Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced in City Hall Wednesday that new data shows that 90 percent of guns used to commit crimes in New York City in 2011 came from outside of the state.
The percentage of weapons recovered from out of state was an increase from 2009, when 85 percent of guns used in city crimes came from outside New York State.
By Lesley Wroughton in Islamabad, Reuters, July 31, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Pakistan late on Wednesday for a day of talks aimed at easing tensions over U.S. drone strikes while putting pressure on the nuclear armed nation to do more to eliminate militant havens on its territory.
Intelligence officials today released top secret internal briefings they had provided to members of Congress that outline the dragnet phone call metadata surveillance program lawmakers secretly knew about but could not tell Americans when publicly voting for it.
[.....] Under a wrinkle that dates back to enactment of the law, members of Congress and thousands of their aides are required to get their coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.
But the law does not provide any obvious way for the federal government to continue paying its share of the premiums for the comprehensive coverage.
By Elise Viebeck & Molly K. Hooper, The Hill, July 30, 2013
The Republican civil war on ObamaCare funding is intensifying.
The battle pits powerful rank-and-file freshmen such as Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) against veteran Washington players, including Karl Rove, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).
For some people with severe mental illness, life is a cycle of hospitalization, skipped medication, decline and then rehospitalization. They may deny they have psychiatric disorders, refuse treatment and cascade into out-of-control behavior that can be threatening to themselves or others.
When Justice Department officials announced the results of a two-year investigation into civil rights violations at the Miami Police Department this month, it was the 11th time in two years that the federal government had put a local law enforcement agency on notice that it must change its ways or face a federal lawsuit.
ROME—Some of Italy’s top politicians on Saturday rallied behind the country’s first black minister, a target of racist slurs since her appointment in April, after a spectator threw bananas at her while she was making a speech.
Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge, who is originally from Democratic Republic of Congo, was appearing at a political rally in Cervia in central Italy on Friday, when someone in the audience threw bananas towards the stage, narrowly missing it.
By Yasser Rizq, Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt) by Al Monitor, July 25, 2013. Home page lede: The editor-in-chief of Al-Masry Al-Youm provides perspective on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the lead-up to the ouster of Egyptian President.
I don't recall ever having hesitated before writing something as much as I have now. [....]
TRIPOLI — Libya's prime minister said he would reshuffle the cabinet and reorganize the government to cope with the "urgent" situation in the country following killings in the eastern city of Benghazi that sparked violent demonstrations.
Recommended for those who, like me, need to work on a getting a better grasp of the Korean War. Not really a true "video," more like a short slideshow with spoken captions, so doesn't take a lot of time or bandwith.
Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form.
One needs to read the whole article; it's complicated. A lot of the major companies contacted by the reporter denied any such thing going on or implied it is rare and fought it.
By Javed Hussain and Jibran Ahmad, PARACHINAR/PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Reuters, July 26, 2013
Suicide bombers on motorcycles blew themselves up within a minute of each other outside Shi'ite mosques in a volatile Pakistani town near the Afghan border on Friday, killing at least 39 people, officials said [.....]
