The Senate narrowly voted on Tuesday a bill to advance a temporary extension of unemployment benefits to over one million people without jobs. The measure was sponsored by Nevada Republican Dean Heller and Rhode Island Democrat Jack Reed.
50-year-old Colleen R. LaRose, an American woman-born woman who calls herself Jihad Jane, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for a failed al-Qaeda-linked plot to kill a Swedish artist who had h depicted the head of Mohammad on a dog
35-year-old Brooklyn resident Barry Baldwin has been charged with hate crimes in connection with seven "knockout" assaults, including attacks on two elderly women and a mother who was working with her daughter, the NYPD said on Saturday
A "polar vortex" of dense and frigid air descended upon much of the U.S. early Monday, which dropped temperatures in some parts of the country to near-record lows. The weather conditions prompted wind chill warnings from Montana to Alabama,
