Yahoo | ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The human head and torso were inside the red biohazard tub in what was supposed to be a routine shipment of medical waste from New Mexico to a Kansas company. That gruesome discovery last week turned out to be just the start. Over the next few days, six more heads and t...

Presstv | A civil rights group unveils documents revealing serious flaws by the US government in compensating families of civilians killed in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Citing the revelations of more than 13,000 pages of documents on Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union...

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) – Westside Schools will remain on a limited lockdown for the remainder of Thursday after police advised the school to go on lockdown after a man was spotted in the area carrying a rifle. The Craighead County Sheriff's Department alerted the school to lockdown the buildings as a...

Time | (VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico) — Dozens of gunmen mounted rare and apparently coordinated attacks targeting two army garrisons in northern Mexico, touching off firefights that killed 18 attackers. The attempts to blockade soldiers inside their bases — part of seven near-simultaneous attacks across t...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Job cuts accelerated in March, driven by planned reductions on government payrolls, a report released Thursday showed. Employers announced plans to cut 67,611 jobs in March, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. That's up 61% from February, ...

(CNN) -- A Lebanese man charged with sorcery and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to be beheaded on Friday, the man's lawyer said Wednesday. May El Khansa, the attorney for Ali Hussain Sibat, told CNN that she and Sibat's family were informed about the upcoming execution. She said sh...

nytimes | WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the National Security Agency’s program of surveillance without warrants was illegal, rejecting the Obama administration’s effort to keep shrouded in secrecy one of the most disputed counterterrorism policies of former President George W. Bu...

washingtontimes | Obamacare is a socialist law designed to take money from some Americans and use it to benefit others. The health care bill signed into law by President Obama is full of hidden time bombs. One costly provision buried in the lengthy reconciliation bill at the last minute has taxpayer...

KABUL (AP) -- Opium seizures in Afghanistan soared 924 percent last year because of better cooperation between Afghan and international forces, the top U.S. drug enforcement official said Thursday. The Taliban largely funds its insurgency by profits from the opium trade, making it a growing target ...

aljazeera.net | The bodies of 21 babies, believed to have been dumped by hospitals, have washed ashore on a riverbank in eastern China, state media has said. Video footage showed that the bodies, stashed in yellow plastic bags and at least one marked "medical waste," included some infants who were&...