13yo New Mexico compound victim says he was trained to wage jihad – court papers

The chief suspect in the case of the New Mexico compound, where 11 children were kept in slum-like conditions, sought to build an army of child recruits to carry out jihad, according to an FBI interview with one of the victims. Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 37, who was arrested by the FBI and charged with child […]

Child abuse charges dismissed in New Mexico desert compound case

Eddie Moore/Reuters Two judges cited procedural errors by prosecutors and dismissed child abuse charges against five people from a desert compound where a toddler’s body was found. The judges, in separate decisions, dismissed the child abuse charges on grounds that a preliminary hearing had not taken place within 10 days after they were filed when […]

Japanese police arrest 2 men suspected of shooting up a pro-North Korean compound

REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japanese police arrested two men on Friday after several bullets were fired at the Tokyo headquarters of a group linked to North Korea. Japan has strict gun laws and shootings, almost always gang-related, are extremely rare. About 500,000 ethnic Koreans live in Japan, many of them descended from the two million Koreans brought […]

WHO Report: Data on marijuana compound does “not justify” DEA scheduling

Enlarge / COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. – August 05, 2014: Janea Cox director of the Flowering H.O.P.E. Foundation, with her daughter Haleigh’s, who was diagnosed with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, looks at the plants that make Haleigh’s Hope, a cannabis oil high in cannabidiol, or CBD, that is helping control her seizures. (credit: Getty | Joe Amon) The […]

Blasts heard inside Afghan state TV compound in Jalalabad after gunmen attack

Published time: 17 May, 2017 07:11 Edited time: 17 May, 2017 07:18 Update : 6 wounded taken to Hospital from Afghan National Radio Television #RTA office attacked in #Jalalabad city. — Pajhwok Afghan News (@pajhwok) May 17, 2017 لومړني معلومات : درې بريدګر جلال اباد کې د ملي راډيو تلويزيون ودانۍ ته ننوتلي، دوو يې […]

Stanford researchers use a compound in fertilizer to create inexpensive battery

Ever the incubator for innovative ideas, Stanford University announced this week its engineers successfully developed a new type of low-cost battery capable of storing renewable energy. A breakthrough, no doubt, but what is particularly impressive is that the engineers used urea — a compound typically found in fertilizer or the urine of mammals — to […]