Executions in the US have reached a 20 year low in 2014. Botched procedures leading to a horde of legal challenges coupled by a shortage of lethal injections have caused this fall in number of executions. In 2013, thirty five executions were conducted, the lowest number since 1994. The highest execution in any year was […]
14 Charged For Roles in 2012 Meningitis Outbreak
14 persons associated with the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the 2012 meningitis outbreak. The meningitis outbreak took the lives of 64 people. The source of the infection was traced to tainted drug injection. Among the fourteen who were arrested includes three members of the family whose business empire included […]
Hundreds Attend the Funeral of Teen Burned Alive
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of the Mississippi teen burned alive. The police have been tight lipped and have not talked about anything except the fact that they are still investigating. Hundreds of mourners gathered in a small packed chapel. In Mississippi to bid farewell to a 19 year old teen who was burnt […]
Senate to Vote on Spending Bill Monday; Holds Rare Saturday Session for Obama Nominations
The senate is convening a rare Saturday session post some progress towards passing the $1.1 Trillion bill to fund the government Friday night. In spite of some success, lawmakers have been unable to thrash a deal and two Republican senators have asked for the cutting of money which was intended to implement President Obama’s latest […]
California Pounded by ‘Pineapple Express’ storm system
Freak weather conditions have caused widespread power outages in Northern California. Strong winds and torrential rain and snow are slowly moving into southern parts of the state on Friday. Authorities have already evacuated hundreds of people in a Los Angeles suburb, fearing flooding and mudslides. People residing in and around Santa Barbara and other parts […]
Missouri execute inmate with low IQ
Missouri executes inmate on death row. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) announced that he had refused clemency appeal hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected two similar petitions. Paul Goodwin’s execution was contested by His lawyers who said that the 48 year old convict was mentally unstable and therefore not fit to be punished for […]
Fresh Snowden Documents Reveal NSA Actively Snooping On World’s Cellphone Networks
The NSA has been working for years, hacking and snooping into cellphone networks worldwide and is bypassing the security measures according to Edward Snowden documents revealed by The Intercept on Thursday. The Snowden documents reveal a highly confidential operation named AURORAGOLD. The operation was conducted to obtain information pertaining to cell phone carriers’ internal systems […]
DNA Tests Confirm Captives Related To Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
The news that the wife of the leader of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (IS) terror group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been received with mixed reactions. The identities of the purported wife and daughter of the self proclaimed caliph are now being questioned. Lebanon’s interior minister has stated that DNA tests show that the captives are […]
Defense Secretary Race -Ex-Pentagon Official Ashton Carter Is the Leading Contender
Unconfirmed reports emanating from Washington hint that President Obama has bet upon Ashton Carter to be his defense secretary. However the news has not been confirmed and Fox News has only said that he is the top contender for the post. It was CNN which had first burst the bubble that Carter who held the […]
