Nearly 1,000 refugees were detained on a remote island in December before being towed out to sea and abandoned with little food or water, rights group says.
AP - In 1973, a young terrorist named Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary entered the United States and quickly began plotting an audacious attack in New York City.
AP - Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush's unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.
AP - Thousands of people holding signs and waving American flags cheered wildly Saturday to honor the pilot who safely landed a US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River. He told them he and his crew were only doing their jobs.
Two months before dying, a Virginia woman confessed to killing two women nearly 42 years ago, authorities say. Sharron Diane Crawford Smith told police she shot her ice-cream parlor co-workers because they had taunted her for being a lesbian. "I was just pushed so far," Smith told police. Smith said she acted alone. But Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams said questions about the case remain.
North Carolina State University women's basketball coach Kay Yow, who won more than 700 games in nearly four decades of coaching, died Saturday after a long struggle with breast cancer, the university said.
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