a man from his congregation were each shot in the head while on their way home from a local mosque by a man who came up behind them. The shooting took place near Liberty Avenue […]

A crowd gathered and at times grew violent Saturday night in a Milwaukee neighborhood where a police officer shot and killed a man after a traffic stop and foot chase earlier in the day. Police said the man was armed with a handgun, but Assistant Chief Bill Jessup told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that it […]