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Key witness excused from testifying in U.S. leaks case (Reuters)

Key witness excused from testifying in U.S. leaks case 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - A key witness was excused from testifying in the case against Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning on Sunday after he invoked his right against self-incrimination at a hearing about the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history.[Read more...]

Key witness excused from testifying on U.S. leaks (Reuters)

Key witness excused from testifying on U.S. leaks 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - A key witness was excused from testifying in the case against Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning on Sunday after he invoked his right against self-incrimination at a hearing about the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history.[Read more...]

Blizzard-like conditions to slam Southwest, plains (Reuters)

Blizzard-like conditions to slam Southwest, plains 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - A severe winter storm is expected to hit southwestern U.S. mountains on Sunday afternoon and evening and then move east to dump up to a foot of snow in Kansas, Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, weather forecasters said.[Read more...]

Blizzard-like conditions set to slam Southwest, plains (Reuters)

Blizzard-like conditions set to slam Southwest, plains 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - A severe winter storm is expected to hit southwestern mountains on Sunday afternoon and evening and then move east to dump up to a foot of snow in Kansas, Colorado and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, weather forecasters said.[Read more...]

Fir Real? Christmas Trees in Crisis

Fir Real? Christmas Trees in Crisis

RALEIGH, N.C.—Christmas tree geneticist John Frampton rubs the sprigs of a two-inch seedling, planted two years ago from the seed of a fir cone from the Uludag Mountain region in western Turkey. This Uludag seedling tube is one of thousands in a greenhouse at North Carolina State University, where Mr. Frampton tests DNA and [...]

More than 50 "Occupy" protesters arrested in New York (Reuters)

More than 50 "Occupy" protesters arrested in New York 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - More than 50 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested on Saturday after they tried to climb over a chain-link fence around a church parking lot in a bid to establish a new encampment.[Read more...]

Occupy protesters arrested in New York (Reuters)

Occupy protesters arrested in New York 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters took to New York City’s streets on Saturday in an attempt to establish a new encampment, with scores arrested as they tried to move onto church-owned land.[Read more...]

Witnesses testify in Bradley Manning Wikileaks case (Reuters)

Witnesses testify in Bradley Manning Wikileaks case 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - Bradley Manning, the suspected source of the largest leak of classified U.S. documents in history, spent his 24th birthday in military court on Saturday listening to investigators detail how they pieced together the case against him.[Read more...]

U.S.’s Panetta Meets Libyan Officials

U.S.’s Panetta Meets Libyan Officials

TRIPOLI—U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited Libya on Saturday for meetings with the head of the country’s new government, promising to provide assistance while avoiding dictating a path forward for the country. The visit, the first by an American defense secretary, comes nine months after the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began a [...]

Peru delays former prisoner Berenson’s return to U.S. (Reuters)

Peru delays former prisoner Berenson’s return to U.S. 
    (Reuters)

Reuters - Lori Berenson, a New Yorker who spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons for aiding Marxist insurgents, was prevented by Peru’s interior ministry from making her first trip home since her 1995 arrest, her lawyer said on Saturday.[Read more...]

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