Traditional and social media spheres lit up with conversation after Angelina Jolie announced this week that she underwent a double-mastectomy and reconstruction surgery to preempt the likelihood of breast cancer. In a May 13 Op-Ed for the New York Times, the actress and activist opened up about her decision, saying she wanted to be there for her…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and…
BYU graduate Deborah Kay Jones told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at her confirmation hearing Tuesday that as the newly appointed ambassador to Libya, security would be her first priority. “The ambassador is the principal security officer at a post, and it is the ambassador who has to decide whether to allow people to travel here…
Cleveland prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty for Ariel Castro who is accused of kidnapping and holding three women at his home for a decade, as police reports surface that he inflicted multiple pregnancy terminations through belly-punching and starving his captives. Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty announced Thursday that his office will decide whether to bring aggravated…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The federal government has approved Utah to become the first state to have a dual-model health insurance exchange in which the state and the federal government divide responsibilities. The plan allows Utah to continue to run its existing health insurance marketplace for small businesses, a system that lets employees pick health care plans in an online exchange. The federal government will…
Amid the uproar from religious activists who fear that the Department of Defense will tighten its grip on religious expression in the armed forces, local military members say strict proselyting regulations are nothing new. Conservative pundits from the Christian Post and Fox News have decried the Pentagon’s information session this month with the Military Religious…
CLEVELAND (AP) — Kidnapping and rape charges were filed Wednesday against a man arrested after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home. Homeowner Ariel Castro was charged while his brothers, Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no immediate charges. The men were in custody and couldn’t be reached…
PHOENIX (AP) — Jodi Arias has been convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing and shooting death of her one-time boyfriend in Arizona. Arias was charged in the June 2008 killing of Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home. Authorities say she planned the attack in a jealous rage. Arias initially denied involvement, then…
CLEVELAND (AP) — In the years after his friend’s daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old’s photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting…
BOSTON (AP) — At least two online campaigns aimed to help David Henneberry buy a new boat after his was shot up while a Boston Marathon bombing suspect hid inside. And a handful of drives have cropped up to help the family of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old killed in the attack. Neither recipient had anything to do with…