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Police in Four nations have held about 200 people, for Trans-Atlantic Drug trafficing. Involving Major Mexican drug cartels,Importing and Distributing drugs from Latin America to the US. 60 Million dollars in cash seized. Suspects Arrested in Mexico and Guatemala. Arrests came after a 15 month investigation. The US and Italian charges cover various crimes, including trafficking of cocaine and marijuana, kidnap charges, attempted murder, conspiracy to use a firearm in a violent crime and conspiracy to kill and kidnap in a foreign country.

This is an interesting topic. The drug trade world is getting out of control a lot of people are being killed and hurt for no reason someone needs to step up and stop these things from happening before its to late

In a 'long shot' theory, physicists propose that the world's largest atom smasher could be used as a time machine to send a special kind of matter backward in time.

Could you even imagine the possibility of controlling time. Everything on earth evolves around time, from planning events, keeping an agenda, and even when to eat. The fact is time is like money, we spend it quick with much regret. I wouldn't know what to do if this became actually real, because life is precious a train thats never stopping. Controlling time would be a disgrace towards life and its purposes.

The researchers said "the method could be used to send messages to the past or the future." I think that they're right this is a long shot. Its just to much of a long shot, I don't think this will be perfected anytime soon.

A soldier gets 24 years behind bars for killing Afghan civilians in a "sport" or "game". Also 5 other soldiers are getting 22 or more years for participating.

I understand that there are certain people who need to be killed, the people who are doing harm to the civilians are in the wrong. The soldiers are there to kill the bad people, not to make a sick game out of killing innocent people.

James has a really good point, here. What if there is a bit more to the story? Was it truly a completely innocent a civilian? (Mmm... maybe I should go in and actually read the story. The conversation surrounding the article definitely makes it more interesting and makes me want to take a further look into it. Nice job, students!

Another PA parent opts his child out of PSSA standardized testing as a measure of civil disobedience.  Word of caution:  This can very much hurt a school's Adequate Yearly Progress and ultimately the school may suffer.  But, what if this movement spread amongst parents?  What then?  Would the government take over the school?  Change is hard.

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There was a subway bombing that left 12 people dead. It also left more than 200 wounded in Belarus. The interior minister says it was a radio-controlled bomb that was used. The bomb was placed under a bench at a busy subway station. He also says, police have created composite pictures of two male suspects using testimony from witnesses. Another official says several people have been detained in the investigation. It's not clear if those people are considered suspects. Earlier, the domestic security agency in the former Soviet nation said it had identified the likely attacker.

That is horrible. Twelve innocent people died for most likely no reason.

The United States, with help from Sweden, is trying to get North Korea to release the man on humanitarian grounds. Sweden is representing the US because of the poor diplomatic relations with North Korea. The Swedes visited the man and are asking for regular visits. Because of recent detainments by the North Koreans, relationships are continuing to get worse. Citizens have recently been released in 2009 and 2010. Conditions continue to get worse because of concerns of nuclear development in North Korea also. The US and South Korea joined forces on drills despite the norths warnings. Without Sweden, chances of getting the man back would be slim.

There are researcher that think this New Shale gas is bad for our global warming, greenhouse effects, and also the climate. This is happen in Cornell University in Ithaca, US. They found this Shale gas underground and there are some on the walls they building by the school. Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon, and is comparable over 100 years.

If we used this it might make our economy better.

I feel like it would help us in the future. I do not think it will be bad i think its good for us in the long run.

Arizona, 9 year old Tristin Saghin saves his 2 year-old sister's life using CPR. The baby went missing and apparently fell into the family's pool. While the rest of the family panicked, Tristin stayed calm, cool, and collective.

At-least someone pays attention in health class. Its a good thing that schools are still teaching this but there's actually people in the government who wont to get ride of education like this.

The FDA approved a drug used to help slow the spreading of cancer cells in stage 4 melanoma patients. The drug will soon be used for stage 3 patients. The drug has been used to increase the lifespan of users by at least 4 months.

Mmm... interesting. Thirteen years is an awful long time to wait for the release of a new drug attempting to combat such a devastating disease.

The budget can be cut up to $40 billion.

$40 Billion is a lot of money to just take away. They should atleast take it away in increments so people can adjust to it easier.

I don't get why they are cutting budgets from the school's all around the world. I think that is so silly because people put us though school to learn and now there thanking them from us. So i guess they what us to be stupid and not get good jobs. A lot of people will lose jobs if this happens.

Saratoga High School in New York will have breathalyzer for each student attending prom next month. It will be at the front door to ensure that every student will attend prom in a sober fashion. Their principal says the new guideline is in response to growing concerns about student safety and alcohol use. Mostly all of the students of this school said its a good idea and they like this idea. They think that students should be checked for this since its not legal for anyone underage to do no matter the circumstances.

This is a good idea because there are probably many students who would show up to prom under the influence of alcohol.

It makes sense to use precautions like this. Every year there's students who drink before prom and usually get arrested. Doing this might affect how many people actualy do drink before prom. Also it will cut down on the dangers of drunk driving.

Jeremy Morlock was sentenced to 24 years in jail Wednesday. He pleaded guilty for killing three Afghan civilians. Morlock was thought to be the leader of the five soldiers who killed the unarmed men.

Helicopters are being used for air support in japan to douse the nuclear reactors to keep the cool so they do not meltdown.

I think that this is good. Japan is already in a horrible situation with the Tsunami and if they had a nuclear meltdown, it would just cause even more damage then what's going on now.

Hopefully they can put it out so that there is no nuclear pollution on top of all of the devastation.

16 year old girl from Arizona left voluntarily with a 19 year old man to Utah.

I think parents should keep track of their children more and this wont happend.

Nice job on looking at both sides, here, gang!

Powerful video of earthquake and tsunami in Japan

I think its awesome to see how countries come together at a time like this. This should make the United States feel better about themselves also. By helping others, it will give us a good impact and if we are in need of help someone will be there for us.

Absolutely, Kristen. It is very devastating, too, and unfortunate. Most people don't realize that it is in every country's best interest to do so. In this day and age, our economies are much more interdependent and like throwing a pebble into the pond, there will be some ripple effects that will surface within our own economy as a result of the Japanese events.

Police are looking for three people who took a donation jar from julf gas filled with $20

This is sad. That money could have been used to make a difference in someone sick and now it's being used for something not nearly important. People are just so inconsiderate.

That is just a shame how people could go and steal things, and to go and steal money that is for someone with cancer yet. I dont think some people have feelings. It is just wrong and uncaring to do something like that.

The Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its' prison population by 30,000 people. Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the prison system is failing to deliver minimal care to the prisoners. Also, suicide rates in the prison are 80% higher than the average for inmates nationwide. There are now more than 140,000 inmates in the prison system now.

The United States was once one of the most rapidly growing countries in the world, but that is not the case now. Slow population growth can be a good thing, as the U.S. is in a recession the way it is, and more people can make it worse, especially with jobs currently being difficult to find. From the 90's to 2000, the U.S. was growing at 13.2%, and from 2000 to 2010, it has grown 9.7%. 43% of the growth is Hispanics, which shows how rapidly we our adapting to a diverse community. Studies show that the U.S. is becoming a middle aged country, which will most likely harm us if we don't get out of the recession, because that will be even more money being drained once all the middle aged people are able to collect Social Security.

Obama was the first U.S president to speak from westminster Hall the american and the European influence remain as dominant as ever.