CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) – Gunmen stormed two homes and massacred 13 young partygoers in the latest large-scale attack in this violent border city, even as a new government strategy seeks to restore order with social programs and massive police deployments. Attackers in two vehicles pulled up to the houses in a lower-middle-class neighborhood late [...]
Vipul Sharma, a software engineer and U.S. patent holder, works at the leading edge of computer system innovation. He’s also subject to the bureaucratic pitfalls of U.S. immigration law. Sharma, 30, uses artificial intelligence tools and applies them to Internet user data to try to predict patterns in online behavior. It’s a new field called [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Like his neighbors, Claude Rwaganje pays taxes on his income and taxes on his cars. His children have gone to Portland’s public schools. He’s interested in the workings of Maine’s largest city, which he has called home for 13 years. There’s one vital difference, though: Rwaganje isn’t a U.S. citizen and [...]
The first shots sailed past Iraqi police officers at a checkpoint. They took off in three squad cars, their lights flashing. It was early in the Iraq war, Dec. 22, 2004, and it turned out that the shots came not from insurgents or criminals. They were fired by an American private security company named Custer [...]
Fox News: In a searing criticism, South Dakota Sen. John Thune likened the Obama administration to a science project gone wrong as he used the Republicans’ weekly radio address to urge voters to back a new kind of change this November. “The Obama experiment has failed,” Thune said in the address. With both parties shaping [...]
BBC The event was marked with a flypast of an aircraft carrying SpaceShip Two. The vehicle has been designed to take fee-paying tourists on trips to the edge of space and back. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson – whose Virgin group has backed the venture – said the first passenger trip should take place within [...]
The TelegraphU.K. Published: 6:23AM BST 23 Oct 2010 With a theory that will alarm Business Secretary Vince Cable, Dr Paul Crosthwaite of Cardiff University has argued that bankers and other investors took on excessive risks not just to make money but for the “desire” and “exhilaration” of destruction. “For its participants and speculators alike, the [...]
washingtonpost Saturday, October 23, 2010; 12:07 AM NPR faced fierce public and political reaction – most of it strongly negative – in the wake of its firing of commentator Juan Williams for comments he made on a Fox News program earlier in the week. Even NPR’s own staff expressed exasperation at the decision during a [...]
NYTimes October 22, 2010 The reports in the archive disclosed by WikiLeaks offer an incomplete, yet startlingly graphic portrait of one of the most contentious issues in the Iraq war — how many Iraqi civilians have been killed and by whom. The reports make it clear that most civilians, by far, were killed by other [...]
NYTimes On Dec. 22, 2006, American military officials in Baghdad issued a secret warning: The Shiite militia commander who had orchestrated the kidnapping of officials from Iraq’s Ministry of Higher Education was now hatching plans to take American soldiers hostage. What made the warning especially worrying were intelligence reports saying that the Iraqi militant, Azhar [...]
TheIndepedentUK Friday, 22 October 2010 Efforts to free a nuclear-powered submarine were under way today after it ran aground in shallow waters. HMS Astute was on sea trials when the rudder of the vessel is thought to have become stuck on a shingle bank on the west coast of Scotland at around 8am today. The [...]
October 22, 2010 | 10:10 Newsbusters Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday’s “Ed Show” actually said he prevented a worldwide depression. When he did, the host of the program didn’t even bat an eye (video follows with transcript and commentary, h/t Hot Air): HARRY REID, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: Nevada, for 20 years, was at [...]
KVOA. NOGALES – Customs and Border Protection officers arrested an elderly woman with nearly three pounds of cocaine strapped to her body Tuesday. KVOA CBP says officers working the Morley Pedestrian Gate in Nogales stopped a 76-year-old woman walking into the U.S. for a day of shopping when an officer became suspicious. An officer referred [...]
KING, N.C. – The Christian flag is everywhere in the small city of King: flying in front of barbecue joints and hair salons, stuck to the bumpers of trucks, hanging in windows and emblazoned on T-shirts. The relatively obscure emblem has become omnipresent because of one place it can’t appear: flying above a war memorial [...]
WashingtonExaminer Imagine that the price of food in America was prone to volatile price increases of 50 percent or more in a given year. Now imagine that while people struggled to afford food, government bureaucrats went around setting limits on how much food some American farmers can grow, while radical anti-obesity crusaders sued other farmers [...]
Associated Press Published October 22, 2010 SEATTLE — When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters’ doors, she’s not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it’s a risk to advertise to strangers that she’s here illegally — but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election. The [...]
USAToday Couples often ask me how frequently they should be having sex, and, until recently, I’ve always responded that there’s no one right answer. After all, a couple’s sex life is affected by so many different factors: age, lifestyle, each partner’s health and natural libido and, of course, the quality of their overall relationship to [...]
