Acting on orders from the U.S. Department of Education, a S.W.A.T. team broke into a California home Tuesday at 6 a.m. and reportedly roughed up a man - all because of his estranged wife's defaulted student loans. She wasn't there.
Yet, Kenneth Wright of the city of Stockton was grabbed by the neck by handcuffed before he and his three young children were put in a police car as the officers searched his house, he told ABC News10. He said he was in his underwear the whole time.
"They busted down my door for this. It wasn't even me," Wright told the local news station. "All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door."
Local police were reportedly not involved in the incident.
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The US has conducted another unauthorized drone airstrike in Pakistan's troubled northwest, leaving at least 23 people dead and several others wounded.
The US has conducted another unauthorized drone airstrike in Pakistan's troubled northwest, leaving at least 23 people dead and several others wounded.
Meanwhile, Pakistani medics reported that the missiles fired by US drones have contaminated the environment with unknown chemicals.
They say most of those wounded by US drone airstrikes in North Waziristan are hospitalized for various skin, eye and respiratory diseases caused by chemicals.
The US often carries out such attacks on Pakistan's tribal regions, claiming that the militants are their target.
But locals say civilians are the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned US strikes.
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Embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner attempts to come clean about Twitter pic scandal on Monday.
Embattled Rep. Anthony Weiner attempts to come clean about Twitter pic scandal on Monday.
Conservative activist Andrew Breitbart of the website BigGovernment.com tells NBC's Today show he considers the image "an insurance policy" against attacks from Weiner, who on Monday admitted the crotch photo was of him. The married Weiner also acknowledged he had engaged in inappropriate contact with six women over three years through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and occasionally over the phone.
Breitbart told NBC Tuesday that if Weiner wants to open himself to further investigation, "there are a lot of women" who could come forward. Asked directly if he considered the purported unpublicized picture an insurance policy, Breitbart replied, "I don't like to think of it that way."
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Mark Kennedy didn't seem any different from the other activists – but in fact he was an undercover policeman.
Mark Kennedy didn't seem any different from the other activists – but in fact he was an undercover policeman.
Prosecutors have been accused of suppressing surveillance tapes covertly recorded by the undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, the Guardian can reveal.
Leaked documents indicate the Crown Prosecution Service may also have misled the public and even the courts when the trial of six environmental campaigners accused of planning to break into Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire collapsed earlier this year.
Two days before it was due to commence, the trial was abandoned by the CPS, which told the court that "previously unavailable information" had come to light that undermined its case against the activists.
However, the supposedly new evidence - the Kennedy tapes - had in fact been in the possession of the CPS for more than a year.
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Adolf Hitler with fellow army dispatch runners in 1916. He was still working for the army in 1919 at the time of the 'Gemlich letter'.
Adolf Hitler with fellow army dispatch runners in 1916. He was still working for the army in 1919 at the time of the 'Gemlich letter'.
A document understood to be the only existing written statement by Adolf Hitler in which he set out his belief in a systematic removal of Jews from society has been acquired by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles.
The four-page letter, typewritten on faded brown paper and bearing Hitler's signature, was shown in public for the first time in New York, in what is likely to be seen as a key artefact in the historical record of the Holocaust. It will go on display at the centre's Tolerance Museum in Los Angeles.
The centre's founder, Rabbi Marvin Hier, said it was one of the most important documents of the period, showing the development of Hitler's antisemitic thought, and proved he had in mind a governmental solution to the so-called "Jewish Question". "This is the most important item we have in an archive of more than 50,000 objects," Hier said, adding that it would be used to educate future generations and to counter Holocaust denial.
Though Hitler alluded to his plans to exterminate Jewish people in speeches and indirectly through his closest henchmen, his thoughts on the subject can be found nowhere else committed to paper.
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William Hague said the UN security council had a 'responsibility to speak out' against President Assad's crackdown. What he neglected to mention is that fact that Assad is up against an organised and ARMED insurrection.
William Hague said the UN security council had a 'responsibility to speak out' against President Assad's crackdown. What he neglected to mention is that fact that Assad is up against an organised and ARMED insurrection.
Britain is to push for a UN security council resolution condemning a crackdown on anti-government protesters in Syria.
The foreign secretary, William Hague, told parliament that the security council had a "responsibility to speak out" and warned of new European Union sanctions unless demands were met.
Hague said diplomats were circulating a draft resolution to secure the necessary support from the nine council members.
He said the proposals would bring action taken against Syria in line with measures imposed on other countries in the region facing political upheaval. However, they fell short of the no-fly zone mandated against Libya under a resolution passed earlier this year that launched a Nato bombing campaign against Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
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Barack Obama, appearing at the White House with Angela Merkel, played down the prospect of a double-dip recession.
Barack Obama, appearing at the White House with Angela Merkel, played down the prospect of a double-dip recession.
The bounce in the polls that Obama received after the death of Osama bin Laden in early May has disappeared. The new poll shows public unhappiness with the slow pace of recovery from recession.
Romney's jump to parity with the president is remarkable given that, until now, there has not been much enthusiasm even among Republicans for him.
Only last Thursday did he formally declare that he will be seeking the party's nomination to take on Obama.
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A Libyan 'rebel' fires a machine gun at Gaddafi forces in an area west of Misrata. Nato, for obvious reasons, denies issuing formal red lines to the rebels.
A Libyan 'rebel' fires a machine gun at Gaddafi forces in an area west of Misrata. Nato, for obvious reasons, denies issuing formal red lines to the rebels.
Tension between Libyan rebels and Nato commanders is growing over the military tactics being used to put pressure on Colonel Gaddafi's forces.
Rebel leaders in Misrata say they are being urged not to launch further pushes against regime troops to the east of the city, and claim they have been told not to cross certain "red lines", even though they feel prepared for battle.
The frustration on the ground has been heightened by their belief that Gaddafi's troops are demoralised and depleted after nearly three months of conflict.
While coalition officials insist they have not issued any direct orders not to attack, they concede they are worried about civilians being caught up in further chaotic fighting, and do not want rebel troops being accidentally hit in bombing raids by Nato warplanes. These continued on Monday and Tuesday, when Tripoli experienced what were perhaps the heaviest daylight bombardments by Nato since the air strikes began in March.
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Aisha Gaddafi with supporters of her father in Tripoli in March.
Aisha Gaddafi with supporters of her father in Tripoli in March.
The daughter of Muammar Gaddafi has launched a lawsuit for murder following the death in April of four members of her family during a Nato air strike.
Legal papers were submitted to the prosecutor's office in Brussels on Tuesday by the French lawyer for Aisha Gaddafi.
During the bombing raid on 30 April the Libyan leader's son Saif el-Arab, 29, as well as three of his grandchildren were killed. Ms Gaddafi's four-month-old daughter Mastoura was one of those who died.
She argues the coalition forces that carried out the attack are guilty of "war crimes", stating the air strike did not target a command and control post held by troops loyal to her father, but was a private residence in Tripoli where members of his family were living.
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Michelle Bachmann
Michelle Bachmann
Well, so be it. A quarter of Republicans questioned profess to believe that ACORN is definitely planning to steal the 2012 election while another 32 percent think it might be. These numbers are admittedly lower than the 52 percent who, in 2009, went on record accusing ACORN of having stolen the election for Obama, but this should strike a person with normal mental faculties as a mite surprising, given that the organization no longer exists. Similarly, a recent poll of Republicans found that 48 percent of those questioned believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Again, this is almost double the 28 percent who believed it in February, but it is still rather low, given that Hawaii released the president's long-form birth certificate to satisfy exactly this group of noisy idiots.
