NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are plunging on more signs of economic weakness. The government says more people filed for unemployment benefits last week than were expected. And there are signs that inflation is rising — consumers paid more last month for gasoline, food and clothes. The Dow Jones industrial average at one point was [...]
New York Times: Crashing the Tea Party By DAVID E. CAMPBELL and ROBERT D. PUTNAM GIVEN how much sway the Tea Party has among Republicans in Congress and those seeking the Republican presidential nomination, one might think the Tea Party is redefining mainstream American politics. But in fact the Tea Party is increasingly swimming against [...]
USA Today: LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas is set to get a bigger American-style version of one of London’s popular tourist attractions, the London Eye. Next month, Caesars Entertainment plans to start digging to lay the foundation for a 550-foot-tall observation wheel behind the company’s Imperial Palace and Flamingo hotels that it expects to open [...]
CNN: “Now we have a Southern governor, I can’t remember his name,” Paul said to raucous applause. “He makes me look like a moderate. I have never once suggested Bernanke committed treason.” Instead, the man who has pushed to “end the Fed” said he might consider Bernanke a counterfeiter.
Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago will hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March 2012 and pay at least $30 million in damages to some 6,000 others who will never get that chance, under a court order expected to be approved Wednesday by a federal judge. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed that African-American candidates did [...]
Washington Times: Forces loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi are preparing an arsenal of Scud missiles for a full-scale assault on rebel positions, opposition sources told The Washington Times. Meanwhile, rebels tightened their stranglehold Wednesday on Tripoli by cutting off a crucial oil and gas pipeline that supplies the capital, one of the Gadhafi regime’s [...]
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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Nicknamed “Superman” because of his chiseled 6-foot-3 frame, Marine Lt. Patrick Wayland saved his most heroic act for last. He donated a kidney to a comrade he never met. Wayland, a flight student at Pensacola Naval Air Station, died earlier this month after his heart stopped beating during water survival training. He [...]
You can’t make this kind of up if you tried… YNet News: Egypt’s Al-Ahram daily claims Israeli Ofir Harrari accused of spying for Israel, devised to sell Egypt hair products endangering reproductive abilities Israeli citizen Ofir Harrari, recently accused by Egypt of spying for Israel, was allegedly involved in a complicated scheme intended to harm [...]
