Circumcision Dispute Lands Mom in Jail
Heather Hironimus refused to cooperate with a court order requiring her to circumcise her 4-year-old son, the result of a year-long legal battle with the boy’s father.
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CANNES WATCH: Scholarships aim to aid Arab women directors
CANNES, France (AP) — A new scholarship program announced at the Cannes Film Festival hopes to help more Arab women break into filmmaking.
Saudi advertises for swordsmen as execution rate soars
Saudi Arabia advertised vacancies for eight executioners Tuesday after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole of 2014. It said that as well as beheadings, the successful candidates would be expected to carry out amputations ordered by the courts under the kingdom’s strict version of Islamic sharia law. Drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by
US: NKorea 'many years' from developing submarine missile
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. military officer says North Korea is “many years” away from being able to launch ballistic missiles from a submarine.
Official: Zimbabwe not need gov't blessing to tour Pakistan
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Zimbabwe cricket players said they weren’t defying their government by coming to Pakistan, because they didn’t need permission.
Bulk domestic surveillance: Where the 2016 candidates stand
The candidates are split on one of the USA Patriot Act’s most controversial provisions.
Court rejects State Dept. plan for release of Clinton emails
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge rejected the State Department’s proposal to release portions of 55,000 pages of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton by next January, saying the agency must instead conduct a “rolling production” of the emails.
Memo: Violence long simmered between rival Texas biker gangs
WACO, Texas (AP) — Texas law enforcement authorities warned weeks ago of growing animosity between rival motorcycle gangs, a feud that erupted into violence this week with a deadly lunchtime shootout between the two groups in a crowded Waco restaurant.
Conductor critically hurt in Philadelphia train derailment sues Amtrak
(Reuters) – A conductor critically injured in last week’s deadly Philadelphia train derailment has filed a lawsuit against Amtrak, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Emilio Fonseca, 33, was taking a restroom break in the first car during his work shift when the passenger train went off the rails, killing eight people, attorney Bruce Nagel said at a news conference. Fonseca suffered a broken neck, back and both shoulders, and was