Anthony Amore

Well, the final tally is in, and not a day too soon. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan intelligence agent who was found guilty in 2001 of orchestrating the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988, is finally dead. Al-Megrahi is the only person convicted for his...

Remember the story from a few weeks back about how United States military in Afghanistan burned a bunch of Korans?

How could you not? The story was plastered all over the place, with incessant stories about 1) how negligent the military was to let this happen; 2) the apology...

Last Friday, Osbrany Montes De Oca, a lance corporal in the United States Marines, set out to begin his patrol in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. As he was walking out of his base, his girlfriend said, he was ambushed by Taliban forces who shot and killed the 20 year...

I just read a poll that said 43% of Americans believe that god helps Tim Tebow win.

I'm not joking. That's an actual poll as reported here.

This might sound like no big deal. After all, it's only football.

But that's exactly what makes it a big deal....

I learned of Christopher Hitchens' death just after midnight last night, and for the first time in a very long time, I had a dream that I can remember. In it, I was seated across a small table from Hitchens and he looked ghastly, and I realized I was watching...

Calling it "a day to renew our commitment to use our God-given talents to save lives," the American president, speaking from Tanzania on World AIDS Day 2011, spoke of the unmistakable success of PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief). This time, the speaker was actually former president...

If the number of Google searches is any indication, the Occupy Wall Street movement, which spawned offshoots in cities across the nation, appears to be losing steam.

An analysis of the number of searches done for Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Boston, and Occupy Los Angeles via the metrics...

This week, Brown University president Ruth Simmons announced that her campus would continue its policy of excluding the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Simmons cited the opinion of many from the Brown community, who, according the Boston Globe, felt that currently military policies were "not in line...

Alex Neve, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, is calling for the Canadian government to arrest former President George W. Bush when he arrives in that country this week to participate in an economic conference. His justification? Neve falsely claims that Bush "admits" in his memoirs that...

The video of the interview conducted by Al Jazeera's Washington bureau chief Abderrahim Foukara with -- or, more appropriately, against -- Donald Rumsfeld is making its rounds, having quickly gone viral amongst the political junkies amongst us.

It's hard not to watch the aggressive approach taken by...

September 11, 2001, is day marked by extremes. It is hard to imagine a better example of religious extremism than the actions of the 19 maniacs who took control of the four doomed aircrafts. The devastation they rendered was extreme both in terms of loss of life and property. These...

Two weeks ago, in the seaside environs of Marina del Rey, a thief -- or thieves, it's not clear yet -- snatched a drawing purported to be Rembrandt's The Judgment from a small, exclusive exhibition at the Ritz Carlton. Just a month prior, my book, Stealing Rembrandts: The...

The popularity of all things SEAL Team Six-related couldn't be more fitting. The success of the eponymous book by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin and the fitting solemnity over the death of 22 of the team's members last month came quick on the heels of Team Six's...

World War II touched so many millions of lives that it is difficult to focus on the moving individual stories left in its wake. Movies have been made and books written about heroic soldiers, sadistic Nazis, and selfless humanitarians. But for every story that is told, tens of thousands remain...

Two Harvard Law School students have filed a law suit in federal court complaining that the use of full-body imaging scanners and enhanced pat-down procedures is a violation of their Constitutional rights.

The students, Jeffrey Redfern and Anant Pradhan, claim that the use of such procedures is contrary to the...

Last week, I returned to my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Rhode Island, to give a talk as part of Dr. Jimmie Oxley's popular URI Forensic Science Seminar Series. For the second time, I spoke to a group of students and members of the community...

Last week, there was a ceremony in the tiny city of Malden, Massachusetts, to dedicate a World War II memorial to honor that city's contribution to the battle against fascism.

While many American cities have a memorial of some sort to their hometown veterans...

The arrest Saturday evening in New York of two alleged aspiring jihadists is further proof that recent warnings from the FBI and Homeland Security are based in fact: there is an increasing threat from "homegrown" terrorists.

According to authorities, Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte,...

Forget Wyatt Earp and Eliot Ness. And you can certainly keep J. Edgar Hoover.

In the annals of American law enforcement, no one's achievements and innovations can match those of Raymond W. Kelly, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department. Simply put, he's the best...

The theft last week of priceless paintings, including works by Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani, from the Paris Museum of Modern Art was not only a large-scale property theft, but another reminder that our cultural property remains vulnerable to criminals with little regard for our history as a civilization.

High-value...