Robert Millage, 34, with a wolf he caught on the first day of hunting season in 2009 in Idaho Time: For Robert Millage, killing the first wolf in Idaho’s inaugural hunt was a dubious honor. In May 2009, the gray wolf was taken off the list of endangered species for the Northern Rocky Mountain region, [...]
Los Angeles Times: The blaze broke out about 2 a.m. Monday at a police shooting range. Since January there have been four incidents targeting gang task force officers and city property. Authorities are investigating whether an early morning fire Monday at a Hemet police shooting range was yet another attack on the department, which has [...]
The Hill: The Senate’s only African-American member late Monday called on President Barack Obama to appoint a black nominee to the Supreme Court. Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) told The Hill he is “working on” a list of qualified, potential African-American candidates to send Obama for the court vacancy that will be created this summer with [...]
New York Daily News: A safari theme park in Thailand has become a macabre tourist attraction for its orangutan kick boxing matches – complete with simian “round card girls.” Safari World, on the outside of Bangkok, has been drawing huge crowds that cheer orangutans forced to wear boxing gloves and trained to trade punches and [...]
The Hill: Senior administration officials are stressing that this week’s nuclear security summit is focused on the threat of nuclear terrorism, but the White House might find that its thunder is stolen by questions about Iran. President Barack Obama’s summit in Washington, with heads of state and official representatives from 47 countries, is set up [...]
Politico: SEIU officials: Stern to resign Service Employees International Union President Andrew Stern, one of America’s most prominent labor leaders, is set to resign, according to a member of the union’s board and another SEIU official. The President of an SEIU local based in Seattle, Diane Sosne, broke the news to her staffers at 11:35 [...]
Washington Times: Real personal income for Americans – excluding government payouts such as Social Security – has fallen by 3.2 percent since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. For comparison, real personal income during the first 15 months in office for President George W. Bush, [...]
President Barack Obama bows to Chinese President Hu Jintao during the official arrivals for the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Monday April 12, 2010.
Rochester Post-Bulletin: An e-mail sent out by a Rochester public school teacher calling on others to protest the Rochester Tea Party Patriots’ rally on Thursday is drawing sharp criticism from Tea Party members. The e-mail was sent out to all teachers in the school district and states that “if you are interested in combating the [...]
BERLIN (AP) — The German maker of a new tablet PC is setting out to rival Apple’s iPad with the promise of even more technology such as a bigger screen, a webcam and USB ports. It is not, however, an “iPad killer” as it has been dubbed by some blogs but an alternative to its [...]
Biden’s Letter: Friend – Two weeks after it was signed into law, health insurance reform is still the talk of the town. It’s for a good reason: This was a historic accomplishment. But it wasn’t easy. I remember what it’s like to be a senator and take a tough stand on an issue — confident [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty. Tea party movement leaders say they’ve discussed the idea with several [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A Nevada Supreme Court panel is scheduling oral arguments June 11 in Las Vegas on pending appeals by O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges in a September 2007 hotel room heist. A clerk for the state high court in Carson City says a panel [...]
New York Times: The Washington Post won four Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for its work in 2009, and The New York Times won three, while ProPublica became the first of the new breed of online, nonprofit news organizations to win the most prestigious award in print journalism. At The Post, Kathleen Parker, a conservative political [...]
Foreign Policy: President Obama said Sunday that the United States is still “working on” democracy and a top aide said he has taken “historic steps” to improve democracy in the United States during his time in office. The remarks came as Obama met with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev — one of the U.S. president’s many [...]
Fox News: Thousands of public schools nationwide will allow students affiliated with a gay and lesbian advocacy group to sponsor an anti-bullying “Day of Silence” on Friday, a demonstration some socially conservative family organizations say is a disruptive waste of taxpayer dollars and a reason to keep kids out of school. GLSEN — the Gay, [...]
