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THE FBI's failure to see clear warning signs in the Fort Hood case revives the ques tion of whether it's up to the task of countering terrorism. Before his murderous rampage, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was exchanging e-mails with a radical Yemen-base...
A white powder that was found at Ellis Island and caused a brief evacuation at the immigration landmark in New York Harbor has been deemed harmless. Jersey City, N.J., fire official Armando Roman says a hazardous-materials team responded to a call about the powder at the island's immigration museum on Saturday afternoon. The museum was evacuated for about 90 minutes, but visitors didn't have to ...
Associated Press - November 14, 2009 9:15 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - A white powder that was found at Ellis Island and caused a brief evacuation at the immigration landmark in New York Harbor has...
Two "suspicious" letters containing white powere were discovered at different UN consulates today -- a day after diplomatic missions in New York discovered similar letters, authorities said. The latest letter was found at the United Kingdom's UN cons...
John Allen Muhammad was executed on Tuesday for masterminding and carrying out with his teenage accomplice the 2002 sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrified the Washington, D.C., region a year after the September 11 and the deadly anthrax attacks.
A letter containing a suspicious white powder has turned up at a sixth United Nations consulate -- this time at the Russian Mission on the Upper East Side, authorities said. Police responded to a 911 call about the letter at 3:45 a.m. yesterday. ...
What was initially said to be the seventh report of a powder-laced letter sent to foreign officials in New York City turned out to be a false alarm, CBS 2 has learned. Police were called to 708 Third Avenue, which houses the Consulate General Of The Republic Of Belarus, Wednesday morning, but said there was no suspicious package for investigation. Envelopes containing a non-toxic white powder ...
Russia became the sixth U.N. mission in New York to receive a letter containing white powder, police said on Wednesday after an envelope was found at the diplomatic post on Manhattan's Upper East Side overnight.
Appalled by the Bush administration’s foreign policy, and feeling let down by a compliant news media, many young Americans turned to Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show for some critical insight into what had gone so terribly wrong with their country, as well as some light relief from the horror of it all.
by Michael Finger The final year of the 1980s was a momentous one: The Berlin Wall fell, ending the Cold War; the Exxon Valdez spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Alaska; and there was the uprising in Tiananmen Square. Twenty years ago! In technology, the first GPS satellite was launched; Gameboy was invented; Microsoft Office was released; and DNA evidence was ruled ...
A fifth foreign mission to the United Nations has received an envelope with a suspicious white powder inside, police say.
New York - The Russian mission to the United Nations on Wednesday received an envelope containing a white powder, which was determined to be harmless after an initial test, news reports said. Similar envelopes containing the suspicious powder were di...
Police are investigating letters containing white powder that were sent to five U.N. missions in New York City, but diplomats from the affected countries said on Tuesday that the material was harmless.
There was another anthrax scare on Tuesday. Another letter -- containing white powder -- arrived at the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations. The latest incident brings to five the number of letters that have now been found at foreign missions and consulates near the UN. The terrifying letter campaign that first frightened New Yorkers just Monday night is eerily similar to the 2001 ...
Photograph of Monday's response by Jonathan Weiss After three foreign offices received envelopes containing a suspicious substance on Monday night, three more received similar envelopes yesterday. First, the German Mission to the U.N. reported receiving an envelope, and later in the day, the British and Russian Missions also received envelopes. The NYPD expects more letters to be found in the ...
Preliminary police examinations of white powder sent in letters to four U.N. missions in New York City showed the material was harmless, diplomats from the affected countries said on Tuesday.