CHICAGO (CBS) – At one time, $5 per gallon gas seemed like a farfetched idea, but that is no longer the case. As CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez reports, as of Monday, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the Chicago area is $4.11, compared with $3.71 a month ago, and about [...]
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Fox News: On Wednesday, President Obama will make his case for the fourth increase in the federal debt ceiling since taking office. The $1.9 trillion increase in borrowing power granted Obama in February 2010 is just about exhausted, and the president and his financial team have warned of a worldwide depression if Congress doesn’t extend [...]
Rasmussen: Americans feel more strongly than ever that the lack of immigration law enforcement directly effects poverty in the country. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% of Adults say if immigration laws were enforced, there would be less poverty in America. Only 19% disagree with that assessment, while 20% are not [...]
PARIS (AP) — France’s new ban on Islamic face veils was met with a burst of defiance Monday, as several women appeared veiled in front of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest. France on Monday became the first country to ban the veils anywhere in public, [...]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) – French Special Forces stormed the bunker where Ivory Coast’s strongman Laurent Gbagbo hung on to power Monday, arresting the man whose refusal to hand over the presidency to the election winner left hundreds dead and threatened to re-ignite a civil war in the world’s largest cocoa producer. Gbagbo’s dramatic arrest [...]
Washington Post: A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower court decision that blocked the most contested provisions of Arizona’s immigration law from taking effect. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that a federal judge did not abuse her discretion in blocking provisions of the law [...]
Houston Chronicle: Emblazoned on the red billboard truck that motored through downtown Houston last week was this number: 2,995 — a tally of the people believed slain with guns since the Tucson, Ariz., shooting that killed six people and wounded 13, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The truck started off in New York’s Times Square [...]
OFUNATO, Japan (AP) – There are no cars inside the parking garage at Ofunato police headquarters. Instead, hundreds of dented metal safes, swept out of homes and businesses by last month’s tsunami, crowd the long rectangular building. Any one could hold someone’s life savings. Safes are washing up along the tsunami-battered coast, and police are [...]
Sammy Hagar USA Today: As lead singer of Van Halen, Sammy Hagar once crooned, “I can’t drive 55.” To show how far things have come, now some Texans aren’t happy about only driving 80 miles per hour. The Legislature is considering raising the maximum speed limit to 85 mph, highest in the country. The Texas [...]
Huffington Post: by Richard Eskow Congratulations! The “grand compromise” will cut nearly thirty nine billion dollars in needed government spending, which proves how “serious” everyone is about reducing the deficit. The grand compromisers could have cancelled the next ten years of tax subsidies for oil companies and cut the deficit by forty billion, but apparently [...]
MyFoxDC DALE CITY,Va. – Twenty-seven-year-old Josh Himan wept with gratitude, Saturday, when he returned to his family’s home after 18 months of recovery and rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Hundreds of residents of Dale City, Virginia lined the streets and held up homemade signs. 18 police motorcycle officers formed an honor guard. Then, [...]
Globeandmail Israel and Hamas have brought a tentative end to several days of violent exchanges, the highest level of conflict between the parties since Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza more than two years ago. The informal ceasefire, reportedly mediated by United Nations and Egyptian officials, came after a senior Hamas member made a rare [...]
