Imperial Valley Press Reporting from Arlington, Va.— Rosemary Brown is standing over the grave of her son at Arlington National Cemetery when someone catches her eye. It’s a boy in khaki shorts and muddy shoes, juggling a clunky camera and the Motorola Xoom he got for his 17th birthday five days earlier. “May I ask [...]
Fox News: With the Republican field for the 2012 presidential nomination still in flux, the two major candidates who ran for president in 2008 — Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee — receive the most backing among GOP voters nationally. Romney garners the support of 19 percent of Republicans and Huckabee 17 percent, according to a [...]
Accuweather: As if tornadoes and damaging thunderstorms were not enough, historic flooding is also threatening the Mississippi River, below St. Louis, as well as the lower part of the Ohio River. The rising waters are expected to top levels set during February 1937. This mark is the middle Mississippi Valley’s equivalent to the 1993 event [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Economic growth braked sharply in the first quarter as higher food and gasoline prices dampened consumer spending and sent inflation rising at its fastest pace in 2-1/2 years. Another report on Thursday showed a surprise jump in the number of Americans claiming unemployment benefits last week, which could cast a shadow on [...]
CNN: NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Wal-Mart’s core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday. “We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure,” Duke said at an event in New York. “There’s no doubt [...]
PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. (AP) – Firefighters searched one splintered pile after another for survivors Thursday, combing the remains of houses and neighborhoods pulverized by the nation’s deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades. At least 281 people were killed across six states — more than two-thirds of them in Alabama, where large cities bore the [...]
Politico: ExxonMobil Thursday defiantly accused White House and congressional Democrats of playing politics with oil prices as the company announced $10.7 billion in first quarter earnings. The company went on the offense on a day it reported its highest earnings for a quarter since 2008, a fact that President Barack Obama and Democrats are using [...]
The Hill: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday took a swipe at billionaire businessman Donald Trump, demanding to see his “Republican registration.” While speaking at a breakfast with New Hampshire Republicans one day after “The Donald” visited the Granite State, Paul riffed off the potential GOP presidential candidate’s “birther” questions. “I’ve come to New Hampshire [...]
Comics Alliance: After recently undertaking a journey to walk — not fly — across the United States in the “Grounded” storyline and reconnect with the country and everyday Americans, Superman appears to be taking another step that could have major implications for his national identity: in Action Comics #900… …Superman announces that he is going [...]
Fox News: After Republican efforts in Washington to defund Planned Parenthood fizzled this month, several states are now in a race to become the first to strip the organization of all taxpayer money. Kansas, Indiana, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Texas are among the states who are taking up the fight that the GOP-led House [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Portsmouth, N.H., and New York— Donald Trump’s arrival in Portsmouth on Wednesday could not have been more dramatic had it been scripted for his television series: The black helicopter emblazoned with his name swooped out of a drizzling morning sky. He strode across the tarmac toward an airport hanger packed [...]
Washington Post: It proves nothing. It could be fake. It’s all so fishy. Aren’t there multiple layers on the scanned document released by the White House? Why did it take so long to produce? The people who do not believe that President Obama was born in the United States showed Wednesday that a good conspiracy [...]
