WASHINGTON – The two-gun Californian shot to death trying to attack the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and marijuana abuse, along with a grab bag of anti-government conspiracy theories, law enforcement officials said Friday.
The parents of John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., warned California authorities last month that their son was missing [...]
Life looks back to normal for Jaycee Dugard as she speaks on TV for the first time since being released from 18 years in captivity.
“Hi. I’m Jaycee,” the 29-year-old Dugard says to the camera. “I want to thank you for your support and I’m doing well … It’s been a long haul, but I’m getting [...]
Job losses were mild in February despite extreme snowstorms in much of the country, according to a government report released Friday, suggesting that while the labor market remains weak it is no longer getting worse.
Employers cut 36,000 net jobs, the Labor Department said, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.7 percent. Economists had expected [...]
(CNN) — Six people were killed when a passenger bus crashed on an Arizona interstate Friday, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said.
The wreck occurred at 5:27 a.m. on Interstate 10 south of Phoenix when the commercial bus rear-ended a car, according to Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves.
The bus veered off the [...]
John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.
If so, that would make the Pentagon shooting the second violent extremist attack on a federal building within the past month. On Feb. 18, Joseph Stack flew a small aircraft [...]
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is questioning whether the conservative “tea party” coalition truly represents a grass-roots movement.
In a broadcast interview, Pelosi calls tea party voters the “astroturf” movement. She says many of those voters have good intentions but that the Republican Party has hijacked the movement for its gain.
The San Francisco Democrat says [...]
Reporting from Seattle – Hawaiian authorities were rushing to evacuate up to 100,000 residents and tourists from low-lying coastal areas Saturday morning as an estimated 3-to-8-foot tsunami raced toward the islands at the speed of a jet plane.
Radio stations were broadcasting civil defense alerts, and sirens sounded in the early-morning hours, well ahead of the [...]
Desiree Rogers, the White House social secretary and a close friend of Michelle and Barack Obama, announced her resignation on Friday in the wake of the furore over the gate-crashing of a state dinner by three uninvited guests.
As the first high-profile casualty of Mr Obama’s tenure, her departure was a personal embarrassment for the president [...]
New York Gov. David A. Paterson, engulfed by an ethics scandal, bowed out of the 2010 governor’s race Friday, a decision that gave relief to Democrats fearful that the embattled leader threatened to cost the party a key governorship and harm other candidates across the U.S. coping with a re-energized Republican Party.
“It has become increasingly [...]
Looming over the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minn., is a grinning portrait of former President George W. Bush, asking “Miss me yet?”
At a time when President Obama’s approval ratings are cratering, the billboard appeared mysteriously, with no one claiming credit for it.
But it has raged virally across the Internet, with a Google [...]
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