CALIFORNIA: The chancellor of the University of California at Davis apologized to a jeering crowd of more than 1,000 demonstrators for the use of pepper spray last week by campus police on protesters. “You may not believe anything I say. It’s my responsibility to earn your trust,” Chancellor Linda Katehi…
NEW YORK: New York police arrested a 27-year-old man they called a “lone wolf ” militant on charges of plotting to build bombs to kill American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Jose Pimentel, a follower of late Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , made his first appearance in a state…
WASHINGTON: Police were investigating a shooting incident near the White House, but it was not believed to have anything to do with the presidential residence . President Barack Obama was in San Diego, California , at the time of the incident on his way to the Apec summit in Honolulu.…
NEW YORK: Peaceful marchers sent a clear message to vandals who torched cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn where Woody Allen was raised: Don’t repeat the kind of attacks that once led to the Holocaust. About 100 Midwood residents joined elected officials for the…
WASHINGTON: The United States has deployed predator drones to Turkey from Iraq for surveillance flights in support of Ankara’s fight against Kurdish rebels, a Pentagon spokesman said. With US forces withdrawing from Iraq by the end of the year, the four American unmanned aircraft will be shifted from an air…
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare reform, under fire from rival Republicans ahead of next year’s elections. The nation’s nine top justices will “likely” hear the case in March, a court spokesman said, and are expected to issue…
WASHINGTON: The US said that there is no change in its visa policy with regard to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, but asserted that the state has a very welcoming environment for American business to flourish. “No, there are no new developments on that,” assistant secretary of state for south…
NEW YORK: Police arrested 70 protesters at New York’s Zuccotti Park, including some who chained themselves together, while clearing the park so that sanitation crews could clean it. Concerns about health and safety issues at Occupy Wall Street camps around the country have intensified, and protesters have been ordered to…
LOS ANGELES: Jurors in the involuntary manslaughter case of Michael Jackson’s doctor begin deliberations after a six-week trial that painted Conrad Murray as either an inept and opportunistic physician or a naive outsider granted access to the pop superstar’s inner realm. The seven-man , fivewoman panel listened intently as prosecutors…
WASHINGTON: US ex-president Bill Clinton next week presents his book ” Back to Work”, which analyses the nation’s moment of crisis and suggests ways to create jobs and stimulate competitiveness in clear support for the strategies proposed by current President Barack Obama. Local media say with this book Obama, who…
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