Politico: Authorities in Portland just said former Vice President Al Gore won’t face charges in connection with a massage therapist who alleged he groped her and sexually abused her a few years back. ABC News: Former Vice President Al Gore did not commit acts of sexual harassment “appropriate for criminal prosecution,” according to office of [...]
Newsweek: In the aftermath of the saga that thrust Shirley Sherrod into the news cycle and spurred a national discussion about race, the former USDA employee has said she “definitely will sue†Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger at BigGovernment.com who posted the original edited video taken widely out of context. Breitbart talked with NEWSWEEK’s Daniel [...]
Anderson Cooper apologizes for not challenging Shirley Sherrod last week when she labeled Andrew Breitbart a “racist” who wants to “go back to the days of slavery” on his show. The CNN host then explored the latest controversy involving her husband, Charles Sherrod, and racial remarks he made at the University of Virginia, as well [...]
Politico: A House ethics subcommittee has completed its investigation into allegations of wrongdoing by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), and could announce its next steps before lawmakers leave town for the August recess Friday, according to sources familiar with the process. The committee is in discussions with Waters about the case, in which investigators looked at [...]
Fox News: The investigative panel looking at alleged violations against House rules by New York Rep. Charlie Rangel recommended a “reprimand” for the longtime lawmaker, Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, a member of the panel said Friday. A reprimand is the most lenient of the three, formal modes of discipline in the House. The other two [...]
Ad Age: NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Unilever’s Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors. Starting next week, consumers who buy one of the GPS-implanted detergent boxes will be surprised [...]
Fox News: A group of Republican senators has written to top immigration officials in the Obama administration asking them to reveal whether large-scale plans are under way to provide a so-called non-legislative version of amnesty. The lawmakers cite an 11-page draft document written by staff to the director of the Citizenship and Immigration Service that [...]
Mediaite: At a White House event in support of extending unemployment benefits for those who have lost their jobs recently, President Obama was joined by several Americans who would potentially benefit from the measure after recently losing their jobs. Among them was Leslie Macko, a woman who had lost her job as an aesthetician in [...]
Washington Times: With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many illegal immigrants – what a draft government memo said could be “a non-legislative version of amnesty.” The memo, addressed to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and written by four agency [...]
The Washington Post: The Obama administration has adopted a tougher tone with China in recent weeks as part of a diplomatic balancing act in which the United States welcomes China’s rise in some areas but also confronts Beijing when it butts up against American interests. Faced with a Chinese government increasingly intent on testing U.S. [...]
The New York Times: PUL-I-KUMRI, Afghanistan — Almost unnoticed, this strategic northern province is slipping away from government control. Baghlan Province contains two of the crucial north-south routes in Afghanistan. As night falls on this provincial capital, the city turns dark and silent. The Taliban have decreed that the cellphone signals go down at night [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The recovery lost momentum in the second quarter as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment. Weaker spending by consumers, less growth coming from companies restocking shrunken stockpiles and a bigger drag from the nation’s trade deficits [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month’s record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. In Kabul, police fired weapons into the air Friday to disperse a crowd of angry Afghans [...]
