U.S. Marine Corps Maj. George Anikow, right, who was killed in 2012, is seen in an image from his family's Facebook page. (Facebook) Two fugitives in hiding for more than five years after being freed following the 2012 stabbing death of a U.S. Marine in the Philippines, have been re-apprehended. The suspects, identified as Crispin dela Paz and Galicano Datu III, have been charged in the death of Maj. George Anikow, a 41-year-old married father of three who had moved to the Philippines with his family from New Jersey after serving in Afghanistan, the New York Daily News reported. The suspects, identified as Crispin dela Paz and Galicano Datu III, initially avoided prison time because a judge, who was later dismissed for “oppressive disregard” of evidence, had downgraded the original murder charge and granted the suspects probation, the Daily News reported, citing local reports. After the judge’s removal, new arrest warrants were issued, but it took years … [Read more...] about Two arrested in 2012 stabbing death of US Marine in Philippines
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Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Advertisement Upshot Supported by The New Health Care Funding is harder to find in general, and the current approach favors low-risk research and proposals by older scientists and white men. ByAaron E. Carroll June 18, 2018 The medical research grant system in the United States, run through the National Institutes of Health, is intended to fund work that spurs innovation and fosters research careers. In many ways, it may be failing. It has been getting harder for researchers to obtain grant support. A study published in 2015 in JAMA showed that from 2004 to 2012, research funding in the United States increased only 0.8 percent year to year. I23 percent of its purchasing power in a Because the money available for research doesn’t go as far as it used to, it now takes longer for scientists to get funding. The average researcher with an … [Read more...] about Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas
US drone strike kills Pakistan Taliban leader
The deadly USA drone strike coincided with a unscheduled brief trip to Kabul by Gen Qamar where he met the Afghan leadership and commanders of the Operation Resolute Support Mission.Fazlullah, who escaped a major counter-terror operation carried out by the Pakistani military in the northwestern Swat Valley in 2009, had since regrouped his fighters in the border region of Afghanistan, according to security officials.Along with masterminding the attack on Yousafzai, Fazlullah was the leader of the TTP when they claimed responsibility for the bloodiest terrorist attack in Pakistan's history, a December 2014 attack on a military school in Peshawar, which left 141 schoolchildren under the age of 11 dead.Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks during an interview with Reuters at a local hotel in Islamabad on March 30.TTP leader Mullah Fazlullah. However, he noted that the cease-fire applies to the Afghan Taliban and "does not include US counterterrorism efforts" against a local … [Read more...] about US drone strike kills Pakistan Taliban leader
UN rights chief: US policy on migrant kids ‘unconscionable’
close Video U.N. Secretary General's statement on migrant children Stephane Dujarric reads the statement from the Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres about the treatment of refugee and migrant children. The U.N. human rights chief is urging the Trump administration to end new policies separating migrant children from their parents after entering the United States from Mexico. Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein cited an observation by the president of the American Association of Pediatrics that locking the children up separately from their parents constituted “government-sanctioned child abuse,” The New York Times reported. “The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince, said. He spoke at Monday’s opening of a regular Human Rights Council session, his last before his term ends in August. The greater U.N. also expressed similar … [Read more...] about UN rights chief: US policy on migrant kids ‘unconscionable’
US soccer star’s ‘My Other Team Is Mexico’ ad kicks up outrage
Landon Donovan speaks at a news conference in Carson, Calif., Aug. 28, 2013. (Associated Press) An American soccer star is attracting criticism – from fans and former teammates alike -- for appearing in a Wells Fargo ad that encourages U.S. fans to root for Mexico in the World Cup. Landon Donovan, a 36-year-old native Californian who starred on the U.S. men’s national team and played for Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy and other clubs, is shown in Twitter posts on behalf of the bank, holding a scarf that reads, “My Other Team is Mexico.” “USA fans, our team may not be in Russia, but our neighbors to the south are. So join me and their proud #sponsor @WellsFargo to cheer on our other team, Mexico,” Donovan writes in the Twitter message. The tournament is here! USA fans, our team may not be in Russia, but our neighbors to the south are. So join me and their proud #sponsor @WellsFargo to cheer on our other team, Mexico … [Read more...] about US soccer star’s ‘My Other Team Is Mexico’ ad kicks up outrage