“He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week.”
“Graham, a retired colonel, has in the past supported the ability to indefinitely detain those captured under the current AUMF and has opposed limits on the president’s ability to conduct war.”
“McKinney said he doesn’t hold any grudges about the years he was in jail. God, he said, took all of the anger out of his heart.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/us/lawrence-mckinney-exoneration-trnd/index.html
“Police have made no arrests in connection to the killing, footage of which was captured on CCTV and quickly made its way onto social media.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/politician-shot-dead-after-promising-fight-violent-crime-968529
“The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.”
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/fire-breaks-ballot-warehouse-baghdad-180610144257131.html
“TSA said it had no indication the woman was in distress during the security check.”
“Trump approved expanded military operations against al-Shabab in early 2017, leading to an increase in U.S. military personnel to more than 500 and the launch of dozens of drone strikes. ”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/09/1-us-soldier-killed-4-wounded-in-somalia-attack.html
“Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works. Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems.”
“Instead of shaming disabled consumers who rely on straws, let’s hold producers of plastic financially responsible for their waste.”
Read more: https://psmag.com/environment/banning-straws-wont-save-the-oceans
“Their relocation rewards years of work by Florida officials to entice the investment crowd with promises of warm weather and zero state income taxes.”