Toronto Sun: TORONTO — The addition of sound cannons to the arsenal available to security forces managing G20 protests comes as no surprise to groups planning to demonstrate in Toronto at next month’s summit. They say it’s just one more signal amid an unprecedented security operation that dissenting voices are being muzzled. “We were expecting [...]
Watch the Meltdown on Gizmodo Fox News: As Steve Jobs took the stage in California for the company’s annual developer conference, the Apple faithful collectively held their breath — what would the tech guru show off today? Many details of Apple’s next-generation iPhone were already widely known, but expectations were nonetheless sky-high for the fourth-generation [...]
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ABC News: By more than a 2-to-1 margin, Americans support the pursuit of criminal charges in the nation’s worst oil spill , with increasing numbers calling it a major environmental disaster. Eight in 10 criticize the way BP’s handled it – and more people give the federal government’s response a negative rating than did the [...]
Politico: In the world of political journalism, it’s the end of an era: Helen Thomas has retired just months shy of her 90th birthday. The longtime White House journalist has covered every president since Dwight Eisenhower and broke several barriers for female journalists but stepped down from her latest role — a columnist for Hearst [...]
Washington Times: President Obama’s choice to be the next director of national intelligence supported the view that Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq sent weapons and documents to Syria in the weeks before the 2003 U.S. invasion. Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and current undersecretary [...]
Washington Times: An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border. Roger Barnett, 64, [...]
Jerusalem Post: Israeli Navy commando killed five armed Palestinian frogmen early Monday morning in the Nahal Aza area. The terrorists were wearing diving suits and were heavily armed, IDF spokesperson said. The terrorists were trying to swim to an Israeli city along the Mediterranean coast, when they were detected by the commandos and a firefight [...]
Making bad history…. Bloomberg: President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.†The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product and the government’s total debt, which rose [...]
Jerusalem Post: The Egyptian authorities over the weekend turned down a request by Arab physicians to bring aid into the Gaza Strip. Hamas, meanwhile, announced that it won’t allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit as a condition for the lifting of the blockade on the Gaza [...]
People: Talk about an odd couple: conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh and outspoken gay-marriage advocate Elton John. But, according to a News Corporation (which owns Fox News) wire report, the Rocket Man, 63, serenaded the 400 guests into the wee hours Saturday night to celebrate the marriage of Limbaugh, 59, to Kathryn Rogers, 33, in [...]
Picture not of actual incident Fox NY: DARIEN, Conn. – Police said a naked man “yelling that he was Jesus” was the catalyst for a five-vehicle accident on I-95 North in Darien, Conn., that injured three and slowed traffic for around six hours. Darien Police Sgt. Jeremiah Marron said police responded to reports Saturday that [...]
