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The Red Tape Chronicles: One every 18 hours: Military suicide rate still high despite hard fight to stem deaths
Amid a raft of Pentagon initiatives to slow its suicide crisis, a new Army report Thursday showed the pace of self-inflicted deaths among soldiers — and all service members — has barely budged so far this year from the record rate the military suffere...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 6:15pm -07:00T (65 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Arias jury hung on penalty phase
Jurors in the high-profile Jodi Arias trial on Thursday failed to reach agreement over whether she should receive the death penalty for killing her ex-boyfriend.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens called for a retrial in the penalty phase...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:15pm -07:00T (66 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: 'Big step' or 'tragedy'? Web reacts to Scouts lifting ban on gays
Following the Boy Scouts of America's vote on Thursday to end its policy banning gay kids and teens from joining the organization while continuing to bar adult gays from serving as Scout leaders, reaction poured in from across the Internet. Here's a sampl...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:15pm -07:00T (48 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Father of slain man linked to Boston bombing suspect maintains son's innocence
The father of the man who was killed by FBI agents — after allegedly admitting he and Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev committed a triple homicide in 2011 — claims that his son is innocent and federal investigators made up their case agains...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:15pm -07:00T (67 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Boy Scouts vote to lift ban on gay youth
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to end its controversial policy banning gay kids and teens from joining one of the nation's most popular youth organizations, ditching membership guidelines that had roiled the group in recen...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 4:00pm -07:00T (64 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: IRS official Lerner placed on leave
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who oversees the agency’s division in charge of tax-exempt organizations, has been placed on administrative leave, a source told NBC News on Thursday. The IRS has selected Ken Corbin as acting director during Lerner's absen...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 4:00pm -07:00T (63 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Holder OK'd search warrant for Fox News reporter's private emails, official says
Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator†in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement o...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 4:00pm -07:00T (62 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Morgan Freeman appears to doze off during live interview
Zzzzz... Look, film promotion can be an exhausting business. And who can blame an esteemed actor like Morgan Freeman if he gets tired of doing the same kind of local-news interview to promote his new movie in dozens of cities? Freeman and Michael Caine sp...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:46pm -07:00T (70 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Ranking the 'Hangover' craziness, from teeth to tigers
The “Hangover†franchise is all about the Wolf Pack getting into and out of a lot of trouble in a short period of time. But everything's relative. Some of the movie trouble (head-shaving) is relatively minor, but other events (stealing Mike Tyson's ti...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:46pm -07:00T (68 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: 'Star Trek' beer boldly goes where no brew has gone before
“Star Trek Into Darkness†has already conquered the box office, and now J.J. Abrams and crew can toast their success with the first officially licensed adult beverage in the “Star Trek†universe, Vulcan Ale.Vulcan Ale was dreamed up by Canada’s ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 2:46pm -07:00T (65 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Activists rally – and pray – as Boy Scouts vote on gays
As 1,400 Boy Scouts of America delegates gathered Thursday to vote on a proposal to end the organization’s longstanding ban on gay youth, activists on both sides of the contentious issue ramped up the pressure.A group opposed to allowing gay Scouts post...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 12:15pm -07:00T (72 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Obama announces reframing of terrorism policy
In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe his counterterrorism strategy saying that “America is at a crossroads.â€â€œWe must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us, mindful of James Madison's ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 12:15pm -07:00T (66 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Obama reframes counterterrorism policy with new rules on drones
In a major address Thursday President Barack Obama sought to reframe his counterterrorism strategy saying that “America is at a crossroads.â€â€œWe must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us, mindful of James Madison's ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 12:15pm -07:00T (66 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: Sweden's happy, generous image challenged by four-day riot
STOCKHOLM -- Hundreds of youths have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:15am -07:00T (65 words)
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The Red Tape Chronicles: UK mom calms man with blood-soaked knife after suspected deadly terror attack
LONDON - A mother-of-two who confronted a blood-soaked, knife-carrying man in the moments after the suspected ideologically motivated murder of a British soldier said she did so in order to protect the crowd of onlookers.Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, jumped o...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 5:00am -07:00T (66 words)
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