A nonprofit think tank retracted a widely reported study that linked last year’s closing of hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles to a rise in crime rates in surrounding neighborhoods. Medical marijuana dispensaries with rooms of high-priced marijuana and cash registers brimming with cash are often seen as magnets for crime, a perception deepened by a […]
NYPD Eyed U.S. Citizens in Intel Effort
The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press. Documents obtained describe in specific detail a secret program designed to study everyday life inside Muslim neighborhoods as people immigrated, […]
Spy Games Come to New York for UN General Assembly
When Iran’s president accused the U.S. at the United Nations General Assembly last year of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks, American diplomats were not caught flat-footed by the tirade. Even before President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad finished his incendiary rant, U.S. diplomats marched out of the cavernous U.N. hall in protest and were ready with a written statement […]
Solyndra Leaders Invoke 5th Amendment at Hearing
Top executives from a bankrupt California solar energy company declined to testify before a congressional hearing investigating their half-billion dollar government loan. Solyndra Inc. CEO Brian Harrison and the company’s chief financial officer, Bill Stover, both invoked their Fifth Amendment right to decline to testify to avoid self-incrimination. Solyndra Inc. received a $528 million loan from the […]
Saudi Family in Fla. Part of 9/11?
A news report about a Saudi family that disappeared from their home in Sarasota, Fla., just two weeks before the 9/11 attacks has brought an angry response from the co-chair of a congressional Sept. 11 committee. A former senator from Florida, Bob Graham, who also co-chaired the panel at the time he was senator, says […]
