This photo was taken in 2008 by the mysterious Internet persona known as ‘Raji’ before he oddly went missing. THE New Zealand military has released hundreds of previously classified reports detailing claims of unidentified flying object sightings and alien encounters. The reports, dating from 1954 to 2009, were released today under freedom of information laws [...]
NBC New York: Cops discovered a grisly scene when they were called to check out a report of an “unconscious female” in a suitcase in East Harlem early Wednesday. Follow NBCNewYork on TwitterAuthorities say someone called 911 at about 12:15 a.m. after apparently seeing a foot sticking out of the luggage. Shortly after, responding police [...]
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – A mother was arrested by Orange County deputies after they say she left her 21-year-old disabled son alone at a SeaWorld play area. Rosa Pou, 44, was arrested Monday when a SeaWorld security officer noticed what he thought was an 8-year old child alone for more than an [...]
(Reuters) – Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website’s content. But Google Inc, which operates the second-largest online mobile applications store, has kept more than half a dozen apps available on [...]
Barack Obama leaves for Christmas vacation in Hawaii Washington Post: When the lame-duck session of Congress started more than a month ago, President Obama looked defeated and deflated, publicly acknowledging the “shellacking” his party had taken in the November midterm elections. Now, a six-week session that was expected to reflect a weakened president has turned [...]
Washington Post: Midway through Philip Rucker and Paul Kane’s story about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s transition to minority leader comes an interesting bit of news. The California Democrat, vilified by Republicans in the last election, has turned to director Steven Spielberg for help rebranding House Democrats. Lawmakers say she is consulting marketing experts [...]
Narcoshphere: A small county board in southern California has just ushered in the era of the paramilitarization of the U.S. border by approving plans for a private, $100 million, 1,000-acre military and law enforcement training camp spearheaded by a former Navy Seal sniper who also has done work for the U.S. intelligence community. The Imperial [...]
Fox News: President Obama, preparing to leave Washington after a busy lame-duck session, claimed Wednesday that Congress has not been this productive in decades — arguing that the breakout of bipartisanship is a sign that America’s lawmakers are “not doomed to endless gridlock.” The president called an end-of-year news conference to tout a slew of [...]
The Hill: Alaska’s highest court ruled against Republican Joe Miller’s legal challenge to the results of his Senate contest against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) late Wednesday. The court rejected Miller’s claim that state elections officials improperly counted some 8,300 write-in ballots for Murkowski, effectively ending any hope Miller had of overturning the election result. Wednesday’s [...]
Washington Post: Here’s the funny thing about this month’s lame-duck session of Congress, in which frantic lawmakers have pinballed from tax cuts to “don’t ask, don’t tell” to a nuclear weapons treaty: It’s not supposed to exist. In 1933, historians say, the country ratified a constitutional amendment intended to kill off sessions like this – [...]
Fox News: Congress on Wednesday passed a bill to pay for the health care of first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks after the Senate reached a bipartisan agreement to slash the price tag. The deal lowered the cost of the bill to $4.2 billion — about $2 billion less than an earlier [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama secured another major legislative victory Wednesday with the Senate ratification of a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. An international treaty has never before been voted on in a lame duck session of congress.
Fox News: The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to pay for the health care of first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks after reaching a bipartisan agreement to slash the price tag. The deal lowered the cost of the bill to $4.2 billion — about $2 billion less than an earlier version. [...]
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Bloomberg: Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and billionaire Alexander Lebedev, said it agreed to join forces with WikiLeaks to expose corruption in Russia. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which publishes secret government and corporate documents online, has materials specifically about Russia that haven’t been [...]
Wall Street Journal: Christopher G. Wayne doesn’t look like a typical family-practice doctor. Known to admirers as the “Rock Doc,” he wears his hair spiked, punk style, and festoons himself with chains, bangles and leather bracelets. He uses his upscale Miami Beach home as a production studio for Playboy photo spreads, and his MySpace page [...]
