The quick evolution of technology has changed the way Americans do almost everything, including how law enforcement combats crime, and consequently, how criminals elude law enforcement.
Those two concepts converged during the G-20 summit, when state police arrested two New York men for using Twitter to inform protesters in Pittsburgh about the movements of local officers.
What now for the US in Afghanistan? Does the Obama Administration drop the other shoe and commit us to a second decade of war? Or will it somehow pull up short of the precipice? All of sudden, there’s doubt and the war’s opponents can see a hundred glints of hope – tops among them polls showing Americans now thinking that sending still more troops to Afghanistan because nineteen men hijacked four airplanes eight years earlier might not be the most logical course of action.
ISTANBUL - A student journalist threw a shoe at IMF Director Dominique
Strauss-Kahn on Thursday and ran toward the stage shouting "IMF get
out!" as the finance official answered questions at a university in
Istanbul.
The white sports shoe missed the IMF chief and landed on the
platform. Strauss-Kahn moved to the side but was not in any danger of
being hit, and a security guard rushed to protect him.
Right-wing and antigovernment activists — a few of them wielding not only signs but even loaded firearms — have organized some of the angry protests surrounding the health care debate. But in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, a different sort of health care protest took place, led by left-leaning groups who accused insurers of greed and called for nationwide, single-payer health insurance.
Honduras' interim leaders have suspended key civil liberties, empowering police and soldiers to break up "unauthorised" public meetings, arrest people without warrants and restrict the news media.
The announcement came just hours after deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya called on supporters to stage mass marches today marking the three-month anniversary of the June 28 coup that ousted him. Mr Zelaya described the marches as "the final offensive" against the interim government.
PITTSBURGH - Protesters smashed shop windows and threw rocks at police on Thursday as police used pepper gas and batons to disperse marches against capitalism at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.
Protesters wore bandannas and goggles and held aloft a large black sign declaring "No hope in capitalism" and another saying "Kick Capitalism While It Is Down."
One sign simply said "I'm mad as hell."
BERKELEY - Several thousand people are packed into UC's Sproul Plaza to protest furloughs, layoffs and tuition increases, one of the largest gatherings there in years.
"You are wonderful to be supporting our cause. We support you too," a custodian told the crowd. He said he had been laid off last week.
The protest began early today with union picket lines at two entrances to the campus. Similar protests were expected on other campuses throughout the state.
A carefully drilled security operation swung into action in Pittsburgh today as police sealed off the centre of the so-called steel city to insulate global leaders from potentially rowdy protests surrounding a contentious G20 heads of government summit.
The
United States and European Union are bracing for a contentious G20
summit amid differences over the economic slowdown, bankers' pay and
climate change.
Washington is likely to be confronted by EU demands for new
restrictions on the multimillion dollar bonuses in the financial
industries of the G20, whose economies comprise about 80 per cent of
all world trade.
PHILADELPHIA - Located across from an indoor skateboarding park in a Northeast Philadelphia outlet mall, the Army Experience Center includes a computer lab that showcases careers as well as the kind of interactive simulators that are irresistible to its target market: the teenage boys recruiters hope will fuel the Army of the future.
