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• Pakistani spy agency denies it unmasked CIA chief Dec 18, 2021 02:27 AM
  
  • ISLAMABAD - An official with Pakistan's top spy service is denying it helped unmask the CIA's Islamabad station chief, who was forced to leave the country after threats were made to his life.
  • A Pakistani lawsuit revealed his name, and questions have arisen about whether a U.S. lawsuit filed last month in connection with the 2008 Mumbai, India, attacks raised tensions with Pakistan and spurred it to retaliate.
  • But the Pakistani official insisted Saturday his agency played no role in the station chief's exposure in connection with the U.S. lawsuit or for any other reason.

  • Mexico outraged by killing of anti-crime crusader Dec 18, 2021 02:04 AM
    
    • CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Anger over Mexico's creaky, inefficient justice system boiled over after a mother who waged a two-year battle to bring her daughter's killer to justice was herself shot to death, possibly by the same man suspected of murdering the teenager.
    • Escobedo was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where she died within minutes.
    • On Friday, a group of demonstrators gathered outside the Interior Department in Mexico City to protest the killing, briefly scuffling with police while chanting "Not one more death!"

    • James has triple-double, dominates again at MSG Dec 18, 2021 01:26 AM
      
      • NEW YORK - LeBron James always said he loved playing here.
      • James delivered another vintage performance at Madison Square Garden, scoring 32 points and finishing with his 30th career triple-double to help the Miami Heat beat the New York Knicks 113-91 for their 11th straight victory.
      • 6 jersey he hoped would belong to James - New York surged back to tie it at 57 at halftime.

      • Bones found on island might be Amelia Earhart's Dec 18, 2021 01:02 AM
        
        • NORMAN, Okla. - The three bone fragments turned up on a deserted South Pacific island that lay along the course Amelia Earhart was following when she vanished.
        • Now scientists at the University of Oklahoma hope to extract DNA from the tiny bone chips in tests that could prove Earhart died as a castaway after failing in her 1937 quest to become the first woman to fly around the world.
        • "There's no guarantee," said Ric Gillespie, director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, a group of aviation enthusiasts in Delaware that found the pieces of bone this year while on an expedition to Nikumaroro Island, about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii.

        • $7.2B is recovered for Madoff's victims Dec 18, 2021 01:02 AM
          
          • NEW YORK - Many of Bernard Madoff's victims who thought they lost everything could get at least half their money back after the widow of a Florida philanthropist agreed Friday to return a staggering $7.2 billion that her husband reaped from the giant Ponzi scheme.
          • Picower was the single biggest beneficiary of Madoff's fraud.
          • He commended Picower's widow, Barbara, "for agreeing to turn over this truly staggering sum, which really was always other people's money."

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