Tarpley: US using Korea to make money

Tarpley: US using Korea to make money

North Korea and South Korea exchanged artillery fire yesterday. All the while the United States dollar has strengthened as bad blood between North and South Korea means big business for the US. Investigative journalist Webster Tarpley says the financial district is taking part in a flight to safety moving money in the US treasury, using North Korea as a catalyst to make other nations depend on the US.

UK Students Protest Tuition Fee Hikes Again

UK Students Protest Tuition Fee Hikes Again


Some demonstrators clashed with police in Britain, as students across the country took to the streets for a second day of protests against massive increases in tuition fees. Several injuries and arrests were reported. (Nov. 24)

Police: Fla. Woman Arrested for School Threat

Police: Fla. Woman Arrested for School Threat


Federal investigators arrested and charged a Florida woman with making threats that caused the country's 6th-largest school system to be locked down and a congressman-elect's top aide to step down. (Nov. 24)

Raw Video: Obama Pardons Thanksgiving Turkey

Raw Video: Obama Pardons Thanksgiving Turkey


President Barack Obama has pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Continuing a decades-old White House tradition, Obama issued pardons Wednesday to a gobbler named 'Apple' and its alternate, 'Cider.' (Nov. 24)

Amanda Knox Back to Appeal Her Conviction

Amanda Knox Back to Appeal Her Conviction


Amanda Knox briefly returned to court in Italy on Wednesday for the start of her appeals trial, about a year after the American student was convicted of killing her British roommate in a case that drew global attention. (Nov. 24)

Raw Video: British Students Protest Tuition Hike

Raw Video: British Students Protest Tuition Hike


British students on Wednesday staged another protest against a planned increase in university tuition fees and education budget cuts. Previous protests have turned violent. (Nov. 24)

AP Top Stories 24/11/2010

AP Top Stories 24/11/2010

Here's the latest news for Wednesday, Nov. 24: TSA looks to adapt pat-downs; 2 more killed in North Korean attack; Amanda Knox back in Italian courtroom; Reason for Cambodian stampede.

SKorea Reports Civilian Deaths From Island Clash

SKorea Reports Civilian Deaths From Island Clash

uth Korea said Wednesday it found two bodies in rubble on Yeonpyeong, marking the first civilian casualties from North Korea's artillery attack on the island. (Nov. 24)

Wahlberg and Bale Shed Pounds for 'The Fighter'

Wahlberg and Bale Shed Pounds for 'The Fighter'


Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale talk about boxing biopic 'The Fighter' and reveal how they had to slim down to play welterweight half-brothers Mickey Ward and Dickie Eklund. (Nov. 24)

Thanksgiving Travel Tensions at Airports

Thanksgiving Travel Tensions at Airports

Complaints about invasive airport security procedures and high holiday travel volume could make for a long day at the nation's airports. (Nov. 24)

McCourt's Divorce Set; Dodgers Ownership Pending

McCourt's Divorce Set; Dodgers Ownership Pending


Jamie and Frank McCourt, who are embroiled in a divorce dispute that could decide ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers, are officially single. The divorce was finalized last month, but just made public Tuesday. (Nov. 24)

First Person: 'Animal CSI' Targets Pet Cruelty

First Person: 'Animal CSI' Targets Pet Cruelty


Immensely popular veterinary forensic science seminars, aka 'Animal CSI', teach crime scene processing and preservation of evidence to prosecute crimes against animals, typically abuse, neglect and hoarding situations. (Nov. 24)

Amanda Knox Appeals Murder Conviction

Amanda Knox Appeals Murder Conviction


Amanda Knox returned to court in Italy on Wednesday for the start of her appeals trial, about a year after the American student was convicted of killing her British roommate in a case that drew global attention. (Nov. 24)

Second Blast Inside NZ Mine; 29 Miners Dead

Second Blast Inside NZ Mine; 29 Miners Dead

Police say all 29 workers missing in a New Zealand coal mine are dead after a second explosion Wednesday that no one could have survived. (Nov. 24)

Sarah Palin Kicks Off Book Tour in Phoenix

Sarah Palin Kicks Off Book Tour in Phoenix


veral hundred people lined up Tuesday night to get a copy of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's new book and have her sign it. She kicked off her national book tour at a store in north Phoenix. (Nov. 23)

Raw Video: World's Most Expensive Tequila

Raw Video: World's Most Expensive Tequila


A Mexican distiller unveiled what it hopes will become the world's most expensive tequila in a platinum bottle with more than 4,000 diamonds. Hacienda La Capilla hopes the newest creation will fetch about $3 million. (Nov.24)

Today in History for November 24th

Today in History for November 24th


Highlights of this day in history: Jack Ruby fatally shoots Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; Charles Darwin publishes theory of evolution; Hijacker known as D.B. Cooper parachutes out of plane with ransom money; Queen's Freddie Mercury dies. (Nov. 24)

Jury Finds Man Guilty in Teen Torture Trial

Jury Finds Man Guilty in Teen Torture Trial

A California jury has found a neighbor guilty of torturing and beating a teen who was held captive in a home for more than a year. Jurors convicted Anthony Waiters, 31, of all nine counts he faced. (Nov. 23)

Holocaust Survivor, Teen Who Helped Her Reunited

Holocaust Survivor, Teen Who Helped Her Reunited

A reunion more than six decades in the making. Sara Marmurek was a young woman in a Nazi slave labor camp in Poland. Wladyslaw Misiuna was a teenager who helped her family survive until he was caught and arrested by the Nazis. (Nov. 23)

Idaho, Wash. State Get First Taste of Winter

Idaho, Wash. State Get First Taste of Winter


A ferocious storm barreled into the Rockies on Tuesday, smacking Idaho with below-zero temperatures and several inches of snow. Blowing snow and icy conditions also shut down schools and businesses throughout Washington state. (Nov. 23)

TX Teacher in Student Sex Scandal Pregnant

TX Teacher in Student Sex Scandal Pregnant

A 26-year-old former high school science teacher who was arrested for having sex with one of her students is pregnant, amid speculation that her alleged victim may be the father. (Nov. 23)

Actor Arrested in Mother's Stabbing Death

Actor Arrested in Mother's Stabbing Death


An aspiring actor was taken into custody Tuesday after he was found with a sword in his blood-spattered apartment, his mother stabbed to death in another room, police said. (Nov. 23)

Chief: Suspicious Fire at Home Where 3 Slain

Chief: Suspicious Fire at Home Where 3 Slain


Authorities are investigating what they call a suspicious fire that broke out at a central Ohio home where two women and an 11-year-old boy were stabbed to death before their remains were placed in a tree. (Nov. 23)

Study: AIDS Pill May Ward Off HIV Infection

Study: AIDS Pill May Ward Off HIV Infection


A global study reveals a pill already proven effective to treat HIV can also help prevent the disease. (Nov. 23)

Feds Turn Up Heat on Wall St, Raid 3 Hedge Funds

Feds Turn Up Heat on Wall St, Raid 3 Hedge Funds

Federal investigators have turned up the heat on Wall Street Monday, raiding three hedge funds in what one of the targets called a wide-ranging probe of insider trading. (Nov. 23)

Did a Missing N.C. Teen Fall From a Plane?

Did a Missing N.C. Teen Fall From a Plane?


The father of a N.C. teen whose mutilated body was found on a suburban Boston street says he was struggling with the boy's death amid reports authorities were investigating whether the student might have fallen from an aircraft's wheel well. (Nov. 23)

Aruba: Jawbone Not That of Natalee Holloway

Aruba: Jawbone Not That of Natalee Holloway

A jawbone found on an Aruba beach does not belong to missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, prosecutors in the Dutch Caribbean island said Tuesday. The jawbone is human, though it is unclear who it belongs to. (Nov. 23)

Obama Denounces North Korea Artillery Attack

Obama Denounces North Korea Artillery Attack


President Barack Obama was "outraged" following North Korea's artillery attack against the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. (Nov. 23)

AP Top Stories Obama outraged over Korean attacks; Holiday travel season in full swing; Date and place picked for royal wedding; Josh Hamilton snares AL MVP award.

Here's the latest news for Tuesday, November 23rd: Obama outraged over Korean attacks; Holiday travel season in full swing; Date and place picked for royal wedding; Josh Hamilton snares AL MVP award.

Travel Rush Begins, Pat Downs and All

Travel Rush Begins, Pat Downs and All


Travelers during the busy Thanksgiving Holiday weekend are enduring stepped up security that includes body scans and pat downs, which some say are too intrusive. (Nov. 23)

Search Goes on for Stampede Victims

Search Goes on for Stampede Victims

Rescuers trawled a muddy river Tuesday for more bodies and Cambodia prepared for a day of mourning following a stampede by thousands of festival-goers that left at least 378 dead and hundreds injured. (Nov. 23)

California Rat Rescue: 1,000 Up for Adoption

California Rat Rescue: 1,000 Up for Adoption


About 1,000 rats are awaiting adoption in California after being rescued from a house featured on the A&E reality TV show "Hoarders." (Nov. 23)

Dollar rises while war brewing on Korean Peninsula

Dollar rises while war brewing on Korean Peninsula

Tensions are high on the Korean Peninsula after the North and South exchanged artillery barrages killing two people. Meanwhile, a possible war in the region drove up the value of the US dollar. RT's Contributor Wayne Madsen says that panicking markets are investing in the dollar due to the United State's strong military. And we may find more information about who's really interested in the recent tensions in Korea

Taliban imposter fools NATO

Taliban imposter fools NATO

A man reportedly involved in talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban said he was one of the Taliban's most senior commanders. In reality, he was a lowly shopkeeper from the Pakistan city of Quetta. He allegedly flew to Kabul on a British military aircraft for at least two meetings, with at least one of the meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

US police target journalists

US police target journalists


Most of the mainstream media coverage of the arrest of RT correspondent Kaelyn Forde has focused on what happened, rather than why or how it happened. Many media members are targeted by police, not being distinguished from any of the activists in favor of repressing free speech. Peter Hart from Fairness and Accuracy Reporting believes the police have embraced that the media is part of the problem.

Are Americans prepared for a nuclear strike?

Are Americans prepared for a nuclear strike?


At the height of the Cold War, Americans were worried that at any moment the country could become engaged in a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The federal government built thousands of fallout shelters across the country and bombarded the airwaves with public service announcements about what to do in the event of an attack. Today, only remnants of this era still exist. But has the threat of a nuclear strike really disappeared? And are Americans prepared if it were to happen?

Alex Jones: America is becoming a tyranny

Alex Jones: America is becoming a tyranny

RT correspondent Kaelyn Forde and cameraman Jon Conway were arrested over the weekend filming a rally of the School of America Watch in Fort Benning, GA. As a journalist Alex Jones has been arrested and he says police are targeting the media in order to prevent them from showing the truth. Radio host Alex Jones says the US government hires police provocateurs to use violence and then use it as an excuse to attack peaceful protestors