Sky News: Britons travelling to France and Germany have been told they may face a high threat from terror attacks, following a US warning for its citizens to be vigilant while in Europe. Americans living in or visiting Europe have been told to take more security precautions. This advice is one step below the formal [...]
The Arizona Republic: Less than a month from the midterm congressional elections, Democrats’ hopes of holding back a Republican surge remain dim. Polls indicate that many incumbent Democrats around the country remain locked in difficult races, their popularity dragged down by high unemployment and an increasingly unpopular president. Democrats had hoped that primary victories by [...]
Here’s the script, if you’d like to read it. I have not, yet. Here’s the website.
New York Times: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is playing a larger and more directly partisan role in this year’s elections than it is known to have played in any previous American campaign. The news late Thursday that the company, whose holdings include the Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child’s relationship with one estranged parent can be poisoned by the other. There’s broad agreement that this sometimes occurs, usually [...]
New York (AP) – -A veteran CBS Radio News correspondent was arrested early Saturday on drug charges after police searched his Northwest Washington home, and found marijuana plants growing in his yard, authorities said. Police arrested Howard Arenstein and his wife at their home in the 3500 block of T Street and charged them with [...]
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) – Gunmen kidnapped 20 men who were traveling together in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Saturday. A shootout between drug gangs, meanwhile, left 14 people dead in remote town in the northern state of Durango, Mexican newspapers reported. The group of men in Acapulco was visiting from the [...]
Sports Grid: by Dan Fogarty Welcome to the (possible) sports media apocalypse: Tiger Woods reportedly has a sex tape – or rather, someone reportedly made a sex tape of Tiger Woods. Devon James, who was Tiger’s 15th mistress (they’re numbered now? Didn’t know that. Are they numbered by order of appearance in the media, or [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Republicans carry substantial advantages as they move into the final month of the fall campaign, but the resilience of vulnerable Democrats is complicating Republican efforts to lock down enough seats to capture the House and take control of the unsettled electoral battleground. By now, Republicans had hoped to put away [...]
ATHENS, Oct 2 (Reuters) – China offered on Saturday to buy Greek government bonds when Athens resumes issuing, in a show of support for the country whose debt burden pushed the euro zone into crisis and required an international bailout. Premier Wen Jiabao made the offer at the start of a two-day visit to Greece, [...]
PARIS (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of protesters young and old demonstrated in France on Saturday, waving union flags and pressing conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy to drop plans to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. It was the third day of protests in a month. Unions tried a new tactic, scheduling the protest [...]
