The Black Vault

Deaths have been reported after a tsunami hit the island of American Samoa following an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean.The quake measured 8.0 on the Richter scale. Stuart Weinstein from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre told Sky News a two-metre high wave had struck the capital Pago Pago. He also ...

Tsunami hits American Samoa By FILI SAGAPOLUTELE – 23 minutes ago PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — A powerful 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific between Samoa and American Samoa around dawn Tuesday, sending terrified residents fleeing for higher ground as a tsunami swept ashore, flatten...

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — DEVELOPING: A tsunami swept into Pago Pago, American Samoa, shortly after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.3 erupted in the area. There were no immediate reports of injuries or structural damage Tuesday. Fili Sagapolutele, who works at the Samoa News, says ...

Silvio Berlusconi's government, which has already put several thousand soldiers on the streets of Italy, will tomorrow legalise vigilante patrols and set out the guidelines under which they will operate. The plans prompted an outcry from opposition politicians and police unions, but got a mixed rece...

A Utah attorney claims the FBI edited some security camera videotapes from the morning of the Oklahoma City bombing before releasing the recordings to him. “Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain’t no such thing as ...

Sixteen people were arrested this morning at 99 Park Ave in New York City for entering the lobby of the health insurance company Aetna and demanding that Aetna stop denying healthcare approved by doctors. This was the beginning of a campaign in which over 300 people have committed to nonviolently ri...