Spy’s parents search for son after Cuba-US deal
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ When convicted spy Rolando Sarraff Trujillo failed to call home from prison, his parents went to the jail to see if their son had fallen ill. Officials…
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Digital dilemma: How will US respond to Sony hack?
By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH The detective work blaming North Korea for the Sony hacker break-in appears so far to be largely circumstantial, The Associated Press has learned. The…
Denzel Washington Blacklisted? Leaked Sony Email Targets Black Actors
Denzel Washington has now been added to the list of actors and actresses targeted with racist comments and claims in leaked emails from Sony executives. Radar Online revealed on Wednesday…
Tsarnaev lawyer says he plans to seek trial delay
By DENISE LAVOIE Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court Thursday for the first time since he was arraigned in July 2013, and his lawyer said the defense…
Feds sue NYC over Rikers Island jail violence
By JAKE PEARSON and TOM HAYS Federal prosecutors sued New York City on Thursday to speed the pace of reforms to address what a Justice Department investigation found was a…
France fines 13 firms $1.2 bln for price-fixing
By JAMEY KEATEN Penalizing a dirty business involving cleaning products, French regulators fined 13 consumer-products makers about 950 million euros ($1.2 billion) for price fixing on goods like shampoos, detergents…
Self-defense fails in Montana man’s murder trial
By LISA BAUMANN Just days before he killed a 17-year-old German exchange student, Markus Kaarma told hairstylists he had been waiting up to shoot some kids who were burglarizing homes.…
Lawyer defends acts of Nigeria soldiers sentenced to death
By BASHIR ADIGUN and MICHELLE FAUL A human rights lawyer says 54 soldiers have been sentenced to death because they embarrassed Nigeria’s military by demanding weapons to fight Islamic extremists,…