Daily Bitch: Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to [...]
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SHANGHAI — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States of hypocrisy during a visit to the World Expo in Shanghai on Friday, two days after host China yielded to international pressure to back new nuclear sanctions against Tehran. “How can they have the right to impose pressure on other countries who are willing to [...]
The Hill: Lawmakers are scrambling to ensure that BP repays the government for the Gulf Coast oil spill amid concerns that taxpayers could be partly on the hook. The payment question has become a dominant concern of Washington policymakers as the cost of response and cleanup for the spill multiplies with each passing day. With [...]
Politico: The Obama administration’s latest anti-BP volley is a call on the oil giant to pay up big time — not just for economic damages from the Gulf spill but also for lost wages of workers idled by the president’s drilling moratorium. From a public relations perspective, it may be a satisfying stick-it-to-’em approach to [...]
Times Online: BP is preparing to defer payment of its next dividend to shareholders by placing the money in an escrow account until the full scale of the company’s liabilities from the Gulf of Mexico disaster can be determined, The Times has learnt. BP board members are discussing a plan that would see the expected [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – BP’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has been summoned to a meeting with President Barack Obama next Wednesday to answer questions about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, an official letter said. Svanberg, a Swede, was invited to the meeting on June 16 with other company officials, but the White House did not demand [...]
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot told police investigators that he knows the location of the body of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, the chief of Peru’s criminal police said. “He let slip that he knew the place where this person was buried,” Gen. Cesar Guardia told The Associated Press. [...]
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A 16-year-old sailor on a round-the-world journey was adrift in the frigid southern Indian Ocean on Friday as rescue boats headed toward her yacht, damaged by 30-foot waves that knocked out her communications and prompted her to set off a distress signal. After a tense 20 hours of silence, a search [...]
Internet went down yesterday. Obviously, just powering down the modem didn’t do it, and someone had to come out. Crazy luck, crazy timing. Onward…
Politico: The top official at the American Civil Liberties Union seems to be losing patience with President Barack Obama and his administration. Speaking at a conference of liberal activists Wednesday morning, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero didn’t mince his words about the administration’s handling of civil liberties issues. “I’m going to start provocatively … I’m [...]
The Hill: An official flushed a white powder from a plastic bag labeled “Anthrax†down a toilet at the Capitol while hundreds of tourists milled around nearby. Capitol Police, who heard about Saturday’s incident at the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) only later that day, said that instead of breaching security in this way, the tour [...]
Politico: Republican appropriators slammed the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday for leaving Congress on the sidelines as it seeks to enforce net neutrality and more heavily regulate Internet providers. Some of the GOP members on the House Appropriations subcommittee that controls the FCC’s purse strings stressed to Chairman Julius Genachowski that Congress should take to [...]
Times Online: The UN Security Council today imposed its toughest sanctions yet on Iran in what could be its last chance to prevent a defiant Tehran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Both China and Russia joined the 12-vote majority in favour of the sanctions in the 15-nation council, but Lebanon abstained and Brazil and Turkey [...]
