U.S. President Barack Obama Asks For Use Of Military Force To Combat ISIS
On Wednesday, February 4, United States President Barack Obama formally asked the U.S. Congress to authorize the use of military force against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the terrorist...
View ArticlePopular New York Times Columnist David Carr Dies At Age 58
On Thursday, February 12, long time New York Times media columnist, David Carr, 58, collapsed at the offices of the New York Times and later died. David Carr was the author of one of the legendary...
View ArticleCIA Secretly Purchased and Destroyed Chemical Iraqi Weapons
On Sunday, February 15, it was reported that during the second United States conflict in Iraq, the Central Intelligence Agency repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a single Iraqi seller in...
View ArticleFerry Accident In Bangladesh Leaves 70 Dead
On Sunday, February 22 in Bangladesh, a double decker ferry carrying as many as 140 passengers capsized and killed 70 people. The accident happened on the Padma River about 425 miles northwest of...
View ArticleISIS Kidnaps 90 People In Raids On Syrian Villages
It is being reported that the Islamic State of Syria—most commonly known as ISIS—has kidnapped at least 90 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria. The UK based human rights...
View ArticleAstronomers Discover A Black Hole 420 Times Brighter Than The Sun
On Wednesday, February 25, it was announced that astronomers have discovered a black hole and a quasar 420 trillion times more luminous than our sun. The black hole is located some 12.8 billion light...
View ArticleRussian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov Killed In Moscow
On Friday, February 27, Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed in what Russian authorities are describing as a contract killing. Boris Nemtsov was killed near Red Square just...
View ArticleMicrosoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Discovers Long Lost Japanese Warship
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul Allen has always been fascinated with World War II, and over the past eight years, he has been equally fascinated by discovering lost treasures from the...
View ArticleU.S. Ambassador to South Korea Injured By Knife Wielding Man
Early Thursday morning in Seoul, South Korea, the United States ambassador to South Korea, Mark W. Lippert, was attacked by a man wielding a knife and was stabbed in the face and left arm. The South...
View ArticleThousands March In Alabama To Commemorate The Anniversary Of Bloody Sunday
On Sunday, March 8, Tens of thousands of people marched across a Selma, Alabama bridge to commemorate the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march. Alabama state police said that close to 20,000 people joined the...
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