From an office on the Brooklyn waterfront in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York Police Department officials and a veteran CIA officer built an intelligence-gathering program with an ambitious goal: to map the region’s ethnic communities and dispatch teams of undercover officers to keep tabs on where Muslims shopped, ate and prayed.
The Justice Department is suing to block AT&T’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile, saying the deal would hurt competition and likely raise prices.
Authorities say a teenager has undergone surgery for injuries sustained when she fell 80 to 100 feet from a cliff at a Lake Superior shoreline park in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
So much for that delay. After scrambling to reedit The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills following the sudden suicide of Russell Armstrong, Bravo today officially confirmed the…
As recent news stories explain, the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (SSDI), which gives money to workers who become disabled, will be insolvent in six years. While the causes of this trend are various, a new book suggests that the solution might be simple: Encourage people with disabilities to work, rather than encouraging them not to. The explosion in disability is easy enough to document. Over the last ten years alone, the number of disability recipients has grown by about 50 percent. The average award has grown faster than inflation. Keep reading this post . . .
Exxon Mobil snatched away a major Arctic exploration deal with Russia’s Rosneft from competitors including BP in a sweeping deal that will give Rosneft access to energy projects in the U.S.
A New York amusement park was temporarily shut down after a large-scale altercation erupted between Muslim patrons and park rangers over a disagreement on headgear rule.
The father of the Brooklyn boy who was kidnapped and butchered after he got lost leaving day camp wants the accused killer and his father to pay for the horrendous crime — to the tune of $200 million, the New York Post reports.
We received this interesting insight on the famine in the Horn of Africa from the head of DARA, an organisation that evaluates humanitarian aid operations:SIR – Your article on the situation in the Horn of Africa is sadly correct: in effect the world failed to react to the warning signs that a famine was imminent in the region until images of emaciated children were on our television screens. In February we sent a team to Nairobi to assess the response to the drought in Kenya and the crisis in Somalia for the Humanitarian Response Index. All the representatives from donor governments, the UN and other aid agencies interviewed were concerned that the situation would worsen dramatically if the April seasonal rains did not come.Even back in February there was a daily increase in the number of Somalis seeking access to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia in large part due the severity of the drought, a clear indicator that the problems were getting worse. Clearly, it was not a lack of information that impeded the international community to take early action to prevent loss of lives and minimise suffering. So why did it take so long for the world to react?One of the explanations for the delayed response is the highly politicised nature of the Somali crisis, where many of the different actors—al-Shabaab, the Transitional Federal Government, governments in neighbouring Kenya and …
Meet the new blockbuster: drugs like Pfizer’s Xalkori that treat intractable diseases afflicting small numbers of patients shown by testing to likely benefit from the drug.