Toussaint Kluiters / Pool via Reuters Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic sits in a courtroom in The Hague on Wednesday as his trial opens. Mladic, 70, faces 11 overall counts for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Updated at 4:57 a.m.: THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic went on [...]
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Check out CNN affiliate WREG-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, for information on the shootings. (CNN) — Someone who may be posing as a police officer is pulling cars over on Mississippi highways and then shooting drivers dead, authorities said. After two such shootings this month, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public’s help [...]
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.cnn_html_media_utility::before{color:red;content:’>>’;font-size:9px;line-height:12px;padding-right:1px} .cnnstrylccimg640{margin:0 27px 14px 0} .captionText{filter:alpha(opacity=100);opacity:1} .cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:visited,.cnn_html_slideshow_media_caption a:link,.captionText a,.captionText a:visited,.captiontext a:link{color:outline:medium none} .cnnVerticalGalleryPhoto{margin:0 auto;padding-right:68px;width:270px} ]]> French President Francois Hollande pays his respects after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Tuesday, May 15. A special police unit sniper stands guard on a [...]
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Architect Frank Gehry has proposed changes to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, following strong criticism from surviving family members and questions from top GOP House lawmakers. The family had initially complained that the design focused too strongly on the late president’s humble Kansas roots, as opposed to his accomplishments as a president and [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Boehner lays down markers on year-end ‘fiscal cliff’
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) presaged another developing moment of brinksmanship on taxes and spending, vowing that House Republicans would vote to extend expiring tax cuts before the election, and insist on further cuts in spending to accompany another increase in the debt limit. Boehner said that the House would vote this fall “before [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Chinese Activist ‘Cannot Be Silenced’
The Chinese dissident whose activism against his country’s practice of forced abortion and sterilization made him a wanted man declared Tuesday by telephone before a Capitol Hill hearing that he “cannot be silent” in the face of “evils” against women and children. Chen Guangcheng also described the persecution his family has suffered, and the diplomatic crisis [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Physician: Zimmerman had broken nose, black eye
The day after George Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a family physician wrote in a report obtained by ABC News that Zimmerman had a broken nose, “a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury.” The three-page medical report is part of the discovery — [...]
Read the rest of this entry »First Alzheimer’s prevention study launched
CHICAGO — The U.S. government launched an ambitious push to develop new treatments for Alzheimer’s on Tuesday with a first prevention study of high-risk patients and tests on an insulin nasal spray that has shown promise in earlier studies. The trials, funded by grants of $16 million and $7.9 million respectively, are part of a national [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mom kills her 4 children, self at Florida home
Check out CNN affiliate WKMG-TV in Orlando for updates on the fatal shootings. (CNN) — A Florida mother shot her four children early Tuesday morning before turning the gun on herself at her home in Port St. John, police said. A neighbor heard shots at 4:50 a.m. and then responded to a knock at the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Murdoch insider charged in phone hacking probe
London (CNN) — British prosecutors said Tuesday they would charge Rebekah Brooks with trying to obstruct a police investigation into phone hacking at newspapers owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Brooks, a former editor of the News of the World, is accused of plotting to remove boxes of documents from News International offices and hide [...]
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