HUNTINGTON BEACH – It was like Christmas Day for Jim Spray. he giggled with glee as he tore into brown paper bags as if they were presents.
These bags, however, were filled with jars of his medical marijuana and other paraphernalia that had been stored for nearly three years at the city’s police department.
A court order [...]
White House officials had hoped to speed the approval of Erroll Southers to revive confidence in an agency that has been leaderless for months and in the spotlight since the attempted bombing of U.S. airliner on Christmas Day exposed intelligence and security lapses.
Southers’s nomination had been held up by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) because of [...]
This year instead of waking up to two very excited little girls with stockings full of presents, I prised myself out of my winter sleeping bag and stepped out into a bitterly cold Christmas day in Helmand Province Afghanistan.
I have been in the reserves now for just over eight years and have spent lots of [...]
HONOLULU – President Barack Obama laid blame Saturday on an al-Qaida affiliate for a Christmas Day terrorist plot that has led to a review of how intelligence agencies failed to prevent the botched bombing aboard a Detroit-bound airliner.
In his most direct public language to date, the president described the path through Yemen of 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian [...]
Amazon sold more electronic books than physical books on Christmas Day, due to the popularity of the Kindle e-reader, the online retailer reported. It was the first time e-books had led in sales.
In addition, the Kindle has become the most gifted item ever on Amazon, according to the company, which did not release sales numbers.
Amazon’s [...]
by Alana Semuels and mark Silva
HONOLULU — President Barack Obama got a briefing this morning from his homeland security advisor, John Brennan, about the government’s terrorism watchlist — a review that the president ordered after the attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound airlner on Christmas Day, the first day of his family’s holiday vacation in Hawaii.
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KABUL (AP) two bomb blasts in volatile regions of Afghanistan have killed eight Americans and five Canadians. The Americans, all civilians, were killed by a suicide bomber at a military base near the border with Pakistan. The Canadians, four troops and a reporter, were killed during a patrol in the south.
WASHINGTON (AP) Dutch officials [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — it was a memorable and merry Christmas in Hollywood as moviegoers shattered box-office records, responding in droves to a diverse array of high-profile releases over the holiday weekend.
The estimated $278 million in weekend box-office revenue broke the previous record of roughly $253 million set in July 2008, the weekend [...]
It???s no secret that new media is taking the hammer to old media, but this was the year the fight came straight to my Christmas tree. first, my mom — one of the most avid book purchasers I know — got a Kindle. then, even the traditional media gifts under the tree turned out to [...]
Today is the last Sunday for the Year 2010 and it is also the Feast of the Holy Family and today Gospel teaches us a very important event in the family of our Lord Jesus Christ. You can read it in Luke 2:41-52.
41 each year Jesus’s parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of the [...]
