High Court Blocks Alabama Immigration Crackdown Provision

Alabama provision had not been enforced, pending court appeals

2013-04-29

Bill Mears CNN Supreme Court Producer

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court has refused to review Alabama's controversial immigration crackdown law, and whether a provision over harboring illegal immigrants conflicts with broad federal authority. Read the complete article

Weather Delays Delivery of Top Section of 1 World Trade Center

Once they are installed, they will make building tallest in Western Hemisphere

2013-04-29

Morgan Winsor CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Weather has delayed the scheduled Monday morning delivery of the final two sections of a 408-foot spire to the top of One World Trade Center, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Read the complete article

How Hezbollah Trained an Operative to Spy on Israeli Tourists

Europeans debate whether Hezbollah is a terrorist group

2013-04-28

by Sebastian Rotella of the investigative reporting nonprofit Pro Publica

Hezbollah trained spies to monitor Israeli tourists. Most governments in Europe have a markedly different view of Hezbollah than Israel or the United States, which see it as a terrorist organization pure and simple. Only the Netherlands agrees with that assessment. Britain has designated Hezbollah’s military wing as a terror organization, but not the political leadership. Read the complete article

What Went Wrong in West, Texas — and Where Were the Regulators?

Plant had not been inspected since 1985

2013-04-26

by Theodoric Meyer of the investigative reporting nonprofit ProPublica

A week after a blast at a Texas fertilizer plant killed at least 15 people and hurt more than 200, what do we know about why the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company plant exploded? Read the complete article

West Texas Blast: Memorial Service Held For 12 First-Responder Heroes

Fathers sons and brothers remembered in moving ceremony of hundreds

2013-04-26

By Steve Almasy CNN

Families of the 12 first responders killed in the West Texas fertilizer plant explosion joined president Obama and hundreds of mourners at a memorial service Thursday Read the complete article

VIDEO: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Is Moved To A Federal Prison Hospital

Boston bombing suspect told police he and brother discussed plan to bomb New York

2013-04-26

By Ben Brumfield and Greg Botelho CNN

Surviving suspect in the Boston bombing moved to a prisons hospital. Police say Tsarnaev brothers discussed setting off bomb in New York. Read the complete article

VIDEO: South Korea Pulls Out of Shared Industrial Zone After North Snubs Talks

Senior officials in North continue to threaten nuclear strikes

2013-04-26

By Jethro Mullen and K.J. Kwon CNN

Troubled relations between North and South Korea suffered a fresh blow Friday after Seoul decided to withdraw all its remaining citizens from the manufacturing zone jointly operated by the two. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Attacks on Sunni Mosques In Iraq Kill 4 and Injure 46

Tension between sunnis and shiites continues to stoke conflict

2013-04-26

By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Joe Sterling CNN

Bombs blew up at and near Sunni mosques Iraq amid Friday prayers. Several explosions occurred in Baghdad, the nation's capital. One explosive planted at the al-Qubeisi mosque in southwestern Baghdad killed four worshipers and wounded 46, police said. Read the complete article

VIDEO: Israel Urges United States to Respond to Syria on Chemical Weapon Use

U.S. defense secretary says evidence suggests that sarin has been used in Syria

2013-04-26

With evidence that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria on a small scale, the United States should take the lead in crafting a response, an Israeli official said Friday. Read the complete article

Boston: Why Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is Charged With Using Weapons of Mass Destruction

Suspect in the bombings has been moved to prison

2013-04-26

The charge against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for allegedly using low-grade explosives housed in pressure cookers to bomb the Boston Marathon is “using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.” Read the complete article