Thursday, February 16, 2012

2 ICE agents shot in California; 1 dead

2 ICE agents shot in California; 1 dead


2 ICE agents shot in California; 1 dead

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:57 PM PST

An agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was fatally shot and one was wounded inside the agency's offices in Long Beach, California.

New York Times reporter dies in Syria

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 08:55 PM PST

Anthony Shadid, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting from Iraq, died Thursday while reporting in eastern Syria, apparently of an asthma attack, the New York Times said.

U.N. vote: Al-Assad should step down

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:25 PM PST

The United Nations General Assembly has passed a nonbinding resolution endorsing the Arab League plan for Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down.

Payroll tax cut deal set for final votes

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:46 PM PST

A bipartisan group of congressional negotiators signed off on an agreement Thursday to extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for the rest of the year.

'Underwear bomber' sentenced to life

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:20 PM PST

A Nigerian man who pleaded guilty to trying to bring down a Christmas Day 2009 flight with a bomb hidden in his underwear was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.

Suspected drunk pilot kept off flight

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:10 PM PST

A Chautauqua Airlines pilot was kept off a flight in Omaha, Nebraska, Thursday morning after he failed a blood-alcohol test, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Facebook rolls out 'verified accounts'

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:19 PM PST

Taking a cue from Twitter, Facebook will be rolling out "verified accounts" for its most popular users -- presumably hoping to encourage the Lady Gagas of the world to get active on the site.

Interracial marriage growing

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:34 AM PST

Forty-five years after the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage in the U.S., the rate of marriage across racial and ethnic lines is on the rise, a new study finds.

Drug-releasing chip passes human test

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:33 AM PST

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced today that they have successfully completed the first trial of a drug-releasing microchip in humans.

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