Former WNBA MVP and two-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi tested positive for a banned stimulant while playing professionally in Turkey. The Turkish basketball federation released a statement Friday on the results that found the drug modafinil, used to enhance alertness and keep the user awake. “The urine sample taken from Diana Taurasi as a...
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6 feared dead in crash of U.S. National Guard chopper off Puerto Rico
Four U.S. National Guard officials and two prosecutors are believed to be dead after the helicopter they were riding crashed off an island in Puerto Rico on Monday. The fuselage of the helicopter, a UH-72, had been found north of Vieques Island but the search for those aboard continued Tuesday, according to the Coast...
Hillary Clinton Reaches Out To Azerbaijan President For Damage Control
The United States on Thursday continued damage control operations in diplomatic relations globally, the latest being with Azerbaijan as WikiLeaks churned out cables comparing Azerbaijan President to a mafia boss of “The Godfather” films. Addressing journalists at the regular State Department briefing, spokesman PJ Crowley confirmed that the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
Interpol: al-Qaeda planning attacks on U.S., Europe
In a fresh warning, Interpol has said that al-Qaeda operatives are planning attacks against American and European targets during the holiday season. “We received information yesterday from the Interpol office in Baghdad about possible threats, especially in the U.S. and Europe, due to orders given to Al-Qaeda cells by Al-Qaeda commanders,” the global police...
Illinois mayor found dead in home
The mayor of Springfield, Illinois, was found dead at home Tuesday morning. The cause of death has not yet been released. Police went to the home of Tim Davlin, 53, after receiving a 911 call around 8:54 a.m. and found the mayor there lifeless. The police did not announce the cause of death and...
Missing Virginia girl found safe In California, abductor arrested
Police found missing 12-year-old Salem girl Britanny Smith unharmed and her alleged abductor in San Francisco on Sunday ending an Amber Alert issued in Virginia a week ago. A police tipster saw Smith and Scott Easley, 22, her mother’s boyfriend, at a convenience store in San Francisco. Responding police found the two near a...
Somali Prime Minister takes his first trip abroad since nomination
Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, the Prime Minister of the transitional federal government of Somalia, flew to Djibouti for his first official visit abroad since he was nominated in October. Somali government spokesman Abdi Hajji Goobdoon, told reporters that the Premier Mohammed was accompanied by a delegation that made the trip after an official letter of...
F-16′s Scrambled To Intercept Private Plane, Part Of The White House Evacuated
There were a few tense moments on Monday in the U.S. capital as two F-16 fighters were scrambled to intercept a private plane according to sources in the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). NORAD scrambled two F-16 from Andrew Air Base and intercepted “a Cessna 182 in the vicinity of the National Capitol...
Obama Says New Airport Security Procedures Necessary
President Barack Obama said this weekend that he understands people’s frustrations over new airport security measures, but the screenings are needed to adapt to growing terror threats. The Transportation Security Administration is now subjecting passengers to either thorough frisking, or “pat-downs,” or going through scanning machines that emit low levels of radiation and reveal...
Aircraft Carrier Escort, Spam For Stranded Cruise Ship Guests
Thousands of passengers on a damaged Carnival cruise ship being towed to Mexico have received supplies from a Navy aircraft carrier, including the military staple Spam. The Navy began delivering 35 pallets of supplies Tuesday to passengers from the USS Ronald Reagan, which suspended its training missions to escort the cruise ship towards shore....