NYTimes Bob Guccione, who founded Penthouse magazine in the 1960s and built a pornographic media empire that broke taboos, outraged the guardians of taste and made billions before drowning in a slough of bad investments and Internet competition, died Wednesday in Plano, Tex., The Associated Press reported. He was 79.
NYTimes WASHINGTON — Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accused of murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cases are beginning to fall apart, burdened by a legal obstacle of the government’s own making. In the most recent and [...]
KVOA. TUCSON – The owner of the two business locations raided by ICE today was arrested on charges of smuggling methamphetamine and money laundering. Luis Esquivel, listed as the owner of M and M Truck Boutique on the Better Business Bureau’s website, was arrested today by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. ICE spokesperson Vincent Picard [...]
KVOA.COM. Oct 20, 2010 12:57 PM NOGALES – CBP officers seized more than 800 pounds of pot in two commercial train cars this weekend. Customs and Border Protection agents were suspicious of a boxcar traveling with a commercial train that entered the United States through the DeConcini Port of Entry on Oct. 15. CBP officials [...]
Updated: 10/20/10 1:37 PM EDT Congressional Republicans planning an assault on the Obama administration’s environmental record aim to turn Lisa Jackson into public enemy No. 1. On the campaign trail, Republicans have adopted the Environmental Protection Agency as a favorite symbol of the White House’s regulatory overreach. And behind the scenes in Washington, GOP staffers [...]
Associated Press Oct. 20, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO – Federal officials haven’t ruled out taking legal action if California voters approve a ballot initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana use in the state, President Barack Obama’s drug czar said Wednesday. In a phone interview with The Associated Press, Director of National Drug Control Policy Gil Kerlikowske [...]
guardian.co.uk. Wednesday 20 October 2010 18.33 BST If confirmation were needed that the Tea Party movement is motivated – at least out west – by anger over illegal immigration and a desire to turn America into a closed fortress, then it was provided in Las Vegas. In a packed saloon on the edges of town [...]
Published: October 20, 2010 RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian leadership, near despair about attaining a negotiated agreement with Israel on a two-state solution, is increasingly focusing on how to get international bodies and courts to declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. The idea, being discussed in both formal [...]
WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:08pm EDT (Reuters) – The United States plans to sell up to $60 billion worth of military aircraft to Saudi Arabia, the U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday in a move designed to shore up a region overshadowed by Iran. Andrew Shapiro, the assistant secretary of state for political-military [...]
guardian.U.K. Three weeks before a man claiming to be an al-Qaida turncoat blew himself up at an Afghanistan base, killing seven CIA agents, the agency was warned that he might still have been plotting against the US, an investigation has revealed. Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year-old doctor who had been recruited by Jordanian [...]
AP.10/20/2010 7:46:11 AM ET NEW YORK — A former Secret Service agent says in his new book that he nearly shot President Lyndon B. Johnson hours after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. In “The Kennedy Detail,” Gerald Blaine recalls standing guard outside the Washington home of newly sworn-in President Johnson in the early hours of Nov. [...]
TUCSON – A border patrol officer who admitted to kicking, punching and striking a Mexican national in Nogales in 2006 was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. Edward C. Moreno, 41, pleaded guilty in June to depriving the civil rights of Mexican national. He was sentenced to 12 months supervised release, four months house arrest, [...]
Oct 20, 2010 5:52 AM PARIS (AP) – Protesters opposed to raising France’s retirement age are blocking or disrupting access to airports in Paris and around France. The ADP Paris airport authority says protesters are blocking the main road leading to one of two terminals at Orly Airport. Unions are also staging a protest Wednesday [...]
Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 15 mins ago KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan has released full preliminary results from last month’s parliamentary election, throwing out more than 20 percent of ballots because of fraud. Election commission chairman Fazel Ahmad Manawi says about 1.3 million votes were disqualified out of 5.6 million. That means about 23 [...]
OCTOBER 20, 2010, 10:02 A.M. ET Wells Fargo (WFC: 24.37 ,-0.20 ,-0.81%) weighed in on Wednesday with a stronger-than-expected 3.2% increase in third-quarter profits as the banking giant’s credit losses continue to ease. However, the San Francisco-based lender’s stock took a 2% hit in the premarkets as its revenue slumped 7.1% to $20.87 billion, narrowly [...]
Associated Press TYLER, Texas – Former President George W. Bush says he tried to leave the presidency better than it was when he started, or at least equal to how he found it. Bush spoke to a sold-out crowd in East Texas late Tuesday as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series of the University of [...]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS 10/20/2010 13:06 LONDON (AP) — A British court on Wednesday sentenced a Saudi prince to at least 20 years in prison for beating and strangling one of his servants at a swank British hotel. Justice David Bean sentenced Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud to life in prison with a 20 [...]
CNSNews.com) – The U.S. government does not have “effective control” of 1,081 miles of the 1,954-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for securing the border. “Border miles under effective control” is a metric DHS uses in its annual performance reports [...]
By Jennifer Griffin Two weeks ago Afghan officials intercepted a shipment of Iranian weapons en route to the Taliban in the Afghan province of Nimroz. “The police chief of Nimroz announced that they had intercepted a couple tons of Iranian explosives marked as food and toys,” said Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, who [...]
By REUTERS The Canadian police have arrested a suspect in the assassination of a Hamas militant in Dubai but offered no information on the matter, the police chief of Dubai, Dahi Khalfan Tamim, said Tuesday. Assassins killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his Dubai hotel room in January. Israeli intelligence agents were widely blamed for the killing, [...]