39-year-old Devyani Khobragade, India's deputy consul general, was arrested after dropping off her daughter at school last Thursday and detained in New York on visa fraud charges, CNN reported. Khobragade was held in a cell with other females and strip-searched following her arrest, the U.S. Marshals Service said. She was soon freed on a $250,000 bond after pleading not guilty to the charges
72-year-old Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted of first-degree murder for killing babies that were born alive in his clinic, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running a 'poll mill' out of the same clinic, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as reported by CNN. Gosnell was found guilty in May.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon declared Monday that the "government's once-secret collection of domestic phone records is unconstitutional, setting up likely appeals and further challenges to the data mining, revealed by classified leaker Edward Snowden. Leon said the NSA's collection of metadata (or "phone records of the time and numbers called without any disclosure of content") violated privacy records
Dustin Friedland, the 30-year-old New Jersey who was fatally shot inside the parking lot of The Mall at Short Hills, reportedly refused to give up his keys to the assailants because he knew his wife was in the car. "He knew his wife was in there and he refused," the source told the paper. Friedland's wife Jamie was not wounded after seein her husband killed by a carjacker
