CBS News: The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch. The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion. It’s the most rapid increase in the debt [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP)– Prosecutors have charged “Girls Gone Wild” creator Joseph Francis with assault, false imprisonment and other misdemeanor crimes for allegedly attacking a woman he met at a Hollywood club, but the businessman said he has witnesses and evidence that will exonerate him. The charges filed against Francis and his bodyguard stem from an [...]
New York Times: Angry villagers stoned to death a local Taliban commander and his bodyguard in southern Afghanistan Sunday after the militants killed a 60-year-old man accused of aiding the government, Afghan officials said. “People won’t tolerate the Taliban’s barbaric actions anymore,” said Dawoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand Province. “They will [...]
Politico: NATO commanders who authorized the Libya bombing campaign should be “held accountable” to international law and hauled before the world court for civilian deaths, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said Tuesday. “NATO’s top commanders may have acted under color of international law, but they are not exempt from international law,” Kucinich said in a statement [...]
LA Times: The top U.N. human-rights panel ordered its investigators Tuesday to begin looking into possible crimes against humanity during Syria’s 5-month-old crackdown on anti-government protesters, while Syrian activists accused security forces of blocking a U.N. fact-finding team from visiting areas of unrest. The top U.N. human-rights panel ordered its investigators Tuesday to begin looking [...]
Dallas Morning News: A Dallas man with a history of domestic violence confessed to drowning his two young sons in a remote Glenn Heights creek yesterday, according to police documents. Naim Rasool Muhammad is in the Dallas County Jail on two capital murder charges. His bail has been set at $2 million, according to jail [...]
Barely English-speaking Al Sharpton has been named the permanent host of PoliticsNation, the new 6PM weeknight show on MSNBC MSNBC Press Release: REVEREND AL SHARPTON TO HOST “PoliticsNation” ON MSNBC Program to Air at 6 pm ET Weeknights Beginning August 29th NEW YORK – August 23, 2011 – Reverend Al Sharpton, the civil rights activist [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new homes fell for the third straight month in July. If the current pace continues, 2011 would be the worst year for new-home sales in nearly half a century. Sales of new homes fell nearly 1 percent in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 298,000, the Commerce Department [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Factory output in the U.S. central Atlantic region dropped to a two-year low in August While the survey covers only a small portion of U.S. manufacturing, it follows a report last week that showed a steep decline in factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region, signaling a potential shrinking in the sector that [...]
