LOS ANGELES (AP) – CVS Pharmacy Inc. has agreed to pay $75 million in fines for allowing repeated purchases of a key ingredient in the making of methamphetamine in at least five states that also led to a spike in Southern California drug trafficking, authorities said Thursday. The nation’s largest operator of retail pharmacies will [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry has been left reeling after another positive HIV test for a porn actor. The revelation Tuesday led to two of the industry’s biggest companies shutting down production and a scramble to find partners who may have been exposed by the actor, whose identity and gender have [...]
The Hill: The White House is going pink.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) – A federal judge ruled Thursday that a lawsuit by 20 states seeking to void the Obama administration’s health care overhaul can go to trial, saying he wants hear additional arguments from both sides over whether the law is unconstitutional. In a written ruling, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson said it needs [...]
Fox News: A privacy watchdog’s freedom of information request has revealed a government memo encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them. Thanks to the request, the government released a handful of documents, including a May 2008 memo [...]
The Hill: Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP. This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found that 44 percent of likely voters say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme elements, whereas [...]
Wall Street Journal: NEW YORK—The dollar fell sharply against a broad range of currencies Thursday as prospects for Asian economic growth contrasted with the likely need for more stimulus in the U.S. A monetary-tightening move overnight by the Monetary Authority of Singapore accelerated the dollar’s slide, knocking the greenback to long-term lows against rivals in [...]
GALLUP, N.M. (AP) – Investigators are looking into the discovery of what is reported as a decapitated body last week near the Red Rock chapter house in northwestern New Mexico. An FBI spokesman won’t confirm details of the crime, saying only that an investigation is continuing. The Gallup Independent, citing “several people near the scene” [...]
Washington Post: The federal government’s pressure on lenders Wednesday to fix the paperwork problems plaguing foreclosures left unaddressed a far greater potential threat facing the financial system and the U.S. economy. Beyond sloppy documents, the foreclosure debacle has exposed one of Wall Street’s little-known practices: For more than a decade, big lenders sold millions of [...]
A forensic expert looks at a bag containing a human head with a written message on it outside the newspaper Frontera in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – A rash of decapitations and other gruesome killings have hit Tijuana since Mexican President Felipe Calderon visited the border city last week and called it a [...]
New York Times: BRUSSELS — The United States is helping senior Taliban leaders attend initial peace talks with the Afghan government in Kabul because military officials and diplomats want to take advantage of any possibility of political reconciliation, Obama administration and NATO officials said Thursday. Even as top American officials cautioned that they are not [...]
Mediaite: Yonni Barrios, the Chilean miner whose extramarital affair was revealed to the world (and his family!) when both his wife and his longtime mistress showed up at a vigil toting his picture, was rescued this afternoon. Barrios, who was nicknamed ‘Dr. House’ by his fellow miners because of his first aid abilities, appeared on [...]
