11.11.13
As the Philippines faced a long, grim path to recovery in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, the storm plowed into northeastern Vietnam early Monday, packing powerful winds and forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate.Philippine authorities warned that the typhoon may have k**ed thousands there, leaving behind a trail of devastation on a scale they'd never seen before.
11-12-13
Bill Flowers' dog Liberty showed up at his house last week with a human leg -- from a complete set of toes to almost the hip.Then he buried the leg in the back yard of his home on the Nisqually Indian Reservation in western Washington.
"I'm 93 years old," he said. "I didn't want to have to go to the pen for something I didn't do."
11-13-13
The best photographs work on multiple levels, capturing what's happening on the surface while transcending two-dimensions to invite viewers to dig into whatever's pictured.That's literally the idea behind Nick Veasey's x-ray photographs. He uses five x-ray machines to take probing photos that provide an intimate, even eerie look into everything from robots to firearms.
11-14-13
As cadaver crews collected more bodies off of streets and from underneath rubble in the Philippines Friday, the national disaster agency raised the d**h toll in the wake Typhoon Haiyan to 3,621.
The number of those injured stood at 12,165, state news agency PNA reported, after the storm ripped up a group of the nation's islands with winds more than three times stronger than those of Hurricane Katrina. At least 1,140 individuals are officially missing.The fright-filled scramble to survive the storm's fury, to keep heads above the wall of ocean waves it pushed in, faded away with Typhoon Haiyan's winds.
11-15-13
Convicted Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger displayed no emotion, his arms by his side, as he was sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus five years as architect of a criminal enterprise that, in the words of a federal judge, committed "unfathomable" acts that terrorized a city.The two-day sentencing hearing was a final chapter in the life of one of the country's most notorious criminals and fugitives. A federal jury found Bulger, 84, guilty in August of 31 counts, including racketeering, extortion, money laundering, drug dealing and weapons possession. The jury held Bulger responsible for 11 k**ings from 1973 through 1985.