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Yolks on you
Thu,30 Jun 2011 03:08 PM PDT
The Newsroom - OK, maybe not on you, but the yolks were definitely on one Charlotte Matthews. The British cake decorator cracked a record 29 double yolks ... in row. The British Egg Information Service says the odds of cracking just one double … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 | Top |
Abortion clinics may shutter tomorrow in Kansas
Thu,30 Jun 2011 02:35 PM PDT
The Lookout - Post has been updated at bottom. Kansas may soon become the only state in the union where women cannot access a legal abortion provider. The state recently denied a license to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Overland Park after the state legislature passed a new rule changing the standards for clinics, the liberal magazine Mother Jones [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Petraeus confirmed as CIA director
Thu,30 Jun 2011 01:44 PM PDT
The Envoy - The Senate voted 94 to 0 today to confirm Gen. David Petraeus as CIA director. Petraeus told lawmakers earlier this month that he would retire from the Army to take up the post. The Senate was also moving today to approve by unanimous consent the confirmation of Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John Allen to serve [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Mormon Church reminds top brass to stay clear of electoral politics in 2012
Thu,30 Jun 2011 01:12 PM PDT
The Ticket - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a long-standing policy guiding top officials to stay out of electoral politics, but in case there was any confusion, the church reminded top leaders this week to avoid getting involved in the 2012 campaigns or even donating to candidates. Two Mormons are running for the White [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Fox News announces temporary post-Beck plans
Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:43 PM PDT
The Cutline - Fox News Channel has announced a provisional replacement for outgoing host Glenn Beck--five of them, actually. Starting July 11, a news and opinion show with a rotating round-table of five personalities from the network will move into Beck's soon-to-be former time slot. (His final show airs in less than two hours from the time of [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Sarkozy assaulted at public appearance
Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:25 PM PDT
The Envoy - French President Nicholas Sarkozy was grabbed by the shoulder and almost yanked to the ground by a man at a public appearance in the southwestern French town of Brax today. The incident happened as Sarkozy was greeting people who had gathered along a barricade to shake hands with the French leader. Sarkozy's assailant, who was [...] Full Story1 | Top |
FEC votes to allow candidates to raise cash for ‘super PACs’
Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:06 PM PDT
The Ticket - In a move that could dramatically change the financial landscape for the upcoming 2012 elections, the Federal Election Commission unanimously ruled Thursday that politicians can solicit funds for so-called "super PACs," political groups that raise unlimited and largely unregulated contributions. The move knocks down a wall between candidates and outside groups who are expected to [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Justice Department to probe two detainee deaths
Thu,30 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT
The Lookout - The Justice Department has opened a full criminal probe into whether U.S. government personnel broke laws against torture in connection with the deaths in custody of two detainees during the first few years of the War on Terror. In 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder had asked a special prosecutor, John Durham, to undertake an investigation [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Twitter to host Obama ‘Town Hall’ two weeks before GOP debate
Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:49 AM PDT
The Cutline - Twitter announced today that it plans to host a "Town Hall" with President Barack Obama next week, focused on the economy and jobs. The event, moderated by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be streamed live online from the White House on July 6 beginning at 2 p.m. EST. To participate, Twitter users are being asked [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Ed Dept calls out colleges that hiked tuition by 50 percent
Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:32 AM PDT
The Lookout - The Department of Education has listed the 5 percent of colleges that hiked their tuition by the largest percentages over the past three years. The new listing is part of an effort to make college pricing more transparent to young people. Northern New Mexico College, Georgia State University, San Diego State University, and Florida State [...] Full Story1 | Top |
The 55-year-old intern: A tale of the downturn
Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:30 AM PDT
The Lookout - Elizabeth Romanaux spent the spring compiling contact lists and doing other administrative tasks at the PR firm where she works, and sometimes fetching lunch. Nothing unusual about that--she's an intern. But here's what's surprising: she's 55. After losing her job as a media relations manager, Romanaux took the unpaid gig with a PR firm in [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Alabama Republican says he will ‘do anything short of shooting’ illegal immigrants
Thu,30 Jun 2011 11:02 AM PDT
The Ticket - Amid a tense debate over immigration policy in Alabama, Republican Rep. Mo Brooks told constituents at a town hall meeting Wednesday that he would "do anything short of shooting" illegal immigrants while working on immigration-related legislation. "As your congressman on the House floor, I'll do anything short of shooting them, anything that is lawful," Brooks [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Fake photo fallout: Chinese officials embrace social media to explain mixup
Thu,30 Jun 2011 10:12 AM PDT
The Envoy - One of the worst doctored photographs in Internet history? That's the emerging verdict on a clumsily altered photo of bureacrats in the sleepy county of Huili, in southwest China's Sichuan province. In an ill-fated PR stunt, the trio of area government officials are shown appearing to float over the surface of a road, casting nary [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Job site’s employment guarantee not targeted to most jobless
Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:51 AM PDT
The Lookout - A fascinating article on Slate looks at a new service offered by a high-end job search website, which guarantees it will find work for job seekers willing to pay a $2,500 fee. The catch: The service is only open to candidates the site, TheLadders, deems good prospects, and TheLadders already focuses on white-collar jobs that [...] Full Story1 | Top |
NBC News brushes off report of Chris Hansen affair
Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:40 AM PDT
The Cutline - NBC News doesn't seem much concerned with an irony-clad scandal that appears to be enveloping one of its "Dateline NBC" correspondents. The network personality in question is Chris Hansen, best known for entrapping pedophiles on the erstwhile MSNBC reality series "To Catch a Predator." Now, after shaming many an alleged pervert in hidden-camera sting operations, [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Birthers sue Esquire for more than $100 million over satire they say hurt book sales
Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:34 AM PDT
The Cutline - If you thought birther conspiracy theorists went the way of Donald Trump's presidential hopes, think again. Joseph Farah--who runs the World Net Daily website and a related book imprint--and Jerome Corsi, author of "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Hussein Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President," held a press conference in Washington, [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Romney video highlights closed plant Obama visited to tout stimulus
Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:30 AM PDT
The Ticket - As President Obama heads to Pennsylvania today to raise cash for his re-election effort, Mitt Romney will make his own appearance in the state, where he'll slam the president over his handling of the economy. The former Massachusetts governor will speak to reporters outside Allentown Metal Works, a factory Obama visited in 2009 to tout [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Immigrant rights groups sue L.A. Sheriff’s office
Thu,30 Jun 2011 09:07 AM PDT
The Lookout - Immigrant rights groups are demanding L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca hand over documents that show how many residents the department is turning over to the Feds to be deported--and how much that's costing taxpayers. The sheriff's office told Courthouse News they aren't allowed to release that information, and that only the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Obama campaign rollout hasn’t all gone as planned
Thu,30 Jun 2011 08:36 AM PDT
The Ticket - It's been a little less than three months since President Obama announced his 2012 re-election campaign. While that carefully choreographed rollout was hardly a surprise, the Obama campaign team has run into some early unexpected bumps in run-up to 2012. Just this week, the Obama camp was forced to defend using the White House as a [...] Full Story1 | Top |
MSNBC suspends Mark Halperin for Obama remark
Thu,30 Jun 2011 07:58 AM PDT
The Cutline - MSNBC has suspended political analyst and Time magazine writer Mark Halperin indefinitely over a remark he made about President Obama Thursday morning. "Mark Halperin's comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable," said MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines in a statement. "We apologize to the President, the White House and all of our viewers. We strive for [...] Full Story1 | Top |
China opens world’s longest bridge over water
Thu,30 Jun 2011 07:35 AM PDT
The Lookout - After four years and the pouring of 81 million cubic feet of concrete, the Jiaozhou Bay bridge is finally ready. China opened the world's longest bridge over water Thursday, linking the eastern port city of Qingdao to Huangdao island--a span of 26.4 miles. You can see more photos here, and some vital stats are below: [...] Full Story1 | Top |
New jobless claims tick up again
Thu,30 Jun 2011 06:22 AM PDT
The Lookout - The number of Americans putting in first-time claims for jobless benefits stayed high last week. Four hundred and twenty-nine thousand people made initial claims for unemployment insurance, the Labor Department said. That's up a tick from 428,000 the previous week. The four-week moving average, which smooths out volatility in the data, was essentially unchanged from [...] Full Story1 | Top |
FIRST CUTS: Conrad Black’s book; Anderson Cooper’s daytime show
Thu,30 Jun 2011 06:09 AM PDT
The Cutline - Our list of headlines that should be on your morning media menu: • Prison-bound former media mogul Conrad Black has found a publisher for his memoir. (Media Decoder) • More from Jack Shafer on the "hyperloco" news conundrum. (Slate) • Rem Rieder calls for a moratorium on "scandal-gate." (American Journalism Review) • Anderson Cooper's new [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Pivotal fundraising deadline looms for 2012 candidates
Thu,30 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT
The Ticket - Tonight at midnight marks a key deadline in the 2012 race for the presidency: the conclusion of second quarter campaign fundraising. It's the first time the public will get a glimpse of how well--or not--President Obama and many of his 2012 rivals are doing financially in what many have called the "invisible primary" of the [...] Full Story1 | Top |
FIRST LOOK: Greece expected to pass austerity measures to avert default
Thu,30 Jun 2011 05:35 AM PDT
The Lookout - Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • Greece is expected to pass harsh austerity measures in order to stave off a default on the county's debt. (The New York Times) • In the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster, Germany will end its use of nuclear power by 2022. (AP) • [...] Full Story1 | Top |
Princess Diana at 50: How her legacy lives on
Wed,29 Jun 2011 03:57 PM PDT
The Newsroom - If Princess Diana were still alive, Friday, July 1, would be her 50th birthday. Many are speculating what she would be like today â€" how she would look, where she would live, who she would have married. The magazine Newsweek … Continue reading â†' Full Story1 | Top |
Glenn Beck’s future, and Fox News Channel’s without him
Wed,29 Jun 2011 03:24 PM PDT
The Cutline - It was supposed to be a quaint summer evening outdoors with the family. Green grass. Golden sunset. Picnic baskets. Old Hitchcock movie under the stars. But to hear Glenn Beck tell it, the scene at Manhattan's Bryant Park Monday evening was more like a lynching. No sooner had the talk show host sat down with [...] Full Story1 | Top |
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