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Army amputee completes air assault school

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 29th

By KRISTIN M. HALLAssociated Press FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Sgt. 1st Class Greg Robinson has become the first amputee to complete Army air assault school, a course so grueling his prosthetic leg broke twice over the 10 days spent rappelling down ropes, navigating obstacle courses and completing

Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 27th

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received

US tries new aerial tools in Caribbean drug fight

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 27th

By BEN FOXAssociated Press ABOARD THE HIGH SPEED VESSEL SWIFT (AP) - Drug smugglers who race across the Caribbean in speedboats will typically jettison their cargo when spotted by surveillance aircraft, hoping any chance of prosecuting them will vanish with the drugs sinking to the bottom of the

Syrian rebels call on world to put words to action

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

By ZEINA KARAM and BASSEM MROUEAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian opposition groups called Friday for international action after the Obama administration said U.S. intelligence indicates President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons. The government likened the accusation to false

Red line: Obama cautious on Syria chemical weapons

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

By JULIE PACE and DONNA CASSATAAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Proceeding cautiously, President Barack Obama insisted on Friday that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would change his "calculus" about U.S. military involvement in the 2-year-old civil war - but said too little was known about

Authorities say bomb suspects planned NYC attack

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Armed with a pressure-cooker explosive and five pipe bombs, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing made a spur-of-the-moment decision last week to give the Big Apple a taste of their mayhem, New York officials say. The

Draining cash, Egypt on $30 billion search for aid

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 26th

By AYA BATRAWYAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) - During a meeting in a Black Sea resort city, Egypt's president and members of his government turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked for a sizable loan, according to a Putin aide. Egypt's Mohammed Morsi appealed to Moscow and Cairo

Legal issues surround Boston suspect's questioning

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 25th

By MARK SHERMANAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The hospital-room questioning of the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is generating concern about whether he should have been interrogated without first being told of his constitutional rights to silence and a lawyer - and,

'Red line' _ US says Syria used chemical weapons

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 25th

By ROBERT BURNS and JULIE PACEAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. intelligence has concluded with "varying degrees of confidence," that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons in its fierce civil war, the White House and other top administration officials said Thursday. However,

Miranda warning, then silence from bombing suspect

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 25th

By PETE YOST, LARA JAKES and RODRIQUE NGOWIAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: he'd just been read his constitutional rights. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immediately stopped talking