Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, a top general in charge of the U.S. Air Force's arsenal of nuclear ballistic missiles have been relieved of his command due to loss of trust.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Thursday was sentenced to 28 years in prison after being convicted in March of two dozen federal charges, which included racketeering, extortion, and the filing of false tax returns. Prosecutors said that he used the mayor's office to enrich himself and associates
The Nobel Prize committee honored the United Nations-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a small organization which dispatched experts to Syria after a gas attack killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus in August.