Enlarge image i Fresh maple syrup in two maple leaf-shaped bottles, with other bottles behind. Police officials have arrested three men who allegedly siphoned the sweet treat from 16,000 storage barrels stored in a Quebec warehouse. iStockphoto.com Fresh maple syrup in two maple leaf-shaped bottles, with other bottles behind. Police officials have arrested three men
Enlarge image i This photo provided by the family shows Jessica Rekos. Rekos, 6, who was killed Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn., AP This photo provided by the family shows Jessica Rekos. Rekos, 6, who was killed Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn., AP Two more funerals were
An independent panel has sharply criticized the State Department for inadequate security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on the day of an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. In an unclassified summary of the report released tonight, the Accountability Review Board cites several key mistakes. It said that security
Enlarge image i Sen. Daniel Inouye (left), who died at 88 Monday, served as the chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair in 1986. Chris Wilkins/AFP/Getty Images Sen. Daniel Inouye (left), who died at 88 Monday, served as the chairman of the Senate committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair in 1986. Chris Wilkins/AFP/Getty Images
On Wall Street, investors appear to be listening closely to the growing talk in Washington about curbing assault weapons. Share prices for gun makers were down when the stock market closed Monday, on an otherwise positive trading day. The SP 500 Index, a broad measure of stock performance, was up nearly 1.2 percent, but shares
Enlarge image i Mourners leave the Honan funeral home after attending the funeral of Jack Pinto, 6, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, in Newtown, Conn. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Mourners leave the Honan funeral home after attending the funeral of Jack Pinto, 6, one of the victims of the Sandy
Enlarge image i State Police officers pass a makeshift memorial as they respond to a threatening phone call that caused the evacuation of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown during Sunday services. Mario Tama/Getty Images State Police officers pass a makeshift memorial as they respond to a threatening phone call that caused
Enlarge image i In a photograph taken by Shannon Hicks, police and teachers lead children away from Sandy Hook Elementary. Hicks is a volunteer firefighter, in addition to being an associate editor at the local paper. Shannon Hicks/AP In a photograph taken by Shannon Hicks, police and teachers lead children away from Sandy Hook Elementary.
Schools around the country are reviewing security plans, adding extra law enforcement patrols and readying counselors for the first day of classes since a shooting massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut. Districts from Alabama to Arizona and Florida to New England were asking local law enforcement to increase patrols on Monday. School officials in
Mixed Drinks Huguette Roe Consider the lowly soda can. After the pop, the fizz, the guzzle, it’s dumped into a recycling bin and chucked curbside with the rest of the trash. But just as it has reached a sort of existential low point — empty, forgotten, discarded — voila! The can transforms into a thing
The tragedy in Newtown, Conn., will surely spur pollsters to ask Americans again about guns, gun ownership, gun laws and the Second Amendment. If recent experience is a good guide, public opinion may not shift too much. A gun shop in Glendale, Calif. Gabriel Bouys /AFP/Getty Images Pew Research Center writes that: The murders of
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier this month in Dublin. Kevin Lamarque /AFP/Getty Images Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who earlier this week canceled a trip to Morocco and the Middle East because she was ill with a stomach virus, is at home recovering from a concussion she suffered in a fall, her