By Jeff Glor & Ben Eisler, CBS News, Feb. 21, 2013
[....] On Wednesday, 150 federal and state agents raided The SCOOTER Store headquarters in New Braunfels, Texas, and agents remain on the site. [....]
Late last year, former employees told CBS News the company's main goal is not to help patients -- it's to bulldoze doctors into writing prescriptions to boost profits. Former SCOOTER Store employee Brian Setzer said, "Bulldoze and get them to get the paperwork done."
Nigeria's secret service say they have arrested a "terrorist cell" trained in Iran who planned to attack U.S. and Israeli targets in Africa's most populous nation.
The State Security Service (SSS) said they arrested Abdullahi Mustapha Berende and two other Nigerians in December after Berende made several suspicious trips to Iran where he interacted with Iranians in a "high profile terrorist network".
Big bucks flowing to California home owners under mortgage settlement
By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Feb. 21, 2013
[....] "California is faring very well under this deal," said Katherine Porter, the UC Irvine law professor who is serving as the state's monitor of the settlement with 48 state attorneys general.
About 41 percent of the relief so far has gone to Californians, she said.
By Peer Gatter, ForeignPolicy.com, Feb. 18, 2013 (with Slideshow)
For Imam Yahya, one of the last kings of Yemen, qat was a delight, something to be praised in his poems. For his adversary, the revolutionary Mohammed al-Zubayri, the plant was "the devil in the shape of a tree."
The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.
Review of The Untold History of the United States, a book and television series by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick [Gallery Books, 750 pp., $30.00; Showtime, ten episodes ]
Venezuela's high inflation rate is making it difficult for many people in the country to purchase basic foods.
Some blame the government's price control of food for the crisis, while the ruling socialist party accuse the private sector of hoarding food and being greedy.
WASHINGTON -- The budget dispute in Washington is about to have a very real impact on the people who build and repair our military ships. The industry says 100,000 jobs are on the line because the Navy is planning to delay the repair of nearly two dozen ships. The official announcement is coming tomorrow.
Tens of thousands of workers -- just in the shipyards of Virginia -- are at risk of losing their jobs because of the budget cuts. One of them is Mike Patterson, a pipefitter at BAE systems. [.....]
A report out today by the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington says that the Obama administration has made the decision that the US can make do with just two thirds of its current arsenal of deployed strategic nuclear warheads.
Newsweek abridged translation of Jyllands-Posten article by Orla Borg, Carsten Ellegaard Christensen & Morten Pihl, Feb. 10, 2013
Even Obama knew the name of the Danish double agent who never got his due for helping lead U.S. drones to Anwar al-Awlaki. Now he's telling his own story.
By David L. Kirp, New York Times guest Op-Ed, Feb. 9/10, 2013
[....] Union City makes an unlikely poster child for education reform. It’s a poor community with an unemployment rate 60 percent higher than the national average. Three-quarters of the students live in homes where only Spanish is spoken. A quarter are thought to be undocumented, living in fear of deportation.
Police who are investigating a series of sexual assaults in the southern French city of Marseille have arrested identical twin brothers. The 24-year-old unemployed delivery drivers, named locally as Elwin and Yohan, were placed under investigation on Friday. Officers say they are sure that one of the two men carried out the attacks, but that they do not know which.
, a book and television series by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick [Gallery Books, 750 pp., $30.00; Showtime, ten episodes ]
Even Obama knew the name of the Danish double agent who never got his due for helping lead U.S. drones to Anwar al-Awlaki. Now he's telling his own story.