NEW YORK (AP) – Jay Leno and David Letterman are in the twilight of their days as late-night TV kings, and it’s not clear that any late-night comic will wield that kind of broad influence again. Late-night ratings sank over the past three months, despite the attention and extraordinary television created over the winter by [...]
Los Angeles Times: The Spanish colonial revival house in Brentwood where Marilyn Monroe died of a sleeping-pill overdose in 1962 is for sale for $3.6 million, according to a realty website. The rambling four-bedroom, three-bathroom house on 5th Helena Drive features thick walls, casement windows, polished concrete and terra cotta tile floors, original wood beamed [...]
BERLIN (AP) – A survey shows that German investor confidence has dropped for the third consecutive month amid fears about Europe’s debt crisis and its implications for the economy. The ZEW institute said Tuesday that its confidence index, which measures market experts’ economic outlook for the next six months, was down 7.5 points in July [...]
Haaretz: The IDF is preparing for the forceful interdiction of a Libyan sponsored ship allegedly headed for the Gaza Strip, despite lingering criticism over the handling of the interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla on May 31 in which nine people were killed, military sources told Haaretz yesterday. An internal military probe into the incident released [...]
The Missing Nuclear Scientists Times: Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Beirut —An Iranian nuclear scientist who Tehran claims was kidnapped by the United States has sought refuge at the Pakistani embassy’s Iranian interests section in Washington and is seeking to return home to Iran, Pakistani authorities said Tuesday. Shahram Amiri 6 Jun 2010 First Video [...]
Fox News: The White House admitted today several Democratic governors complained about the Justice Department lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law – saying the legal fight is angering their constituents and distracting from federal efforts to boost the sluggish economy. Reports of the confrontation first surfaced in the New York Times. White House Press Secretary Robert [...]
Washington Post: Public confidence in President Obama has hit a new low, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Four months before midterm elections that will define the second half of his term, nearly six in 10 voters say they lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country, and [...]
Jerusalem Post: Concerns are mounting in the defense establishment that Hizbullah may be digging tunnels from Lebanon to Israel to attack a border community or IDF outpost. While the IDF has been worried that Hizbullah will try to kidnap soldiers – as it has done twice in the past – the latest fears surround the [...]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Investigators found an unexploded suicide vest with ball bearings in a disco hall in Uganda’s capital, suggesting that militants planned another attack, officials said Tuesday. Four “foreign” suspects were arrested in connection with the find. The discovery of a suicide vest in a suburb of Kampala on Monday was consistent with [...]
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Politico: Robert Gibbs says he merely “stated the obvious†in predicting Republicans could win control of the House in November. But Democratic strategists are privately grumbling that the White House press secretary gift-wrapped a bludgeon and handed it to the GOP. “It was the dumbest thing in the world to do,†one major Democratic money-bundler [...]
The Hill: The Senate sponsors of a sweeping climate change bill are drafting a scaled-back version focused on electric power plants in a bid to salvage a role for greenhouse gas curbs in the Senate energy debate. Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) this week will start circulating a draft of their narrowed [...]
ABC News: First Lady Michelle Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one day before the nation’s largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement. The nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization will vote on [...]
