Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News:
|
|
Turkey's military chiefs resign
Fri,29 Jul 2011 03:39 PM PDT
The Envoy - Last week, Gen. David Petraeus met with Turkey's top military commander, Gen. Isik Kosaner, on a stop-off in Ankara as he made his way back from commanding international peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan to take up his new post as CIA director in Washington. Today, Gen. Kosaner abruptly resigned--along with three other Turkish military chiefs--in the [...] Full Story | Top |
House passes Boehner's debt ceiling plan–and Senate puts it on ice
Fri,29 Jul 2011 03:34 PM PDT
The Ticket - After a grinding week of negotiations in the House of Representatives, the chamber's GOP majority finally approved Speaker John Boehner's plan to increase the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling just ahead of the the Aug. 2 deadline for its expiration. And in short order, the Democratic-led Senate voted to table the House-passed measure in favor [...] Full Story | Top |
Huntsman calls out Romney and GOP rivals on debt debate
Fri,29 Jul 2011 01:51 PM PDT
The Ticket - As the House prepares to take up John Boehner's debt bill, Jon Huntsman remains the only 2012 hopeful who has endorsed the speaker's legislation--a position he's trumpeting on the campaign trail. At a GOP dinner in Washington Thursday night, the former Utah governor criticized both President Obama and his Republican presidential rivals for not showing [...] Full Story | Top |
How to contact Congress
Fri,29 Jul 2011 01:49 PM PDT
The Newsroom - Here is contact information for your representatives and senators as the August 2 deadline for raising the debt ceiling approaches Full Story | Top |
The enemy within? Libyan rebel says commander killed by rebel faction with Islamist ties
Fri,29 Jul 2011 01:44 PM PDT
The Envoy - In an ominous update to news that the Libyan rebels' military chief was assassinated, witnesses and rebel officials have said he was killed by his own side. Former Libyan interior minister-turned-rebel commander Abdel Fatah Younis was assassinated Thursday under murky circumstances, after being summoned from the front lines to the eastern Libyan rebel stronghold of [...] Full Story | Top |
Picky robot prefers Tecate over Bud Light
Fri,29 Jul 2011 01:28 PM PDT
Technology News Blog - We've seen robots do some amazing things — from performing delicate surgical operations to competing in real-life sporting events — but Trossen Robotics' Darwin bot is different. Content in letting other bots do the hard work, Darwin's only goal in life — … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Barack Obama tells America to Twitter spam the GOP
Fri,29 Jul 2011 01:12 PM PDT
The Ticket - First, President Obama told you to call and email your lawmakers. But Twitter spam? The president on Friday took the unusual step of asking his nine million-plus Twitter followers to tweet at Republican members of Congress asking them to compromise on raising the debt limit. "The time for putting party first is over. If you [...] Full Story | Top |
Do zero tolerance school policies curb bad behavior?
Fri,29 Jul 2011 12:16 PM PDT
The Lookout - A new study has further complicated the challenge of discipline in the nation's schools, determining that little correlation exists between zero-tolerance discipline policies and well-behaved students. The research, published in the Journal of School Psychology, concludes that a young person's family structure, ability to focus and concentrate, and self-reported skill in controlling his or her [...] Full Story | Top |
Independent voters sour on President Obama
Fri,29 Jul 2011 11:30 AM PDT
The Ticket - In what could be a potentially bad sign for his re-election bid, President Obama has lost major ground with self-described independent voters this summer. A new Pew Research Center poll finds just 31 percent of independents say Obama deserves a second term in office, down 11 points since May. A majority of independent respondents—54 percent—disapprove [...] Full Story | Top |
Who will Uncle Sam pay if there's no debt deal?
Fri,29 Jul 2011 11:29 AM PDT
Exclusive - By JANE SASSEEN Yahoo! News Come Aug. 3, just who will get paid? That's the new worry coursing throughout Washington as the contentious debt ceiling negotiations hurtle towards Aug. 2, the deadline beyond which President Barack Obama has warned that … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Vanity Fair is first out of the gate with phone-hacking e-book
Fri,29 Jul 2011 11:06 AM PDT
The Cutline - Where are all the rapid-turnaround e-books on the U.K. phone-hacking scandal?, we wondered earlier this week. The saga has so far produced two print book deals, including one for Guardian reporter and resident champion of the phone-hacking beat Nick Davies, who has tirelessly chronicled the many shocking twists in the reported criminal behavior within the [...] Full Story | Top |
White House says Republicans want to steal Christmas
Fri,29 Jul 2011 10:39 AM PDT
The Ticket - There's quite a lot of spin coming out of Washington this week concerning the debt ceiling, but here's a real doozy: Republicans want to destroy Christmas. "Happy Holidays America: Boehner plan would have the debt ceiling all over again during the holiday season, which is critical for the economy," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer [...] Full Story | Top |
Apple has more cash than the federal government
Fri,29 Jul 2011 09:30 AM PDT
The Ticket - Who's ready for iAmerica? As the BBC has reported, the software company Apple has more cash on hand than the United States federal government, according to the company's financial records. Apple's quarterly financial report shows that the company responsible for the iPad, iPod and the iPhone now has $76.4 billion in reserve cash, while the [...] Full Story | Top |
Philadelphia English teacher explains why she helped students cheat
Fri,29 Jul 2011 09:02 AM PDT
The Lookout - The revelation that more than 80 Atlanta teachers admitted to cheating on state standardized tests--with one group of elementary teachers even holding a "party" after school to change their pupils' answers by hand--has rocked the education reform movement. But one question has been left unanswered: Why would a teacher resort to cheating in the first [...] Full Story | Top |
Was WSJ op-ed praising Boehner ill-conceived?
Fri,29 Jul 2011 09:00 AM PDT
The Cutline - Would it be absurd to run a piece praising John Boehner's leadership on the debt deal when it appears to have failed? The Wall Street Journal didn't seem to think so. The editorial section of the investor's broadsheet teed up a piece by opinion columnist Kimberley A. Strassel offering a glowing assessment of the House [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama: 'We are almost out of time' on debt crisis
Fri,29 Jul 2011 08:15 AM PDT
The Ticket - President Obama reiterated his call for a bipartisan solution to the nation's debt crisis, warning lawmakers Friday that they need to find "common ground" if the country is to avoid heading into financial default. "The time for putting party first is over," Obama said in brief remarks in the White House Diplomatic Room. "The time [...] Full Story | Top |
Sarah Palin stokes GOP divisions over debt limit
Fri,29 Jul 2011 07:31 AM PDT
The Ticket - Much of America is pushing Washington to reach a compromise this week and raise the debt limit. But not Sarah Palin. The former Alaska governor and potential 2012 presidential candidate on Thursday took to her favorite medium--Facebook--to publicly threaten tea party freshmen who may be considering compromising their fiscal-conservative values (as she sees it) by [...] Full Story | Top |
Poll: only 34 percent of Americans confident in public schools
Fri,29 Jul 2011 06:27 AM PDT
The Lookout - A new Gallup poll finds that Southerners, young people and people without a college education have more faith in the nation's public school system than other Americans. Overall, only 34 percent of Americans express a great deal of confidence in the nation's schools, continuing a record low that began in 2005. In the 1970s and [...] Full Story | Top |
FIRST CUTS: Murdoch stays put at BSkyB; Changes at Current TV
Fri,29 Jul 2011 06:04 AM PDT
The Cutline - Our list of stories that should be on your morning media menu: • James Murdoch will remain chairman of BSkyB. (WSJ) • An anatomy of the Piers Morgan Twitter rumor. (The Next Web) • Shake-up at the top of Current TV as co-CEO steps down. (Adweek) • Is the media ignoring the famine in Africa? [...] Full Story | Top |
News of the world: Syria's leaderless revolt, Lebanon tribunal names four suspects
Fri,29 Jul 2011 05:47 AM PDT
The Envoy - • Fear and confusion grip the Libyan rebel capital of Benghazi after military commander assassinated. (Associated Press) • Assassinated Libyan rebel commander Abdel Fatah Younis was reportedly arrested by rebel council before he was killed. (Al Jazeera) • The 18-week-old Syria revolt is still spontaneous and leaderless. (Washington Post) • The UN-backed Lebanon tribunal released [...] Full Story | Top |
Debt interactive: Countdown to the default deadline
Thu,28 Jul 2011 08:06 PM PDT
The Newsroom - In the past decade, Congress has raised the debt limit 10 times to accommodate the nation's growing spending. Now once again, America is close to hitting that ceiling, and lawmakers must quickly come up with a debt reduction plan to avoid a federal government default by August 2. Full Story | Top |
Libyan rebel commander shot dead
Thu,28 Jul 2011 03:17 PM PDT
The Envoy - The Libyan rebels' top military commander was assassinated Thursday after being summoned from the front lines for questioning by rebel leaders. Abdel Fattah Younes, 67, a former Muammar Gadhafi loyalist and onetime Libyan interior minister who had switched sides early in the uprising, was shot dead, along with two aides. The circumstances surrounding his killing [...] Full Story | Top |
Lacking votes, House Republicans postpone debt ceiling vote
Thu,28 Jul 2011 03:04 PM PDT
The Ticket - Just moments before a scheduled vote on House Speaker John Boehner's plan to raise the debt limit, GOP leaders pulled the bill from the floor and postponed the vote. House Republican leaders spent the week lobbying the GOP caucus to support the measure, which would raise the debt ceiling by about $900 billion and reduce [...] Full Story | Top |
East Africa famine: How to help
Thu,28 Jul 2011 02:39 PM PDT
The Newsroom - Tens of thousands of starving Somalis have flooded Mogadishu refugee camps in search of food as the nation fights the region's worst drought in 60 years and ruling militants who are blocking aid from western countries. Full Story | Top |
Study says college doesn't help career prospects of unauthorized immigrants
Thu,28 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT
The Lookout - A new study out of the University of Chicago has found that illegal immigrants who attend college find their career paths obstructed by their immigration status and end up with the same kinds of jobs available to their parents. California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law a state-level Dream Act to allow illegal immigrants [...] Full Story | Top |
| |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment