While admitting that he "deserved to be chastised" for his comments about the teenage rape victim who later committed suicide in Montana, District Judge Todd Baugh said he stood by his decision to send Billings Senior High School teacher Stacey Rambold for 30 days
The White House announced it would close two gun sale loopholes through executive authority by subjecting gun purchases by corporations and trusts to background checks, banning almost all re-imports of military surplus firearms to private entities.
David Ross, a former Wellington advisor from New Zealand, pleaded guilty to five charges of false accounting and theft in running a $300 million Ponzi scheme, the country's largest in its history.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that America was confident the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapon attack near Damascus last week. Obama said the use of chemical weapons affected the United States' national interests, raising the specter of whether military strikes on Bashar al-Assad's regime may be imminent
