via CNN It’s lights out on Ted Nugent’s scheduled performance at an Army base in Kentucky. Commanders at Fort Knox have decided against allowing the “Motor City Madman” to take the stage at the base in June, the latest fallout over Nugent’s comments that he would be “dead or in jail” if President Barack Obama […]

via BBC News The US soldier accused of leaking thousands of government secrets struggled with emotional problems and gender issues, a court has heard. Private Bradley Manning faces 22 charges of distributing state secrets to anti-secrecy site Wikileaks. But his defence have questioned whether he should have been given access to the sensitive documents in […]

via BBC News The ringleader of the US military guards who photographed their abuse of suspected Iraqi insurgents at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison has been released. Charles Graner served more than six-and-a-half years of a 10-year sentence, army officials said. Graner, a former US Army Reserve specialist, was convicted of leading his six-member team in […]