The Hill: President Obama sought to promote his administration’s accomplishments on the economy this past week after spending it mired in the controversy over Shirley Sherrod. Obama made remarks early Friday afternoon touting the Wall Street reform legislation and unemployment insurance extension he signed into law this week, part of a three-pronged strategy to bolster [...]
Daily Mail: A Saudi man has been chained in a basement apartment for more than six years because his father believes he is possessed by an evil female genie. ‘When he has fits he has convulsions and his entire body twists and his eyes become completely white,’ said the father of the 29-year-old man who [...]
The Hill: MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann tweeted on Friday that Comcast wants to make his network “more liberal†when it completes its merger with NBC Universal. The $30 billion merger is currently under review at the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). “Yeah, they want to go more liberal,†Olbermann tweeted in response [...]
Chicago Sun-Times: $$$$$: Happy Birthday, buddy! Sneed hears real estate mogul Neil Bluhm is tossing a private birthday party here for President Obama, who turns 49 on Aug. 4. • The shocker: The dinner invite to the Barack bash at Bluhm’s home requires a $30,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee! • The stunner: Obama [...]
Politico: Here’s the optimistic case: The embarrassment of the Shirley Sherrod story — with its toxic convergence of partisan combat and media recklessness — will be a tipping point. It will remind journalists and politicians alike that personal reputations and professional credibility are at stake, and a bit more restraint and responsibility are in order. [...]
Daily Mail: A gay priest sex scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in Italy today after a weekly news magazine released details of a shock investigation it had carried out. Using hidden cameras, a journalist from Panorama magazine – owned by Italian Prime Minister and media baron Silvio Berlusconi – filmed three priests as they [...]
Fox News: The mystery behind a vanishing Facebook post by Sarah Palin that railed against a planned Ground Zero mosque has been cleared up. She fell victim to a “social experiment.†Facebook’s terms of service prohibit users from posting content that is hateful, threatening, incites violence or contains nudity or graphic violence. But that’s not [...]
Cybercast News Service: The Obama administration is backing legislation that includes regulations requiring U.S. businesses to provide to the government data about employee pay as it relates to the sex, race and national origin of employees. In an orchestrated effort that included a statement by President Barack Obama and an event at the White House [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than $20 billion in domestic spending the House had tacked on to its $60 billion bill to fund President Barack Obama’s troop surge in Afghanistan. Instead, the Senate returned to the House a measure limited chiefly to war funding, foreign [...]
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — North Korea on Friday threatened the United States and South Korea with a “physical response” to planned weekend naval exercises as tensions with the communist nation rose in the aftermath of the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on the North. In Vietnam for a Southeast Asian regional security forum, [...]
US Carmaker To Be Debt-Free Next Year Financial Times: Ford Motor said on Friday that it expected to be debt-free, net of cash reserves, by the end of next year as its operating performance continued to improve. Detroit’s number-two carmaker reported its fifth profitable quarter in a row and its highest profit in six years, [...]
Market Watch: LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — A top Chinese central bank official suggested switching away from the U.S. dollar as a benchmark for the yuan’s foreign-exchange rate, switching instead to a basket of currencies, according to remarks published Thursday. In comments posted to the People’s Bank of China Web site, the central bank’s Deputy Gov. [...]
