North Korea found two American journalists guilty of illegal entry and sentenced them to 12 years of labor, the nation’s official news agency said Monday.
AP - Eager to show action on the ailing economy, President Barack Obama promised Monday to speed federal money into hundreds of public works projects this summer, vowing that 600,000 jobs will be created or saved.
AP - North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor for crossing into its territory, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States.
AP - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed with the Obama administration and refused to review Pentagon policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
For the first time in history, the U.S. Army recognized 350 soldiers held as slaves inside Nazi Germany, calling them "national treasures" who should never be forgotten. "That's why the Army sent me here: to look them in the eye and tell them that," Maj. Gen. Vincent Boles said. One of the survivors had shed few tears since his captivity in 1945. That changed when he was awarded one of the nation's highest medals.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the crash of an Air France jetliner in the Atlantic Ocean last week, Brazil's military announced today. The bodies were found floating about 700 miles off the Brazilian coast. The U.S. Navy is sending two high-tech acoustic devices to listen for emergency beacons on the plane's flight data recorders.
Two U.S. journalists detained in North Korea while covering defectors living along the China-North Korea border have been sentenced to 12 years in labor prisons, the country's state-run media said today. The court sentenced Laura Ling and Euna Lee for the "grave crime they committed against the Korean nation."