The suffering of the Syrian people is getting worse amid escalating violence in the country, the head of the United Nations mission there said today, just days after his observers came under direct attack resulting in the suspension of their monitoring activities.

“I made that decision based on the risks on the ground and based on the fact that risks made it extremely difficult to implement mandated tasks,” the head of the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) and Chief Military Observer, Major-General Robert Mood, told reporters after a closed-door meeting with the Security Council.

NYC Council Member James Vacca, Chair of the New York City Council Transportation Committee sponsored an oversight hearing to discuss the transit needs of outer borough commuters.

The year was 1900. Over three years after fire had destroyed the buildings on Ellis Island, a brand new station was built at the end of the year. Between then and the end of the decade, over six million immigrants were processed in that three acre island now known as The Gateway to America. The largest group was processed in 1907 with more than one million immigrants passed through.
Since then, there have been endless amounts of immigrants wishing to live in the land of freedom and justice for all. Europeans, Africans, Hispanics, Asians...etc..

G-20 GROUP PRIORITIES. Creating Jobs and Economic Growth.
The world's largest economies support increased government spending for these countries to achieve complete financial stability, as they wrap up in Los Cabos, Mexico.

RUTGERS WEBCAM CONVICT. Released For Good Behavior.
Dharun Ravi ordered released from NJ's Middlesex County jail after serving 20 days of his 30-day sentence for spying on his gay roommate, Tyler Clementi later committed suicide.

ROMNEY RETURNS TO HIS ROOTS. Where His Father Ruled.

Ahead of World Refugee Day, the United Nations refugee agency reported today that a record 800,000 people were forced to flee across borders last year, more than at any time since 2000.

The new refugees are part of a total of 4.3 million people who were newly displaced last year, owing to a string of major humanitarian crises that began in late 2010 in Côte d'Ivoire, and followed by others in Libya, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere, according to Global Trends 2011, issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).