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US Tea Party at crossroads after debt deal
Tue,2 Aug 2011 01:12 PM PDT
AFP -  The US Tea Party stood at a political crossroads Tuesday, split by a vote on raising the US debt limit after fractious negotiations that saw them declared both the big winners and losers.
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Debt deal set to pass but what were the costs?
Tue,2 Aug 2011 05:21 AM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - While the immediate crisis over a threatened default seems to have been averted by the eleventh-hour deal between the White House and Congress, the debt-limit drama has left behind crucial questions about the American political process, the viability of economic policy options and implications for the rest of the world. Full Story | Top |
Meet the new Super Congress
Tue,2 Aug 2011 12:17 PM PDT
The Ticket - Now that Congress has agreed on a general framework to raise the debt ceiling, party leaders will establish a bipartisan committee of lawmakers from both chambers to hash out the finer details. Under the new law, the federal government will cap spending levels by about $1 trillion over a ten-year period and delegate the responsibility [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama signs debt bill after final Senate vote
Tue,2 Aug 2011 11:09 AM PDT
AP -  The Senate emphatically passed emergency legislation Tuesday to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature just hours before the deadline. The vote was 74-26.
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Actor Matt Damon defends teacher tenure in testy exchange
Tue,2 Aug 2011 02:10 PM PDT
The Lookout - Actor Matt Damon got into a tense exchange with a journalist from the libertarian Reason TV site after she asked him whether teachers with tenure would lack incentive to work hard at their jobs. The journalist argued that Damon has an incentive to work hard as an actor because he lacks job security, while teachers [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama administration sues Alabama over immigration law
Tue,2 Aug 2011 06:29 AM PDT
The Lookout - The federal government is again taking a state to court, this time suing Alabama for a tough immigration law even further-reaching than Arizona's SB 1070 last year. "Today's action makes clear that setting immigration policy and enforcing immigration laws is a national responsibility that cannot be addressed through a patchwork of state immigration laws," Attorney [...] Full Story | Top |
Scientists stunned by surface of asteroid Vesta
Mon,1 Aug 2011 01:45 PM PDT
AP -  The first close-up pictures of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal a northern hemisphere littered with craters — including a trio nicknamed "Snowman" — and a smoother southern half, researchers reported Monday.
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Putin says U.S. is "parasite" on global economy
Mon,1 Aug 2011 02:45 PM PDT
Reuters -  LAKE SELIGER, Russia (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.
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Joe Biden collecting rent from Secret Service
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:48 PM PDT
The Ticket - Joe Biden is a landlord to the Secret Service. That's right. The Washington Times reports that Biden has collected $13,200 from the Secret Service since April to rent a cottage adjacent to his Wilmington, Del., home and continues to charge the agency rent. The Secret Service has agreed to pay $2,200 per month for use [...] Full Story | Top |
The GOP's hidden debt-deal agenda: Gut the EPA
Tue,2 Aug 2011 03:21 PM PDT
Time.com - It was lost in the endless drama of the debt-ceiling negotiations, but last week, the Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives launched an unprecedented attack on the U.S.'s environmental protections. GOP Representatives added rider after rider to the 2012 spending bill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, tacking on amendments that would essentially prevent those agencies - charged with protecting America's air, water and wildlife - from doing their jobs. Full Story | Top |
U.S. avoids default but fails to dispel economy fears
Tue,2 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States stepped back from the brink of default on Tuesday but congressional approval of a last-gasp deficit-cutting plan failed to dispel fears of a credit downgrade and future tax and spending feuds.
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Western press largely overlooks heroism of lesbian couple in Norway massacre
Tue,2 Aug 2011 09:30 AM PDT
The Envoy - As Norway continues to grapple with the attacks by a home-grown extremist that killed 77 people last month, one couple, who moved to help young people fleeing from gunman Anders Breivik, is getting a bit of belated recognition. Hege Dalen and her wife, Toril Hansen, were eating dinner on July 22nd on the other shore [...] Full Story | Top |
Debt is a done deal, but peace truce already fades
Tue,2 Aug 2011 04:03 PM PDT
AP -  With scant time to spare, President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to avoid an unprecedented national default that he said would have devastated the U.S. economy. But the truce with Republicans that defused the crisis seemed to be fading already.
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CNN's Don Lemon makes waves, sometimes at his own network's expense
Mon,1 Aug 2011 11:49 AM PDT
The Cutline - Don Lemon is having a coming out party--and this one has nothing to do with the CNN weekend anchor's recent announcement that he's gay. Lemon--who came out of the closet in a memoir published in May--was the focus of a "Daily Show" segment last week. "Every so often a news anchor ends up becoming a [...] Full Story | Top |
Pelosi's gutsy stand
Mon,1 Aug 2011 08:08 PM PDT
The Daily Beast -  The ex-speaker was disgusted by the debt deal, but voted yes for the good of the country. By Eleanor Clift
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Why Americans hated the debt debate
Tue,2 Aug 2011 04:00 AM PDT
Time.com - Pew came out with a new poll on Monday confirming what we all already knew: The American people think the last several weeks in Washington have been a disgrace. In fact, the words most often volunteered to the pollsters were "ridiculous," "disgusting," and "stupid." The response was negative from 75% of Republicans, 72% of Democrats and 72% of independents. More than twice as many people have a more negative view of President Obama (38%) because of the debate than a more positive view (18%). ... Full Story | Top |
Obama says more needed to boost U.S. economy
Tue,2 Aug 2011 10:57 AM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday a just-passed bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and cut spending was a first step toward ensuring the United States lives within its means but that more was needed to rebuild the world's largest economy.
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Debris From Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Found in Texas
Tue,2 Aug 2011 03:13 PM PDT
SPACE.com - A piece of debris from NASA's space shuttle Columbia has been discovered in Texas, eight years after the 2003 disaster that destroyed the spacecraft and killed its seven-astronaut crew during re-entry, NASA officials confirmed today (Aug. 2). Full Story | Top |
Massive rout spells trouble for Wall Street
Tue,2 Aug 2011 01:34 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 turned negative for the year on Tuesday as the wrangling over the U.S. debt ceiling faded and investors turned their attention to the stalling economy.
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Crop circle creation theory: physics, not aliens
Mon,1 Aug 2011 12:44 PM PDT
The Upshot - Those otherworldly crop circles may not have been caused by aliens after all. Instead, think physics: A study in Physics World points to the possibility that the patterns could be caused by Earth-bound microwaves, lasers, and GPS. Maybe. Formations in fields have been documented more than 10,000 times in the late 20th century. They have been credited [...] Full Story | Top |
3 Things the Debt Ordeal Accomplished
Tue,2 Aug 2011 08:25 AM PDT
U.S.News & World Report LP - Maybe Winston Churchill's aphorism still holds, and Americans can indeed "be counted on to do the right thing... after they have exhausted all other possibilities." In several ways, the virulent ... Full Story | Top |
Missing NH girl's body found in river near home
Mon,1 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT
AP -  The body of an 11-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared almost a week ago was discovered Monday in a river less than half a mile from her home, authorities said. The death was being considered suspicious.
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FBI pursues new clues in 1971 D.B. Cooper hijack case
Mon,1 Aug 2011 05:20 PM PDT
Reuters -  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Four decades after a skyjacker dubbed D.B. Cooper bailed out of a U.S. jetliner in mid-air and vanished with $200,000 in cash, federal agents are pursuing new clues pointing to a suspect they believe is long dead, an FBI spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Found: Messages in Bottles
Tue,2 Aug 2011 11:39 AM PDT
The Upshot - One year ago, off the coast of Oregon, a ten-year-old boy tossed a message in a bottle into the Pacific Ocean. Weeks ago, a 9-year-old girl in Hawaii found it. According to a popular article from the AP, Thomas Craig never expected his bottle to arrive safely in anyone's hands. He told West Hawaii Today [...] Full Story | Top |
Americans cut spending for first time in 20 months
Tue,2 Aug 2011 12:09 PM PDT
AP -  Americans cut their spending in June for the first time in nearly two years after seeing their incomes grow by the smallest amount in nine months. The latest data offered a troubling sign for an economy that is adding few jobs and barely growing.
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Vilnius mayor mounts a tank to crush car parked in bike lane
Tue,2 Aug 2011 12:43 PM PDT
The Envoy - It's true that former Soviet republics have unwelcome experience with tanks in the streets of their capitals. But never before, it seems safe to say, has a political leader brought out the heavy artillery to protect the integrity of a bike lane. But that's just what happened recently when Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, [...] Full Story | Top |
Chile: Snow, rain hit world's driest desert
Tue,2 Aug 2011 05:45 AM PDT
AP -  This has been the wettest winter in decades for Chile's arid northern desert, where fractions of an inch of rain have done major damage in some areas and set the stage for spectacular floral displays in the weeks to come.
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Gabby Giffords returns to Congress and helps House pass debt compromise
Mon,1 Aug 2011 04:18 PM PDT
The Ticket - Just a day before the United States faces financial default, House lawmakers approved a compromise bill that will raise the nation's debt ceiling in exchange for trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts. The bill, approved 269 to 161, will increase the debt ceiling by at least $2 trillion as well as cut roughly the [...] Full Story | Top |
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