The 68th U.N. General Assembly sessions began in New York this week as members of almost 200 countries converged for a week of diplomacy and dialogue in hopes of reaching important breakthroughs for some of the most important worldly issues.
Former prosecutor and defense lawyer Paul Bergrin was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for facilitating murder, running drugs and operating a criminal syndicate out of his Newark law firm
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who in May acknowledged that the agency wrongly targeted tea party groups that were applying for a tax exemption status, retired from the agency effective Monday, Politico reported. When the IRS scandal hit, Lerner was placed on administrative leave.
Prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York leveled three defendants with terrorism related charges. The prosecutors described Ali Yasin Ahmed, Madhi Hashi and Mohamed Yusuf as "dangerous and influential" members of al-Shabaab, the same Islamic terrorist organization that has claimed responsibility for the attack at Westgate Mall, in Nairobi Kenya this past weekend
