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Testimony Ends in Conn. Home Invasion Murder Trial
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Sept. 29) -- The testimony got so awful that after the worst of it, the judge told jurors they could hug each other. Testimony in the murder trial of Steven Hayes ended Tuesday with both sides resting. Hayes, 47, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 30, are charged with murder, sexual assault and other charges in the 2007 home invasion that left a mother and her two daughters dead in Cheshire, Conn. The father was the lone survivor. The judge was to hear motions this afternoon, and closing arguments are to begin Friday. The jury, which began hearing the case Sept. 13, is expected to get the case ...
Opinion: Stephen Colbert Brings Down the House
By Dave George - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- Congress is a serious place -- and rightly so! The situation America has found herself in today is as dire as any time in our nation's history. Our economy is a mess, the unemployment rate is at historic highs, American men and women are dying in a two-front war and an international terror threat looms. So why, then, did the House Judiciary committee host a comedy show in the Rayburn Building Friday? Stephen Colbert took his faux-conservative shtick to Capitol Hill today, and I have to say, he brought the House down. I don't mean that in the showbiz sense of having killed on ...
Britain Had No Clue What to Do in Iraq, Colonel Testifies
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- In an admission more befitting of a satirical film, Col. Tim Collins, who led his Royal Irish regiment into Iraq at the outset of the war, told a British inquiry team today that his superiors had "absolutely no idea" what to do after the invasion. "I rather thought that there would be some sort of plan and the government had thought this through, and I was clearly wrong," he said. "It became very apparent to me shortly after crossing the border that the government and many of my superiors had no idea what they were doing." Collins was paid a visit at the army base in Tidworth, ...
Lockerbie Families Raise New Questions Over Bomber
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (Aug. 15) -- Activists and relatives of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing raised new questions Sunday about the medical advice that led to the release on compassionate grounds of the only man ever convicted for the deaths. Doctors claimed Abdel Baset al-Megrahi had only three months to live when he was freed from a Scottish jail last August and allowed to return home to Libya. But one year later, Al-Megrahi, who is being treated for prostate cancer, is still alive. Prof. Karol Sikora, one of the experts who assessed al-Megrahi's health for Libyan authorities, was quoted by ...
3 Key Discrepancies in the Big Celebrity 'Blood Diamond' Testimonies
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- The testimony of British supermodel Naomi Campbell at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor last week has today been directly contradicted by that of two other star witnesses, her former agent, Carole White, and actress Mia Farrow. Who's telling the truth? The distinction is a critical one, as the prosecution's case rests on proving that Taylor was involved with the blood diamond trade in Sierra Leone. If it is found that Campbell knew for certain it was Taylor who had given her diamonds at a charity dinner party 13 years ago, it could sink him. If the ...
Not Just the Alarm: BP Deepwater Horizon Rig Riddled With Tech Glitches Before Explosion
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 23) -- As testimony into the BP oil spill continues on Capitol Hill, more and more facts are emerging that suggest the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of not a single device or person, but rather a long series of human and mechanical failures. Here are the latest pieces of evidence to support that theory: Silent Alarms Perhaps the most damning detail to emerge thus far: The alarms that should have warned BP when methane and other gasses had built up to dangerous levels were in fact set to silent just before the rig blew, ostensibly ...
Graphing the Surge: Petraeus Testimony Slides
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFormer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once famously wondered in a memo to his staff whether the Pentagon had a handle on the proper "metrics" with which to measure success or failure in the war on terror. He would have liked to have had the slides Gen. David Petraeus was armed with for his Congressional testimony this week. The package of graphs and charts paint a clear picture of the security improvements in Iraq over the past year and show that by every measure, the troop surge has been a success.This slide shows the downward trend in civilian deaths since the surge began in earnest in ...
Tame Iraq Hearing for Petraeus, Crocker
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyU.S. Iraq Commander Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker testified before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees today in the latest congressionally mandated update on progress in Iraq since the implementation of the troop surge strategy. The hearings were largely un-confrontational and the atmosphere on Capitol Hill was vastly different from September 2007, the last time the two men appeared before Congress. Petraeus told the lawmakers that progress in Iraq, both political and military, was, "significant but uneven;" and warned that a precipitous ...
Petraeus Testimony Preview
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a reprise of their highly anticipated and well-received Congressional testimony of last September, Iraq commander General David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker will testify before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees today. This will be the second in a series of congressionally mandated updates on progress in Iraq as a result of the troop surge. The conditions on Capitol Hill should be a good deal more welcoming for the two this time, as it is now generally acknowledged that the surge has been successful at reducing the level of violence in Iraq. ...
David Vitter's Miserable Day
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMan, oh man, what a day for La. Senator David Vitter. First, he learned that he may have to take the stand in the D.C. madam trial. That means he may have to get specific as to what he described as the "very serious sin" that he admits committing. But really, after Eliot Spitzer, it's going to have to be pretty damn good to cause much of a stir. Then, after delivering a perfunctory remark to reporters today, Vitter got itchy feet, ducked out of a news conference, and... well, see for yourself. When it rains, it pours. ...
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