The federal government thinks long-haul truckers like Bryan Spoon need more rest.
But with the Department of Transportation's new rules forcing drivers to take longer breaks and cut back on hours behind the wheel, Spoon thinks the government has created a solution looking for a problem.
A story of a mistaken identity reveals a lot about the history of black women in America, the challenges of understanding the past, and who we are today.
For three months in 2011 - less than a year after WikiLeaks released its most famous series of documents leaked by Bradley Manning - a mole inside the non-profit organisation provided the FBI with chat logs, videos and other data from Julian Assange and his associates.
(Alternate headline: Somalia: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Drones, We Got Pirates.)
Garowe Online, June 26, 2013
Adaado — Al Shabaab official Hassan Dahir Aweys - on the US most wanted terrorist list - has been reportedly captured in the town of Adaado on Wednesday after fleeing Al Shabaab infighting in southern Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Wednesday set up a special commission of inquiry into the Vatican bank, his boldest move yet to get to grips with an institution that has embarrassed the Church for decades.
The high-powered, five-member panel, which includes four prelates and a woman Harvard law professor, will report directly to him, bypassing the Vatican bureaucracy that itself has sometimes been tainted by allegations of scandal and corruption [.....]
Riots in China's ethnically divided Xinjiang region on Wednesday left 27 people dead, according to Chinese state media, which said that police opened fire on "knife-wielding mobs".
It was the deadliest spasm of violence to hit the troubled western region since 2009.
By Alan Travis, Kate Connolly in Berlin and Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 25 June 2013
The German government has expressed the growing public anger of its citizens over Britain's mass programme of monitoring global phone and internet traffic and directly challenged UK ministers over the whole basis of GCHQ's Project Tempora surveillance operation.
By Jia Lynn Yang, Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz, Washington Post, June 24, 2013
HONG KONG — The message was blunt and was delivered Friday night by a shadowy emissary who didn’t identify himself but knew enough to locate Edward Snowden’s secret caretaker: The 30-year-old American accused of leaking some of his country’s most sensitive secrets should leave Hong Kong, the messenger said, and if he decided to depart the authorities would not interfere with his travel plans.
South Korea has issued a cyber alert after an apparent hacking attack on government websites. The website of the presidential office was one of several official and media sites hit by an apparently co-ordinated attack on Tuesday morning, reports said.\
The identity of the hackers was not known, a government statement said. The incident came on the anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 Korean War, which divided the Korean peninsula.
By Sohel Uddin, Duncan Golestani & Andrew Rafferty, NBC News, June 25, 2013
Explosions and gunfire rocked some of the most heavily guarded areas of the Afghan capital early Tuesday during a Taliban attack on the presidential palace and a Central Intelligence Agency building. The Taliban say they used suicide bombers and small arms during the assault in Kabul, which lasted about 40 minutes.
One victim beaten to death and five others fatally shot in country where few own firearms and gun violence is rare
Associated Press in Beijing, June 23, 2013
In a rare case of gun violence in China a man fatally shot five people and beat a sixth to death, including some of his factory colleagues and a soldier, police have said.
KARACHI: The killing spree continued unabated in Karachi on Friday, claiming lives of at least 16 people, including a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MPA, and injuring at least eight others. According to police, unidentified gunmen opened fire in North Nazimabad, killing MQM leader Sajid Qureshi and his son Waqas Qureshi.
Caracas, Venezuela - Juan "Juancho" Montoyo's walkie-talkie crackles as 30 armed men and a few women standby at the ready in one of Caracas' toughest neighbourhoods.
This collective - which could be described either as a "politicised gang", or a "community protection squad", depending on one's point of view - maintains a degree of order in the January 23 barrio, allegedly working with Venezuela's socialist government and dealing ruthlessly with opponents.
ECUADOR has announced the appointment of a new ambassador in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been holed up in its embassy for nearly a year to avoid extradition to Sweden.
Ana Alban, who was ambassador when Assange took refuge at the Ecuadoran embassy June 19, 2012, is being replaced by former bank superintendent Juan Falconi Puig, Vice Foreign Minister Marco Albuha said.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A U.S. army veteran accused of joining up with an al-Qaeda affiliate to fight the Syrian government has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia.
Thirty-year-old Eric Harroun of Phoenix was indicted Thursday on charges of conspiracy to use a destructive device overseas and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization [....]
By Lois Leveen, The Atlantic, June 27, 2013