Major League Baseball will seek drug suspensions for about 20 players, including Most Valuable Players Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, because of their connections to a Miami-area clinic which offered injections of performance-enhancing drugs.
The U.S. military brass came under tough criticism from senators who slammed them for their handling of repeated allegations of sexual assault cases by military personnel.
Indian officials said an American tourist was gang -raped by a group of men in a hill resort in the northern part of the country. The woman was picked up by three men in a truck on Monday night while hitchhiking back to her guest house in Manali, a town in Himachal Pradesh state, police said. She had been visiting friends, and reportedly was unable to find a taxi cab home.
A military judge has granted Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting attack that left 13 dead, the option to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial. By representing himself, Hasan the opportunity to question the more than two dozen soldiers he was also accused of wounding in his brazen terrorist attack nearly 4 years ago.
