Dozens of al-Qaida militants battled their way out of prison Wednesday in the latest sign that Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened them to challenge authorities in the country's nearly lawless south, security officials said.

By AHMED AL-HAJ

Associated Press

Dozens of al-Qaida militants battled their…

 

Galliano told the court that he began abusing drugs and alcohol in 2007 against the backdrop of financial crisis and the death of a close friend.

Photograph by: Francois Guillot, AFP/Getty Images

Fashion designer John Galliano told a French court…

Stephen Bannon's 'The Undefeated,' opening in some theaters July 15, is a two-hour encomium to the former Alaska governor, tracking her rise to prominence in the state.

Kenneth E. Melson's exit would be the biggest response yet to the uproar over an operation that allowed the sale of weapons to suspected agents of Mexican drug cartels.

Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, in 2009. (Eric Gay / Associated Press / August 13,…

By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF

By EDWARD WONG

Published: June 22, 2011

BEIJING — The Chinese vice foreign minister warned the United States on Wednesday to stay out of the increasingly tense territorial…

And because the TSA is…

http://www.southerntimesafrica.com/article.php?title=Why_Africa_needs_secret_societies&id=6026

Princess Diana's famous butler, Paul Burrel, who worked for the British Royal Family for 21 years, is the man who revealed in 2002 that Queen Elizabeth II called him one day after Diana's death and told him:



'Be careful, Paul; nobody has ever been as close to a…

Found on Daily Paul via WRH

http://www.dailypaul.com/128682/hey-the-gig-is-up-federal-reserve-act-has-a-backout-clause

WATCH NOW: The GIG is UP:Money, the Federal Reserve and You. by Populist lawyer, Gary Fielder.…

 By Ray McGovern

Despite opposition — and even warnings — from the U.S. government, a group of Americans will join a small flotilla of boats challenging Israel’s blockade of the 1.5…

A U.S.soldier who had most of his leg muscle blown off in Afghanistan has become the first to see it grow back in a pioneering experimental operation.

Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a truck in Afghanistan.

With such severe muscle damage Hernandez would ordinarily have had his leg amputated.

But a re-think in the way soldiers are treated led to the wounded warrior being injected…

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, June 21, 9:34 AM

Facility: COOPER

Region: 4 State: NE

Event Date: 06/19/2011

Event Time: 19:40 [CDT]

RELEASE OF OIL TO THE MISSOURI RIVER

Notification is being made to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality regarding the release of oil to the Missouri River from the Cooper Live Fire Training Facility. Currently, levees separating the Training Facility and the Missouri River are being over topped due to flooding of the Missouri River. This condition has resulted…

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Audio Blog 15

In this must-listen…

Un-flipping-believable.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/06/17/37457.htm

NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant. 

     "The injunction at this stage…

Killing Democracy One File at a Time: Justice Department Loosens FBI Domestic Spy Guidelines

While the Justice…