German leaders gather today in the capital to mark the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s construction, as a debate over its place in history laid bare a legacy of political division.
Built on Aug. 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall stood for more than 28 years, as the construction and the people it kept apart came to symbolize the entrenched battle lines of the Cold War.
The U.S. Ski Team tossed off an 18-year-old member of its development squad after he was accused of getting drunk and then urinating on a fellow passenger aboard a JetBlue flight to New York City.
Robert Vietze was detained by police at the Kennedy Airport on Wednesday morning after a red-eye flight from Portland, Oregon.
Although federal prosecutors decided not to pursue criminal charges, Vietze was not out of trouble. U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Executive Vice President of Athletics Luke Bodensteiner sent a statement out on Friday to the Associated Press saying that Vietze had been dismissed from the team for his inappropriate conduct.
A college student was arrested after stripping to his running shorts at a Richmond International Airport checkpoint to protest security procedures. This week, a judge said that he expects to rule by the end of the month on whether or not to dismiss the lawsuit filed by this college student.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson set January 18th as the tentative date for a trial to start on the suit.
The incident centers on an incident on December 30 in which 21 year old Aaron Tobey of Charlottesville, Virginia was detained by Transportation Security Administration. In an effort to make a statement against airport security procedures, Tobey wrote the text of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution on his chest. This amendment is the one that protects Americans against unreasonable search and seizure.
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, an attorney for the U.S. Justice Department “argued in favor of a motion to dismiss Tobey’s lawsuit, which claims his constitutional rights were violated.”
