The Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israel National Parks Authority and the City of David Foundation announced days before the new year that the Pool of Siloam, a biblical site cherished by Christians and Jews, will be open to the public for the first time in 2,000 years in the near future.
Upon hearing the news of Pope Benedict XVI’s death on Saturday morning, I immediately thought of a long road trip I took with my wife 10 years ago, from Alaska to Texas, and a lonely stretch of highway in central Wyoming where, trapped in a car with nothing else to do, I listened to hours and hours of interviews conducted in the ’90s with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man destined to become Pope Benedict XVI.
Trevor Bickford, a 19-year-old man who had been interviewed by the FBI and placed on the agency's terrorist watch list, attacks three police officers with a machete in New York City; incident being investigated as possible terrorist attack.
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights investigates University of California at San Francisco for potentially violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with "Racial Affinity Caucusing Groups."
A judge of the Sacramento Superior Court ruled Friday to block a proposed law in California that would give the state authority to negotiate the wages and working conditions of fast-food workers.
