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How Children Transformed America

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics
Marian Wright Edelman

On this 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Children's Crusade it is a time to remember, honor, and follow the example of the children who were frontline soldiers and transforming catalysts in America's greatest moral movement of the 20th century.

Woman Robbed Bank With Spaghetti Sauce: Cops

Newser.com | Posted 04.08.2013 | Crime

The woman, about 60, put a bag on the counter at a Michigan Fifth Third Bank, said it contained a bomb, and demanded money. "It did look like there wa...

The TSA's Gun Fixation

Christopher Elliott | Posted 05.21.2013 | Travel
Christopher Elliott

Truth is, the TSA is looking for a one-in-a-billion terrorist who wants to blow up a plane and the rest of the time, it's supposed to be in the customer-service business, coaching passengers through a hopelessly convoluted and confusing screening process.

AFI Review: The Personal War of Ginger and Rosa

Brian Formo | Posted 01.09.2013 | Los Angeles
Brian Formo

Writer/director Sally Potter has switched the shift typical of films set in the 1960s from personal and sexual enlightenment to stone-still disillusionment in Ginger and Rosa, which begins with the mushroom cloud of Hiroshima.

Trial Begins For Would-Be Bomber Who Wrote 'Time For Jihad' In Journal

AP | BETSY BLANEY | Posted 08.22.2012 | Crime

AMARILLO, Texas — Federal agents who searched the Texas apartment of a Saudi man accused of gathering materials to make a bomb found sulfuric ac...

Would-be Bomber Writes 'Time For Jihad' In Journal

AP | BETSY BLANEY | Posted 08.20.2012 | Crime

LUBBOCK, Texas — Twice in the days leading up to Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari's arrest federal agents secretly searched the Saudi man's West Texas apa...

Texas Lawmaker's Office Firebombed

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 03.21.2012 | Politics

An arrest was made Tuesday evening in an apparent firebombing outside the Fort Worth office of a Democratic Texas state senator. The Star-Telegra...

The Bangkok Bombing Attributed to Iran: A Scene From a Keystone Kops Movie or a Clever or Rushed Maneuver by the Iranians?

Haggai Carmon | Posted 04.18.2012 | World
Haggai Carmon

Did the three suspected Iranians terrorists in Bangkok reenact a scene from the early 1920s silent film comedies -- the Keystone Kops featuring clumsy...

It's Saudi Arabia, Stupid!

Haggai Carmon | Posted 04.09.2012 | World
Haggai Carmon

With the winds of Israel-Iran war looming, albeit thus far primarily in the media, many observers speculate whether Israel will launch an attack on Iranian nuclear installations.

Pentagon Seeks Mightier Bomb Vs. Iran

The Wall Street Journal | Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes | Posted 03.29.2012 | World

WASHINGTON--Pentagon war planners have concluded that their largest conventional bomb isn't yet capable of destroying Iran's most heavily fortified un...

Bomb Joke No Fun For FedEx Employee Charged With Threat Of Terrorism

AP | Posted 03.27.2012 | Weird News

SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors in Utah charged a FedEx driver with a threat of terrorism count over allegations he joked that a package he was del...

Christina Hendricks In Talks To Star In 'Bomb'

Posted 02.22.2012 | Entertainment

Everyone can agree that Christina Hendricks wears the 60s well. And it looks like she has no intention of trying on a new era for size. The actres...

Ray Sanchez

Jose Pimentel, New York Bombing Suspect, Was Frustrated By Unemployment, Mother Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Ray Sanchez | Posted 11.22.2011 | Latino Voices

NEW YORK -- The mother of the man accused of plotting to build and detonate bombs in New York said Monday that her son had grown increasingly frustrat...

Iran: To Bomb Or Not To Bomb, That Is The Question

Haggai Carmon | Posted 01.11.2012 | World
Haggai Carmon

Will the world be safe with messianic Ahmadinejad's fingers on the nuclear trigger while his other hand controls the spigots of 30% of the world's oil supply? Will reason direct his actions or will his messianic doomsday beliefs prevail?

Man Burying Dead Cat Finds Himself In An Explosive Situation

Posted 11.12.2011 | Weird News

An Ohio man made a potentially explosive discovery this weekend when he unearthed a box of TNT while burying a family pet. Adrian Ayers, 37, of Bla...

Police Investigating Bomb Threat Near Ogilvie Transportation Center

Posted 11.12.2011 | Chicago

Police are investigating a bomb threat that was called into Metra police Monday morning. Metra spokesman Tom Miller said a male caller told police ...

Al Qaeda Bomber Leaves Behind A Fingerprint

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 07.23.2011 | World

WASHINGTON — The FBI has a fingerprint and forensic evidence linking al-Qaida's top bomb maker in Yemen to a trio of explosive devices used in r...

Bus Bombing Kills Ten In Afghanistan

AP | HEIDI VOGT and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 07.18.2011 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Anger over a nighttime NATO raid flared into violence in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday as an estimated 1,500 people cla...

The No-Fly Zone Decision

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Chris Weigant

President Obama is in a tough spot on the whether or not to push for a no-fly zone over Libya. He is weighing the costs and benefits of the situation, and his reluctance to get involved may turn out, in the long run, to be the correct decision.

New Development In MLK Parade Bomb

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

SPOKANE, Wash. — The two T-shirts found with a bomb placed along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane both came from the same ne...

Lethal Bomb Found Along MLK Day Parade Route

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

SPOKANE, Wash. — The FBI offered a reward Tuesday for information about a potentially lethal bomb found in a backpack along the downtown route o...

Could The Yemen Mail Bomb Have Reached New York?

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

WASHINGTON — A mail bomb that was intercepted in England last month would have been in Canadian airspace when authorities say it was timed to de...

Four Men Convicted In NYC Bomb Plot

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — For weeks, a jury listened to tapes of James Cromitie ranting against Jews and U.S. military aggression in the Middle East and talkin...

MORE BOMBS: Angela Merkel's Office Receives Suspicious Package

AP | NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, ELENA BECATOROS and MELISSA EDDY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

ATHENS, Greece — Suspected Greek terrorists unleashed an unprecedented two-day wave of mail bomb attacks in Athens and abroad, with one package ...

Astoria Characters: The Super-Human Handyman

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Nancy Ruhling

Sead Cerovic, aka Cera the Bull, is a big guy. His 6-foot-2 frame stands on 240 pounds of monumental muscle.