CAIRO (AP)- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatens in a new audio tape to kill French citizens to avenge their country’s support for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a new law that will ban face-covering Muslim veils. In the tape obtained by satellite television station Al-Jazeera and then posted on its website on Wednesday, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Lime Group, whose LimeWire software has allowed people to share songs and other files over the Internet, received a federal injunction Tuesday to disable key parts of its service. The privately owned company and its founder, Mark Gorton, have been wrestling in court with the Recording Industry Association of America, the [...]
Fox Illinois: SPRINGFIELD – Illinois may not be finished investigating those late military ballots. Members of the House Elections Committee say they’re considering formal hearings into how and why 36 counties missed the deadline to send ballots to deployed servicemen and other overseas voters. State Rep. Dan Brady, R-Bloomington, said there is clearly something wrong [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina will be released from the hospital Wednesday and is preparing to resume a full campaign schedule, a day after she was sidelined by an infection related to her recent reconstructive surgery for breast cancer. Fiorina’s campaign said the former Hewlett-Packard Co. chief executive has been successfully [...]
Washington Times: Saying there’s no way Democrats can keep control of the House, Ireland’s largest bookie on Wednesday said it has already paid off all bettors who wagered the GOP would capture the chamber. “In our opinion this race is well and truly over with nothing short of a miracle stopping the Republicans taking down [...]
NY Daily News: A naked, nasty Charlie Sheen was up to his old tricks on Tuesday: booze, blow and a bizarre rampage inside a $1,000-a-night Plaza hotel suite, police sources said. AC_FL_RunContent(‘codebase’,'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0′,’width’,’485′,’height’,’350′,’title’,'Video Player’,'src’,'http://www.nydailynews.com/swf/video_player/vp_485_single_06092010′, ‘FlashVars’, ‘embedCode=54ODVzMTq5DwfrWeTT8Sw7FbBI_eiP6R’, ‘quality’,'high’, ‘play’, ‘true’, ‘loop’, ‘true’, ‘allowFullScreen’, ‘true’, ‘pluginspage’,'http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash’,'movie’,'http://www.nydailynews.com/swf/video_player/vp_485_single_06092010′ ); Cops took the hard-partying, hooker-loving star for a psychiatric evaluation after [...]
USA Today: The just-retired Marine Corps commandant says he doubts the U.S. military can withdraw from Afghanistan’s volatile south by a July 2011 deadline set by President Obama for the start of force reductions. In an interview before his retirement Friday, Gen. James Conway said troops may be able to be pulled from elsewhere in [...]
Fox News: Military voters from the land of Lincoln could be shut out of the midterm election after the Justice Department reached an agreement with Illinois that gave the state “a pass” for violating federal election law, an advocacy group warned Monday. The Justice Department hammered out the court agreement Friday addressing the failure of [...]
Los Angeles Times: Heavy smoking in middle age more than doubles the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia later in life, according to one of the first long-term studies to examine the issue.
Violeta Aylward, an agency nurse working for the NHS, was caught on camera turning off the ventilator keeping quadriplegic Jamie Merrett alive. The 37-year-old, left paralysed from the neck down following a car accident in 2002, had a bedside camera set up at his home after becoming concerned about the standard of care he was [...]
New York Times: At a time when savers complain that they are earning almost no interest from their bank accounts, some investors on Monday bought United States government bonds that effectively had negative rate of return. Bizarre as it sounds, that is correct. In an auction of a special kind of five-year Treasury bond, investors [...]
