Washington Post: SEOUL — After nearly half of the servers for a South Korean bank crashed one day in April, investigators here found evidence indicating that they were dealing with a new kind of attack from an old rival: North Korea. South Korean officials said that 30 million customers of the Nonghyup agricultural bank were [...]
Washington Examiner: A new poll by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent of Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for president in 2012. In response to the question, “Do you think the Democratic party should renominate Barack Obama as the party’s candidate for president in [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — The White House has issued detailed guidelines to government officials on how to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, with instructions to honor the memory of those who died on American soil but also to recall that Al Qaeda and other extremist groups have since carried out [...]
The “Knockout King” game is “sports entertainment” for teen mobs where they compete to see who can “knockout” their victim with a sucker punch. This is happening in cities all over the U.S. and at least two deaths have been caused by these thugs. CBS News: Here’s an alert out about recent assaults on bike [...]
Ynet News: The Israeli military said Monday that it has sent two additional warships to the Red Sea border with Egypt following warnings that militants are planning another attack on southern Israel from Egyptian soil. Monday saw IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen Benny Gantz order the deployment across the entire southern sector, especially in the [...]
New York Post: This one’s truly, uh … rich: Billionaire Warren Buffett says folks like him should have to pay more taxes — but it turns out his firm, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn’t paid what it’s already owed for years. That’s right: As Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson notes, the company openly admits that [...]
Fox News: The acting director of the Justice Department division caught up in a firearms trafficking scandal is being removed from his post, sources told Fox News on Tuesday. Kenneth Melson, who heads the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will be reassigned elsewhere in the Justice Department. An announcement is expected late Tuesday [...]
ABC News: Syrian security forces opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters Tuesday, killing at least seven people, including a 13-year-old boy, as worshippers poured out of mosques after prayers to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan, activists said. The bloodshed was in the southern province of Daraa, the central city of [...]
The U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, was attacked in Damascus last week by a supporter of President Bashar Assad’s regime, according to a video broadcast on Syrian television. The American ambassador is seen on video being accosted by a group of protesters, one of whom was attempting to swath him with a poster of [...]
Gawker: The newest hacker gang isn’t after credit card numbers or classified NATO documents. Their game is blockbuster scripts, verified Twitter accounts and nude cell phone snapshots. Harden your passwords, glitterati: Hollywood Leaks will use any means necessary to bust open the entertainment industry. Hollywood Leaks has been quietly breaking into entertainment industry insiders’ email [...]
The Telegraph: On Monday Gaddafi’s wife Safia, his sons Hannibal and Mohammed, and his daughter Aisha fled the raging civil war in their own country in an armed convoy, and are now thought to be in the capital city, Algiers. This was despite the fact that just three days before 36 people were killed by [...]
Daily Caller: There goes Rick Perry again, saying things that make liberals’ heads explode. Speaking to a crowd in Iowa this weekend, the Texas governor and GOP presidential hopeful doubled down on statements he made in his book, Fed Up!, that Social Security is essentially a pyramid scheme. So just how apt is the comparison [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Whites and women are a re-election problem for President Barack Obama. Younger voters and liberals, too, but to a lesser extent. All are important Democratic constituencies that helped him win the White House in 2008 and whose support he’ll need to keep it next year. An analysis of Associated Press-GfK polls, including [...]
The Hill: A leading advocate for immigrant rights is warning this week that new White House deportation rules are ripe for abuse. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said the Department of Homeland Security’s new deportation policies — which will allow noncriminal illegal immigrants to remain in the country indefinitely — will make some immigrants susceptible to [...]
NY Times: In a shift of tactics that has alarmed American officials, the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks has published on the Web nearly 134,000 leaked diplomatic cables in recent days, more than six times the total disclosed publicly since the posting of the leaked State Department documents began last November. A sampling of the documents showed [...]
