Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Leaders of the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic communities continued sharp criticisms Friday against a Supreme Court decision that upholds a tough state law against illegal immigration. They say the ruling on Thursday will lead to discrimination against Hispanic people. The Arizona [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will not be running for president in 2012. The reality show/real estate tycoon finally ended speculation as to his White House ambitions. Trump said that if he would have run, he probably would have [...]

Jim Keller – AHN Sports Reporter Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN Sports) – Major League Baseball on Wednesday has taken over operations of the Los Angeles Dodgers from financially troubled owner Frank McCourt. McCourt bought the club from News Corp. on Jan. 29, 2004, and the club reached the postseason in four of his [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Manila, Philippines (AHN) – Philippine Airlines continued to face labor issues on Friday even as it assured passengers that it was ready for the worst — the first strike by the carrier’s biggest union in more than a decade. “We apologize to our passengers for whatever anxiety and inconvenience [...]

ProPublica Staff Washington, DC, United States (ProPublica) – by Marian Wang Several top military officials have split from Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the wake of a violent government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. In announcing their support for the demonstrators on Monday, the generals dealt a blow to Saleh’s power base, but will their [...]

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Medford, MA, United States (AHN) – Tufts University is ending a decades-long tradition of running naked through campus after the fall semester due to safety issues. In an op-ed column published Monday in the student newspaper, university president Lawrence Bacow said Tufts would no longer continue its Naked Quad [...]

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Lubbock, TX, United States (AHN) – FBI agents arrested Wednesday a Saudi student in Texas for allegedly plotting terror attacks in the United States, including on the Dallas home of former president George W. Bush in the name of jihad. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, had been planning the [...]

AHN News Staff Tunis, Tunisia (AHN) – Weeks after the popular people uprising ousted Tunisian strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power and forced him to flee to Riyadh with his family, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi’s interim government on Sunday formally asked Saudi Arabia to extradite the deposed man. “The government acted following a [...]

Edward Lewis – AHN Sports Reporter Daytona Beach, FL, United States (AHN Sports) – On Friday NASCAR and others addressed the media in Daytona International Speedway’s Infield Media Center, announcing that it will switch from carburetor to fuel injection engines in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for the 2012 season. NASCAR currently runs engines with [...]

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