Five-year-old Jarneshia Broussard was eating her lunch, a hot dog and beans, with her kindergarten class Tuesday when she heard a loud “pop” in the Ross Elementary School cafeteria. pp Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com The little girl at first thought a light blew out. Then she recognized the [...]
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The Daily Mail: Only a quarter of Republicans in critical caucus-state Iowa believe that President Obama was born in the U.S. A massive 48 per cent of GOP voters in the Hawkeye State, who said that they will vote in the first caucus of the presidential election race, said they doubted the President’s place of [...]
UPDATE: Fox News: A White House plane with first lady Michelle Obama onboard aborted a landing Monday after narrowly avoiding a collision with a 200-ton military cargo jet. The Washington Post first reported on the aborted landing at Andrews Air Force Base due to an air traffic controller allowing the two aircraft to come too [...]
The Hill: The U.S. Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it will dismiss a major climate-change case, with justices indicating that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rather than the courts should address greenhouse-gas emissions from major power plants. “Congress set up the EPA to promulgate standards for emissions, and the relief you’re seeking seems to me to [...]
ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, April 18, 2011) — Arlington National Cemetery officials told congressmen that past faulty management practices are being fixed, including employee training and automation of record-keeping systems. In a hearing before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations April 14, 2011, Kathryn A. Condon, executive director of the Army [...]
Egypt and Iran are preparing to resume diplomatic relations and appoint ambassadors to end 30 years of hostility, in a sign of Cairo’s shift away from America and the West after the February revolution. The Iranian foreign ministry on Tuesday confirmed that moves were under way to appoint its first ambassador to Cairo since 1980 [...]
Florida’s unemployment agency director has asked for an investigation into a federally funded jobs agency that is giving 6,000 superhero capes to the jobless. Workforce Central Florida spent more than $14,000 on red capes as part of a media campaign to raise awareness of its services, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The jobs agency plans to [...]
WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is being moved from the Quantico brig where he is currently being held to the prison at Ft. Leavenworth in Kansas, according to the Pentagon. The Associated Press reported that the move is connected to criticism about how the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, has treated the Army soldier. But [...]
Politico: Donald Trump sent Nancy Pelosi warm wishes when she was sworn in as House Speaker in January 2007, praising her as “the best” in a personal note. Trump, who’s now mulling a Republican run for president, penned the note on a copy of a New York Times article that chronicled Pelosi’s swearing-in, and wrote, [...]
USA Today: South Carolina state Sen. Harvey Peeler was at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in January when the human resources director of one of the area’s major employers, textile manufacturer Hamrick Mills, told him the company was having trouble hiring some people from the unemployment rolls. “They said they had potential employees that would [...]
