Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration has said it intends to try several of the prisoners now detained at Guantanamo Bay in civilian courts in this country. This would include Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and other detainees allegedly involved. The Justice Department claims that our courts are [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Times will cut up to 150 positions, including 100 in the newsroom, amid industrywide declines in advertising revenue, the newspaper and its largest union said Monday. The Times will offer voluntary buyouts at first but will resort to layoffs if it cannot meet the targets. “I hope that [...]
DW-World: As Germany prepares for a mass-immunization against the swine flu, there are growing concerns about the existence of two different shots – one for a selected few and one for the rest of the population. In one week’s time, Germany is scheduled to begin a mass immunization against the swine flu. But the type [...]
GENEVA (AP) – The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush leaned back in his chair and soaked in the round of applause. This was not Baghdad or Damascus or Beirut. This was Geneva, where Muntadhar al-Zeidi was given a hero’s welcome Monday far warmer than the subdued reception in his [...]
The Hill: A poll released over the weekend shows that only 34 percent of Californians approve of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) job performance, down 14 points from March. The study, conducted by the Field Research Corportation, also showed that 44 percent of respondents disapproved of her job performance while 22 percent held no opinion. [...]
BBC: The UK faces a “catastrophe” of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned. Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the “impasse”. He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which [...]
Politico: In a dramatic shift, the Chamber of Commerce announced Monday that it is throwing its support behind climate change legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal drug agents won’t pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration. Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use [...]
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The New York Douchebags: WASHINGTON — As the Senate prepares to tackle global warming, the nation’s energy producers, once united, are battling one another over policy decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades. Producers of natural gas are battling their erstwhile allies, the oil companies. Electrical utilities are fighting among themselves over [...]
Times Online: President Karzai’s camp today declared a “deadlock” as a UN-backed watchdog reported “clear and convincing evidence of fraud” in Afghanistan’s election and reportedly revised the results to force a second round of voting. Mohammad Moin Marastyal, an Afghan MP and leading member of Mr Karzai’s campaign team. said that the UN-backed Electoral Complaints [...]
