Staff Blog
What We’ve Found: PA courts investigation, U.S. hikers tried as spies in Iran, climate change a U.S. security threat, tensions high at Copenhagen and Rutgers food-donation effort backfires
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
A U.S. Senate subcommittee will investigate Pennsylvania courts, following charges that cases are routinely dismissed too early, witnesses are intimidated and convictions are rarely made, Senator Arlen Specter declared over the weekend.
The Iranian judiciary announced a trial based on espionage charges against three American hikers who were detained by Iranian forces when they inadvertently strayed across its northern border with Iraq.
Climate change will be one of the security threats included in the U.S. Defense Department's 2010 review of its highest priorities, following the October establishment of a new Center for Climate Change Study at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Tensions were high at the climate change conference in Copenhagen, where representatives from developing countries threatened to leave on the grounds that the conference would result in a plan wherein they'd be forced to place unfair restrictions on their own emissions.
An effort by Rutgers students to donate leftovers from their meal-plans to a soup kitchen in New Brunswick backfired when university administrators prohibited the practice and the soup kitchen personnel refused to distribute the food because they couldn't vouch for its safety.
