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Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement. Yanqing Ye, 29, a Chinese national, was charged in an indictment today with one count each...

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Security at the Sports Complex during the Democratic National Convention next month will include “no-scale fencing” to enclose the Wells Fargo Center and Xfinity Live!, the Secret Service special agent in charge said in an interview Thursday... More than 20 subcommittees are examining, among other things, infrastructure, transportation, security, and crowd management, and involve dozens of government agencies... Philly DNC 'Will Be Contested Convention' ... could not speculate about the size of protests in the area surrounding the Wells Fargo Center. FDR Park, which is across South Broad Street from the arena, has been designated a protest zone by the...

Nothing resembling a female is safe from the Muslim horde.

Police are investigating an armed home invasion, and a crash that followed in South Fargo. Lt. Joel Vettel says they are looking for two people of interest: Luke Goodridge and Isaac Nyemah. Police say Goodridge, Nyemah, and the others involved, are the same people who have been caught up in a street crime war for the past several days. Officers say following a home invasion, several people left in a car. People in the home jumped into another car and gave chase. That led up to the crash. At least two people involved in the home invasion jumped out of...

15 Photos From the Tahrir Square Protests You’ll Never See In Legacy Media. http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/07/15-photos-from-tahrir-square-protests.html Curiously, a massive wave of anti-Obama sentiment in Egypt has been utterly ignored by vintage media, even though the protests may be the largest in all of human history. [More at link]

A German company used a futuristic laser weapon to cut through a half-inch thick steel girder from 2/3 of a mile away. But don’t try running away just yet: Dusseldorf-based Rheinmetall Group also reported that its new 50kW high-energy weapon technology can successfully detect and engage targets. The company announced its 2012 year-end operational testing at the Ochsenboden Proving Groud (EZO) in Switzerland, where it successfully overcame tough environmental conditions including snow, ice, rain and blinding sunlight to neutralize targets. Since 2011, the company has increased the power of its lasers five-fold, producing twice the laser output within the same...

After 16 years of playing Lt. Anita Van Buren on NBC’s ‘Law & Order,’ S. Epatha Merkerson is turning in her badge.

<p>The youngest member of TV’s favorite fictitious family “The Brady Bunch” nearly blew chunks during a Denver radio appearance Thursday morning.</p>

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia should not face any problem in its plan to develop civilian nuclear energy because it has met its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the chief of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday. As part of efforts to diversify its energy sources, Indonesia is planning to build nuclear plant power plants on the Muria Peninsula on the northern coast of Central Java province. "I don't see that there would be any political impediment to Indonesia acquiring the technology needed for nuclear power," Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said during...

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Video footage has emerged showing George Galloway shaking hands with Saddam Hussein's son Uday Hussein — an alleged rapist, torturer and convicted murderer. ... In the video, Galloway is seen to greet Uday, shaking his hand twice and calling him "Excellency." ... Galloway also orders watching journalists not to publish parts of their conversation. Finally, according to the paper, he taunts the U.S. and vows to stick with Uday "until the end". The video was shot for an Iraqi TV station and was smuggled out of Iraq before the regime fell... Uday was shot dead by US soldiers in 2003....

A Houston-based rapper said his decision to call himself the "Arabic Assassin" was meant to stir up a bit of controversy in the music business. The stage persona — along with some incendiary lyrics in one of his songs — also helped get Bassam Khalaf fired this month from his job as a baggage screener at Bush Intercontinental Airport. "I thought it was kind of ridiculous. What does my music have to do with my job?" Khalaf said Thursday. He lost his job July 7, about six months after he joined the Transportation Security Administration as a baggage screener. "He...

We'll kill hostages, one by one, rebels vow By Paul McGeough, Chief Herald Correspondent in Baghdad April 12, 2004 - 1:21AM Anguish ... Ayako Inoue, left, weeps with other relatives of the three Japanese hostages, below. Photo: Reuters/Eriko Sugito One of the three Japanese being held hostage in Iraq will be executed at an unspecified time today - and the other two within 12 hours - unless Tokyo agrees to new demands, says an Iraqi go-between who claims to have seen them alive yesterday.False hopes for the safety of the three were raised earlier when word spread from the Middle...

After a brawl with police and a boisterous student protest against the war in Iraq that led to 33 arrests, a schoolgirl in a black chador approached a police cordon. "I want to go home," she demanded. It had been a sometimes exhilarating and sometimes frightening day of defiance in a warm, autumn sun. The confrontations and the emotion had exhausted her. She received an icy silence. The cordon did not open. Her friend, another Muslim girl, said: "We'll get into trouble." The police paid them no attention. With incredulity and then outrage, the girls realised the situation.It was 3.19pm...

Teacher shuns swine stories in class that might offend Islamic kidsThe head teacher at a school in Britain is defending her decision to ban books that contain stories about pigs because they might offend Muslim children. According to a report in the London Daily Express, teacher Barbara Harris has removed the books from classes for those under 7 years old at Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School in Batley, West Yorkshire. Sixty percent of the students are of Pakistani or Indian origin, reports the Express, 99 percent of whom are Muslim. "Recently, the head teacher has been aware of...

Mrs Baria Skaf, mother of the gang ringleader sentenced to 55 years' jail for three pack rapes, has been banned from visiting her son for two years.Her son, Bilal "Bill" Skaf, who turned 21 yesterday in an isolation cell at "Super-Max", the State's highest security jail at Goulburn, has received a one-month ban on visitors.The bans were imposed by the Department of Corrective Services after Mrs Skaf was caught trying to smuggle two letters out of the prison.During a family visit last weekend, she was captured on sophisticated security cameras concealing the letters - dated August 30 and September 7...

It sounds too strange to be true. Warren Beeby, the group editorial manager of News Ltd, publisher of The Australian newspaper, says he can barely believe it himself. But yesterday he confirmed that one of the paper's better-known columnists, the ABC broadcaster Phillip Adams, is under investigation for alleged racial vilification by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. Adams is such a vigorous opponent of racism, discrimination and all manner of oppression that the Prime Minister once famously urged the ABC to find a "right-wing Phillip Adams" to balance its political output. But Mr Beeby said an American ...

Up to 7000 heavily armed Muslim fighters are preparing to attack more than 60,000 Christian villagers on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, United Nations and church officials say. About 1000 fighters from the Java-based Laskar Jihad group entered Sepe village near the lake town of Tentena on Saturday night, killing five people and destroying most of the houses, a church source said yesterday. Now thousands of Christian villagers in the Tentena area fear an imminent attack from the Jihad fighters, who have been trained by foreigners from Afghanistan and Pakistan. A church group that travelled last week to the area, where sectarian ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush plans to form a task force to stop would-be terrorists from entering the United States and arrest those already here, the White House said on Monday.Bush was to announce the task force during a meeting of his Homeland Security Council, the first such meeting he has presided over since forming the council after the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks on New York and the Pentagon (news - web sites).U.S. immigration policy has been criticized since the attacks because some of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the country legally or were here on expired visas.White House ...