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In shift, Turkey signals support for anti-Assad Syria militia group
Thu,27 Oct 2011 02:49 PM PDT
The Envoy - Turkey, whose leadership once hesitated to break relations with Syria's Bashar al-Assad's regime, is now giving shelter to some 60 to 70 members of an anti-Assad militia group called the Free Syrian Army, the New York Times' Liam Stock reports. "Composed of defectors from the Syrian armed forces," the Free Syrian Army has found refuge [...] Full Story | Top |
Cain's abortion policy problems aren't over yet
Thu,27 Oct 2011 02:40 PM PDT
The Ticket - Businessmen Herman Cain has found himself in hot water over the past several weeks for his ambiguous rhetoric on the government's role in abortion, and despite several attempts to clarify his position, his critics aren't letting up. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum launched a new three-minute Web ad Thursday slamming Cain for not taking a [...] Full Story | Top |
Even in New York City, sex education is controversial
Thu,27 Oct 2011 02:01 PM PDT
The Lookout - A group of parents and religious leaders are outraged that New York City will soon require comprehensive sex education in middle school and high school. After The New York Post obtained some workbooks that may be used in the classes, the curriculum has attracted national media attention, with Fox News calling it "shocking." The workbooks ask [...] Full Story | Top |
News International had secret phone for hacking called 'The Hub,' report claims
Thu,27 Oct 2011 01:59 PM PDT
The Cutline - Via London's Independent: Specialist detectives from the Metropolitan Police have discovered the existence of a secret mobile phone within News International's east London headquarters that was used in more than 1,000 incidents of illegal hacking. The Independent has established that the phone, nicknamed "the hub", was registered to News International and located on the News [...] Full Story | Top |
General admission for Gingrich-Cain debate: $200 per ticket
Thu,27 Oct 2011 01:47 PM PDT
The Ticket - Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich will go head to head in their own "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate in a few weeks, but if you want to see it live, it's going to cost a pretty penny. General admission to the event costs $200, according to the Texas Patriots PAC, the nonprofit group that's [...] Full Story | Top |
White House criticizes The New Yorker's 'leading from behind' sourcing
Thu,27 Oct 2011 01:44 PM PDT
The Cutline - Here's something you don't see every day: the White House in a war of words with The New Yorker. During his interview with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" on Tuesday, President Barack Obama said he never used the phrase "leading from behind" to describe his approach to foreign policy. "This was a phrase that [...] Full Story | Top |
Tensions rise as Occupy Wall Street protests stretch across the country
Thu,27 Oct 2011 01:38 PM PDT
The Lookout - More than a month after the first Occupy Wall Street protests, the movement to highlight inequality and corporate influence on politics has spread across the country and around the world. But as the sit-ins drag on, tensions with local city officials are rising. In Oakland, there have been violent clashes between police and demonstrators. In [...] Full Story | Top |
Face transplant recipient grants first interview
Thu,27 Oct 2011 12:58 PM PDT
The Upshot - Two years ago, Charla Nash of Stamford, Conn., was attacked by her friend's escaped chimpanzee. The attack was so ferocious that Nash's face and hands were ripped off, leaving her disfigured and blind. Amazingly, Nash survived. She then underwent a face transplant earlier this year. Nash recently gave her first interview to Britain's Sky News. In [...] Full Story | Top |
Religious coalition wants ban on Village Voice 'child sex trafficking ads'
Thu,27 Oct 2011 12:32 PM PDT
The Cutline - Village Voice Media, the alt-weekly publisher, has been rocked by layoffs in recent weeks. And now a clergy group has attacked the company for what it calls "child sex trafficking ads" on the Village Voice-owned classified listings site Backpage.com. The interfaith clergy coalition, called Groundswell, claims that more than 50,000 people have expressed their support [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Perry comes out against Confederate flag license plate
Thu,27 Oct 2011 12:27 PM PDT
The Ticket - Texas Gov. Rick Perry has come out against the marketing of a Confederate license plate in his state, an issue that could come up again in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. As the Austin American Statesman's Jason Embry reports, the plate has been proposed by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an ancestral history [...] Full Story | Top |
College students in Maryland moved to cruise ship after mold outbreak
Thu,27 Oct 2011 10:25 AM PDT
The Lookout - Hundreds of college students at the St. Mary's College of Maryland are relocating to a 300-foot cruise ship docked in a nearby river after black mold infested two dorms. "I certainly never imagined that my freshman year would be this interesting," one student told the Baltimore Sun. Full Story | Top |
Gadhafi's dead, but White House war on "leading from behind" escalating
Thu,27 Oct 2011 10:19 AM PDT
The Envoy - Moammar Gadhafi was buried in a secret location in the Libyan desert this week, bringing closure to Libyans' nine-month struggle to topple their dictator of 42 years. Despite the victory celebrations in Benghazi over Gadhafi's demise, the Obama administration apparently is still bothered by a noteworthy phrase that has been used to describe President Barack [...] Full Story | Top |
Will Mitch McConnell's stiff-arm keep West Virginia out of the Big 12?
Thu,27 Oct 2011 10:12 AM PDT
The Ticket - The most volatile issue in the Senate right now may not be the super committee's fight over budget cuts or the continued bickering over President Obama's jobs plan. It's a subject far more personal, a volatile point of contention that can divide even the best of colleagues and inspire the kind of political vendettas that [...] Full Story | Top |
Are American workers in a race against the machine?
Thu,27 Oct 2011 09:53 AM PDT
The Lookout - Is technology worsening America's jobs crisis? That's the argument of a new book, Race Against The Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. The authors contend that advances in technology have reduced the economy's ability to create new jobs [...] Full Story | Top |
Herman Cain responds to criticism of his 'smoking' Web ad
Thu,27 Oct 2011 09:33 AM PDT
The Ticket - The Internet was ablaze Tuesday after Herman Cain's presidential campaign released a short Web ad featuring campaign manager Mark Block (gasp!) smoking a cigarette. It didn't take long for the conspiracy theories to flow in: He's shilling for bid tobacco! There's a hidden message! Think of the children! Within hours, parodies emerged online. Comedy Central's Stephen [...] Full Story | Top |
$6.6 billion in lost Iraq cash now accounted for, inspector says
Thu,27 Oct 2011 08:39 AM PDT
The Envoy - It's a rare day when positive news surfaces from the frontlines of Iraq's post-occupation government--or from its troubled economy. However, a U.S. Iraq inspector general report that concluded this week that $6.6 billion in shrink-wrapped cash the U.S. government previously feared had gone missing in the chaotic early days of the Iraq occupation has in [...] Full Story | Top |
Pentagon mulling 'feasible' designs for flying Humvee
Thu,27 Oct 2011 08:17 AM PDT
The Lookout - The high-tech researchers at the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) say they're reviewing two "feasible" designs for a flying Humvee vehicle called the "Transformer." The tank-like machine is supposed to be able to take off and land vertically. The plan is for it to be operated by a person without flight training--or by [...] Full Story | Top |
How to cover your web browsing tracks
Thu,27 Oct 2011 08:14 AM PDT
Technology News Blog - We're all familiar with the sinking feeling you get when the power goes out and the computer fails to save something you've been working on. What we don't often consider is that there's a lot of stuff computers hang onto that we … Continue reading → Full Story | Top |
Judge denies John Edwards' motion to dismiss criminal case
Thu,27 Oct 2011 08:06 AM PDT
The Ticket - A federal judge in North Carolina denied a motion Thursday from former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards to throw out the criminal campaign finance case pending against him. The move paves the way for the trial to begin in January. The former North Carolina senator was indicted in June on charges that he illegally used [...] Full Story | Top |
Washington Post defends publishing odd Occupy Oakland photo featuring cop petting kitten
Thu,27 Oct 2011 07:52 AM PDT
The Cutline - News outlets and demonstrators alike chronicled the violence that erupted between police and Occupy Wall Street protesters in Oakland on Tuesday night. As a result, news consumers saw plenty of dramatic, teargas-filled images and video beamed, streamed and broadcast across virtually all media platforms. And that's why many readers were puzzled by the Washington Post's [...] Full Story | Top |
Poll: Gun ownership at 20-year high
Thu,27 Oct 2011 07:04 AM PDT
The Lookout - Nearly half of Americans say they have a gun in their household, the highest percentage since 1993, according to a new Gallup poll. Forty-seven percent of Americans say they have a gun on their property. Gun ownership is up among Republicans as well as Democrats, though only 40 percent of Democrats say their home has [...] Full Story | Top |
Rick Perry plans to skip some upcoming debates
Thu,27 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT
The Ticket - Rick Perry, who earlier this week called his participation in recent presidential debates a "mistake," plans to limit his participation in upcoming forums heading into the heat of the primary season. The Texas governor and 2012 hopeful will participate in a CNBC debate scheduled for Nov. 9 in Michigan, but a top aide told CNN's [...] Full Story | Top |
Economy shows modest improvement in third quarter
Thu,27 Oct 2011 06:39 AM PDT
The Lookout - The economy is modestly picking up steam, and appears not to be currently in danger of slipping back into recession--but it's still a long way from where it needs to be, according to new government numbers. The Commerce Department said Thursday that the economy grew at a rate of 2.5 percent between July and September. [...] Full Story | Top |
Jon Huntsman on the tea party, the polls, and his hair: the Yahoo News interview
Wed,26 Oct 2011 09:00 PM PDT
The Ticket - WASHINGTON--A crowd of eager college students huddled outside an auditorium at The George Washington University on Tuesday, pleading with a skinny kid wearing a headset to let them inside. "There's no more room," the kid insisted. "I can't let you in." Some in the crowd begged--one even asked me if he could pretend to be [...] Full Story | Top |
Ruth and Bernie Madoff attempted suicide after Ponzi scheme exposed
Wed,26 Oct 2011 03:09 PM PDT
The Lookout - Ruth Madoff tells CBS' "60 Minutes" that she and her Ponzi-scheming husband attempted suicide after his criminal activities were uncovered. "I don't know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening," Madoff told CBS. "We had terrible phone calls. Hate mail, just beyond anything and [...] Full Story | Top |
Polls: Romney leads in early voting states
Wed,26 Oct 2011 02:33 PM PDT
The Ticket - A series of polls released Thursday in states holding early Republican caucuses and primary election show former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leading the pack in the first four states. For several weeks, businessman Herman Cain has dominated national polls, but the CNN/Time/ORC surveys suggests that Cain's support may be slowly deflating. Cain remains competitive in [...] Full Story | Top |
Young boy wishes to join Girl Scouts
Wed,26 Oct 2011 02:01 PM PDT
The Upshot - Bobby Montoya is a 7-year-old boy from Denver. Unlike a lot of young boys, Bobby has no desire to join the Boy Scouts. Instead, he wants to be a Girl Scout. We first saw Montoya's story over at 9news.com. The NBC affiliate reports that when the boy's mother, Felisha Archuleta, tried to sign her son [...] Full Story | Top |
Army Ranger on 14th deployment killed in action in Afghanistan
Wed,26 Oct 2011 01:54 PM PDT
The Envoy - A United States Army Ranger who has served in 14 combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan since September 11, 2001 was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, ABC News reports. Sgt. First Class Kristoffer B. Domeij, 29, was killed on Saturday in Kandahar Province when his elite unit accidentally set off a roadside bomb. A member [...] Full Story | Top |
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