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MIAMI (Reuters) - Seven people arrested in Miami planned attacks on the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago and other buildings as part of a pledge to al Qaeda to wage war against the United States, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday. An indictment handed down against the men by a grand jury in south Florida said they sought to gain support from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda in order to destroy FBI buildings in the United States. At least one of them also plotted to blow up the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, it said. The men, named as Narseal Batiste,...

For someone running for the president of the U.S. on a politically correct identity politics ticket, it sure doesn't look good when you gratuitously throw out a negative stereotype of anyone. If you're shameless enough, not a problem. But when your own dad calls you out, yes, there is a problem. The blowback is here for Kamala Harris, who in a bid to pander to the pot vote, promoted the scuzzy stereotype of Jamaica as the pothead nation. Much of the attention from her disastrous interview with 'Charlemagne tha God' on a Bay Area radio station rightly went to her strange timeline...

GREECE, N.Y. -- One of three suspects in a triple slaying at an apartment complex near Rochester was charged with first-degree murder Friday, a day after pleading not guilty to helping distribute at least 2,200 pounds of marijuana in western New York. The suspects, all three Jamaican natives, were tracked to a house in Arizona on March 18, nine days after three other Jamaican men were found shot to death in an apartment in the Rochester suburb of Greece.On Friday, Richard Anderson, 45, an illegal immigrant who had twice been deported to his home country, pleaded not guilty at an...

An editorial in a leading British newspaper criticizes that nation's gun-control laws, pointing out that "total" bans on some weapons only help criminals while punishing law-abiding citizens. The London Telegraph column, published Jan. 5, also said the country's violent crime rate was rising and predicted that London's murder rate, which is rising, would overtake New York City's rate, which is falling. "New York has just recorded the lowest murder rate since the 19th century. I'll bet that in the next two years London's murder rate overtakes it," said opinion writer Mark Steyn. Citing a recent U.N. crime survey, Steyn said,...

AN EXCHANGE of gunfire at a new year party that killed two teenage girls and left two others in hospital was sparked by a dispute between criminals, described by police last night as “quite extraordinary in their brutality”. The gunfight erupted during the early hours of yesterday outside a Jamaican hairdresser’s shop in inner-city Birmingham, where black youngsters had gathered to celebrate the arrival of 2003. A group of young women who felt too hot inside the shop went outside for a breath of air. They were standing by the back entrance when they were caught in the crossfire as...

APPROXIMATELY 12,000 Jamaicans living in America have been targeted for deportation by the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS), the Sunday Observer has learnt. Of that number, more than 700 are now in custody and are expected to be sent home soon. "The INS are holding in excess of 700 Jamaicans in custody who are ready to be deported anytime now," security attaché at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, Assistant Commissioner of Police Errol Strong, told the Sunday Observer in a telephone interview last week. Strong, however, could not say exactly when the deportations would be effected, as the Jamaican...