New York Times: NEW ORLEANS — Six current and former New Orleans police officers have been charged in connection with the killing of unarmed civilians on the Danziger Bridge in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina, federal law enforcement officials announced here on Tuesday. Four of them — former Officer Robert Faulcon, Sgt. Kenneth Bowen, [...]
Kongsvinger, Norway CCTV catches a moose entering (0:34) and exiting (1:55) a grocery store in Norway.
Fox News: The campaign to move the 2011 All-Star Game out of Phoenix to protest Arizona’s immigration law heated up this week, with some of baseball’s superstars threatening to sit it out and demonstrators trying to deliver thousands of petitions to Commissioner Bud Selig. The increased pressure coincided with this year’s All-Star Game, which was [...]
The Hill: Senate Republicans have delayed the Judiciary Committee vote on Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Supreme Court for one week. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the panel, said the move is a protest against her record on military recruiting while serving as Harvard law school dean, her lack of judicial experience [...]
Press TV: Shahram Amiri, the Iranian academic who was abducted by US and Saudi forces last year, has held an exclusive interview with Press TV, after his “escape” from US forces. In the interview, he dismissed US claims that he has been in the US on his own desire. “My abduction is a detailed story. [...]
Financial Times: Robert Gibbs, Barack Obama’s chief spokesman, got into hot water this week for daring to speak the truth – that the Democrats could lose control of the House of Representatives in November. But it could be even worse than that. Contrary to pretty much every projection until now, Democratic control of the Senate [...]
Regular commenter Grizz sent in this home video that he shot during his winter vacation at a rented home in Yosemite…
Only known photo of La Barbie And the narco-insurgency beat goes on… CUERNAVACA, Mexico (AP) – Three dead bodies have been found hanging from pedestrian bridges in the central Mexican city of Cuernavaca.
Politico: Education for Democrats these days is an education itself — a lesson in how dysfunctional this White House and Congress can be on domestic policy. Finding $10 billion in a multitrillion-dollar budget to avert threatened teacher layoffs — months before the midterm elections — would seem a shared goal for the party. Instead, it’s [...]
The Hill: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) supports a legislative process to clarify the rules surrounding broadband services after an appeals court decision in April thrust the former regulatory framework into uncertainty, his office said on Tuesday. Hoyer believes lawmakers “have the authority on this critical matter,†Hoyer’s spokeswoman Katie Grant told The Hill. [...]
Politico: A spokesman for a group of tea party activists on Tuesday said that they are taking offense to a resolution the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is set to approve that condemns the grassroots movement as “racist.†“For the NAACP to accuse the tea parties of racism is insulting to the [...]
The Upshot: Though Congress still hasn’t settled the ultimate fate of the the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on military service openly gay soldiers, one thing is clear: The military won’t be establishing gay-segregated facilities to allay some service members’ qualms about sharing bathrooms and showers with openly gay comrades in arms. The Pentagon [...]
NBC: Oakland’s police chief is making some dire claims about what his force will and will not respond to if layoffs go as planned. Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you [...]
