The Hill: Senate Democrats urged BP to set up a $20 billion independent account to pay for the economic and environmental damages from the gulf oil spill. In a letter to BP chief executive Tony Hayward, Democrats said the establishment of such an account would be an “act of good faith” and responsibility. “Although creating [...]
WASHINGTON – Police in Baltimore, MD are conducting a manhunt looking for one of their own Saturday night. An arrest warrant has been issued for Officer Gahiji A. Tshamba for last week’s murder of an unarmed marine outside a Baltimore nightclub. Thirty-two year-old Tyrone Brown who had served two tours of duty in Iraq was [...]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Al-Qaida-linked militants beheaded three loggers in the Philippines in apparent retaliation for government offensives in the country’s south, security officials said Sunday. The killings were carried out as the country celebrated its 112th Independence Day, the latest in a series of terror acts by the Abu Sayyaf insurgency to mark the [...]
Newsweek: To white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and family—while remaking the religious right in her own image. Another memoirist might prefer to keep such matters private, but Sarah Palin is not another memoirist. In Going Rogue: An American Life, Palin describes, perhaps for the first time in the [...]
Jerusalem Post: Iran’s nuclear chief says his country will begin construction of a new uranium enrichment plant by March of next year, a defiant announcement days after the UN approved tougher sanctions. Ali Akbar Salehi is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying construction will start by the end of the Iranian calendar [...]
Agent allegedly helped Mabhouh killers obtain fake German passport. Jerusalem Post: BERLIN – A spokesman for the federal public prosecutor told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday that Poland had arrested an intelligence officer involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. According to the spokesman, Germany’s top prosecutor has issued an [...]
Fox News: Bubba is back and now he’s got a Tea Party favorite in his crosshairs. After helping lead candidates in Pennsylvania and Arkansas to unexpected victories in recent weeks, former President Bill Clinton is now hitting the campaign trail in Nevada to help vulnerable Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid overcome Republican nominee Sharron Angle. [...]
Agencie France Presse: The euro is set to sink to parity with the dollar in 2011 because of the slow pace of economic recovery in Europe, if it has not broken up by then, a consultancy predicted Friday. In a quarterly report on global economic prospects the London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) [...]
New York Times: Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits. For biologists, the genome has yielded one insightful surprise after another. But the primary goal of the $3 billion Human Genome Project — [...]
RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) – The record will show it was a tie, but it was hardly that. One found renewed confidence; the other will feel the heat. The United States and England played to a 1-1 draw Saturday night in their World Cup opener, with the Americans rallying when Clint Dempsey scored on a [...]
ABC News: Bill Engle is outside, sweating in work clothes while he oversees renovations to his colonial house in Mérida, Mexico. It sits on a street dubbed “Gringo Gulch,” a pretty row of baby blue, violet, and mustard facades where expatriates outnumber Mexicans. It is not the climate,” says Mr. Engle, explaining why he moved [...]
LANGLEY, Ark. (AP) – The search for nearly two dozen people who disappeared after flash floods swept through a popular campground went from desperate to grim on Saturday, after teams that scoured miles of river and rugged wilderness found just two bodies. The last time someone was found alive was late Friday morning, hours after [...]
