(Reuters) – Google Inc will buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion to bolster adoption of its Android mobile software and compete with smartphone rival Apple Inc. In its biggest deal to date, Google said it would pay $40 per share in cash, a 63 percent premium to Motorola Mobility’s Friday [...]
WEST CHESTER TWP. (AP) – West Chester police and the Butler County Sheriff’s Bomb Squad detonated three suspicious briefcases found outside the door at the local office of House Speaker John Boehner Sunday morning, finding no explosives. A township officer spotted the black briefcases around 11:30 a.m. Only papers were inside the briefcases, according to [...]
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WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — The two fastest-rising stars in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination worked to broaden their appeal Sunday in Iowa. Michele Bachmann, fresh off her win in a closely watched test vote, portrayed herself as a mainstream Midwesterner. Newcomer Rick Perry introduced himself as a common-sense executive focused on jobs. [...]
Financial Times: Pakistan allowed Chinese military engineers to photograph and take samples from the top-secret stealth helicopter that US special forces left behind when they killed Osama bin Laden, the Financial Times has learnt. The action is the latest incident to underscore the increasingly complicated relationship and lack of trust between Islamabad and Washington following [...]
Fox News: Not knowing who the eventual Republican presidential nominee will be in the 2012 election, President Obama’s supporters are taking the opportunity to blast all of the GOP candidates, using aggressive language to argue that the crop of contenders is either uninterested or incapable of helping Americans. Much of the criticism is focused on [...]
The pew poll listed below makes it clear what he’s saying, despite his coded language. We don’t have to pretend anymore. We don’t have to take such bull at face value. We can dance to the tune of truth, not the tune of propaganda. He can use all the coded language he wants, we all [...]
Washington Post: KABUL — Around 20 people were killed Sunday when six suicide bombers staged a commando-style attack on the office of the governor of Parwan province, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in Parwan’s capital, north of Kabul. The attack happened as top provincial officials were holding a meeting in the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the dozen lawmakers tasked with producing a deficit-cutting plan, the threatened “doomsday” defense cuts hit close to home. The six Republicans and six Democrats represent states where the biggest military contractors — Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics Corp., Raytheon Co. and Boeing Co. — build missiles, aircraft, jet fighters and tanks while [...]
