Hurricane Sandy sent floodwater gushing into New York’s five boroughs, submerging cars, tunnels and the subway system and plunging skyscrapers and neighborhoods into darkness. The storm shaped up to be among the worst in city history, rivaling the blizzards of 1888 and 1947. Two deaths were reported in Queens and more than 670,000 were without [...]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Lance Armstrong stepped down as chairman of his Livestrong cancer-fighting charity and Nike severed ties with him as fallout from the doping scandal swirling around the famed cyclist escalated Wednesday. Armstrong announced his move at the charity in an early-morning statement. Within minutes, Nike said that it would end its relationship [...]
Austrian pilot and sky diver Felix Baumgartner set a world record Sunday for the highest parachute jump, safely landing after leaping from a capsule carried by a helium balloon to an altitude of 128,100 feet, some 24 miles up. He also broke the sound barrier during his free fall, as he had hoped, reaching a [...]
The Soviet Union secretly planned to leave 100 nuclear weapons on Cuba after the end of the crisis but were so scared by Fidel Castro’s instability that they made up a law to retrieve them. Documents released by the US National Security Archive disclose how close Cuba came in 1962 to becoming Latin America’s first [...]
President Hugo Chávez has retained power in Venezuela, after defeating opponent Henrique Capriles, by a comfortable victory of 900,000 votes. Chávez, the longest serving president in Latin America, has been re-elected for the third time. His new term will be from 2013 to 2019. He was first elected to power in 1998. Shortly after his [...]
Cuba would undoubtedly suffer a devastating economic punch if Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, whose subsidies to Havana are estimated at more than $4 billion a year, loses his reelection bid Sunday. But a Chávez defeat has a long-shot chance of carrying a thin silver lining, some analysts say. It could boost Cubans who favor deeper [...]
On May 22nd- 2008 Cuban State Security officials, local police, and several other government authorities surrounded Pastor Omar Gudes’ house, knocked on the door and then entered to arrest him. He was paraded out in handcuffs with much fanfare and surrounded by enough police, security and armed guards that one would have thought that an [...]
Intelligence sources believe the deadly attack on an American consulate in Libya was directly linked to al Qaeda, with a former Guantanamo inmate involved, according to US media reports. Fox News said officials had revealed the connection on the same day a top Obama administration official called the assault in Benghazi a “terrorist attack”, after [...]
In 1958, a senior from my high school named Robert Thurman was expelled for trying to join Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba. I traveled to Cuba this August to see for myself what the legacy of that revolution really is. Any visitor to Cuba can see that the Castro Revolution is a failure. As a [...]
Oswaldo Paya’s family has reported that he and the other three passengers in the car were forced off the road deliberately and that this led to the deaths of the two Cuban passengers riding in the vehicle. There is a long track record that demonstrates that the regime practices this type of tactic with individuals [...]
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — South Florida companies active in Cuba are worried about a measure in Congress that would ban them from U.S. Defense Department contracts if they keep up business with the island. Anti-communist hard-liner Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, inserted that tiny provision into a massive defense spending bill that passed the House in [...]
BILLY CAMERON, a colourful local pol in Galway, never expected to set off an international incident. “It’s ruined my life over here for a while,” he says cheerfully of his Yank foes. Things got ugly after Cameron, a Labour Party member of Galway City Council, proposed putting up a memorial to honour that famous son [...]
This week, Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels filed suit in the Geauga County, Ohio Court of Common Pleas to petition the Ohio Secretary of State to remove Barack Hussein Obama’s name from the ballot based on alleged inconsistencies with his social security number. If the controversy surrounding Obama’s social security number (SSN) is new or [...]
Under the wary eye of Cuba’s Communist authorities, opposition bloggers on Thursday kicked off a three-day event promoting Internet use to discuss the island’s problems. The “CLICK Festival” is aimed at educating Cubans on new information technologies and the use of online social networks on an island where Internet connectivity is sharply limited, organizers say. [...]
H.A.A.R.P. – The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications [...]
A House panel voted Wednesday in favor of holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a move that inflamed partisan rancor on Capitol Hill and sets up the possibility of legal action against the attorney general himself. Holder has not yet been formally held in contempt of Congress. The full House would still need [...]
IN LAST week’s leader on India’s economy we referred to the government as acting with Brezhnev-grade complacency. That was probably a bit too harsh. In the last few days I’ve listened to two energetic government bigwigs—officials rather than politicians—talk about the slowdown and what to do about it. Here’s what they had to say. The [...]
A review of Britain’s record on human rights was branded ‘ludicrous’ last night – for including criticisms from the governments of Iran, Russia and Cuba. The United Nations report also contains scathing assessments of the UK from other countries notorious for their wholesale denial of human rights – among them Pakistan, Belarus and the Sudan. [...]
The liberal media are finally looking into the birth certificate issue — Mitt Romney’s, that is. Reuters extensively investigated the presumptive Republican nominee’s background, and concluded that he was born on U.S. soil and qualifies as a “natural born citizen.” This follows the press corps’ relentless examination of Mr. Romney’s past: his record at Bain [...]
Facing a slew of economic bad news, President Obama said Friday the private sector is doing just fine but blamed Republicans for not helping out-of-work teachers and other public-sector employees – an analysis pounced on by GOP leaders. “The private sector is doing fine,” the president said during a White House press conference. “Where we’re [...]