As Ye Sew: The owners of a Bangladesh sewing factory that burned last year, killing 112 workers, have been charged with culpable homicide. The fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in November 2012 was considered a major disaster. But it …

Wet White Christmas: A winter storm stretching from Arkansas to the northern tip of Maine is bringing everything from flood warnings to snow and ice. Tornadoes ripped through Mississippi yesterday, killing one man when his mobile home overturned and another …

Nation: Even while he considers changes to intelligence practices revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, President Obama declined to say whether he would consider amnesty for Snowden, who set the whole debate in motion. “As important and as necessary as …

London Collapse: The ceiling of the 113-year-old Apollo Theater in London collapsed during a performance last night, injuring 76 people, seven of them seriously. About 700 people were watching a show when, according to witnesses, the ceiling fell into the …

The Taper Arrives: Stocks jumped yesterday when the Federal Reserve announced it will scale back its economic stimulus by $10 billion a month starting in January. That drops the stimulus to $75 billion a month. This is the much discussed …

Nation: Leaders of major tech companies urged President Obama yesterday to dial back the NSA’s electronic spying. Execs from Google, Apple, Yahoo and other companies met with the President for two hours, a day after the NSA’s massive data collection …

Unconstitutional: The NSA’s indiscriminate collection of domestic telephone data violates the Constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, according to a ruling by a federal judge. DC District Judge Richard Leon also noted that the NSA was unable to cite …

Nation: The roadblock is usually in the House, but there’s some doubt this week whether the federal budget compromise will pass the Senate. Some Republican senators are miffed that they were not included in the negotiations between House Republican Paul …

Mandela Funeral: Former South African President Nelson Mandela was buried today in the Eastern Cape village of Qunu where he lived as a child. After six hours of ceremony at the end of 10 days of national mourning, Mandela’s body …

School Shoot: A Colorado high school student who took a shotgun to school yesterday to hunt a teacher, ended up wounding two students before killing himself. It happened at Arapahoe High School in suburban Denver, just a few miles from …