London Evening Standard Benedict Moore-Bridger They may be America’s First Family but Michelle Obama with children in tow did today what all tourists do when in London – they visited Westminster Abbey. Mrs Obama and her daughters Sasha, 10, and eight-year-old Malia enjoyed a crash-course in 1,000 years of English history during their hour-long visit [...]
The Independent North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a “merciless offensive” if provoked — its latest bellicose rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast. The tensions emanating from Pyongyang are beginning to hit nascent business ties with the South: a Seoul-based fur manufacturer became [...]
The Sacramento Bee: Could California become the first state in the nation to do away with welfare? That doomsday scenario is on the table as lawmakers wrestle with a staggering $24.3 billion budget deficit. County welfare directors are “in shock” at the very idea of getting rid of CalWORKs, which has been widely viewed as [...]
NewsBusters: Newsweek editor Evan Thomas appeared on Sunday’s edition of Inside Washington and lauded President Obama as a “brave,” “great teacher” who “stands above everybody.” These comments were only slightly less hyperbolic than a gushing assertion on Friday’s Hardball. On that program, the journalist cooed, “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, [...]
Their cause must be facing record-low recruitment if they can’t even find one of their own worth blowing up anymore. FOX News: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Gaza militants with explosives-laden horses approached the Israeli border early Monday, igniting a battle that left four gunmen dead, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. The incident marked a [...]
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) – Brazilian searchers found a large tail section from an Air France jet Monday, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that could help narrow the search for Flight 447′s black boxes. A U.S. Navy team is bringing in high-tech underwater listening devices to detect pings from the data and [...]
World Net Daily: WASHINGTON – The company touting itself as the “world’s largest out-of-home media” enterprise has banned WND’s national billboard campaign that asks one simple question: “Where’s the birth certificate?” CBS Outdoor, a division of CBS Corp. that sells more outdoor advertising than any other billboard company in North America, refuses to accept purchases [...]
FOX News: President Obama pledged Monday to pump stimulus money into the economy over the next several months as part of a plan to create or save more than 600,000 jobs this summer, though the administration admits that at least 125,000 of those jobs are temporary. The administration decided to renew support for the $787 [...]
FOX News: Capitol Hill interns might miss out this summer on a famed lecture from Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn on the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases — all because of a dispute over who will pay for pizza. The Senate Ethics Committee is requiring that Coburn, a Republican, buy the pizza for the 150 to [...]
Yahoo News: BRUSSELS – Conservatives scored victories in some of Europe’s largest economies Sunday as voters punished left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and other nations. Some right-leaning parties said the results vindicated their reluctance to spend more on company bailouts and fiscal stimulus to combat the global economic crisis. The European [...]
NewsBusted: Bad news for those living in “Middle America.†Actress Megan Fox would like Megatron, the evil character from her new movie “Transformers,†to blow you up. Kat Giantis, of Wonderwall, reported the actress was recently interviewed by “Total Film UK.†Although nobody asked her who she would like Megatron to obliterate, she volunteered it [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor broke her ankle Monday morning in an airport stumble, then boarded her flight to Washington as scheduled and made the roughly hourlong trip to Washington to meet with senators who will vote on her confirmation. The federal judge, who has been keeping up a busy set of [...]
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