Business Insider: The White House continued its embrace of the Occupy Wall Street protests on Sunday, using the strongest terms yet to identify President Barack Obama with the growing movement. In a call previewing Obama’s upcoming bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama “will continue to acknowledge the [...]
NY Daily News: Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested in Chicago and other cities on Saturday night and Sunday morning, as the anti-corporate fury from the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York continue to spread across the country. Shortly after 1 a.m. in Chicago, police arrested some 175 protesters who had set up a makeshift [...]
Supplies fill a storage space housed in an unused space donated by a Leftist teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers, to support the camp of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York, Sunday, October 16, 2011. NEW YORK (AP) — The Occupy Wall Street movement has close to $300,000, as well as storage space [...]
NY Post: Con Ed has given the Ground Zero mosque an ultimatum: Pay the $1.7 million you owe in back rent, or we’ll terminate your lease and take back our property. Con Ed and mosque developer Park51 have an unusual, uneasy alliance, sharing ownership of a site slated to be one of the most controversial [...]
Breitbart.tv: There have been no reports of arrests of people for closing their accounts at any banks.There have been arrests made at a CitiBank branch in New York after protesters staged a demonstration inside the branch and then, as part of the demonstration, demanded their accounts be closed. CitiBank has released this statement: “A large [...]
Los Angeles Times: LAS VEGAS — Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after his car became ensnarled in a fiery 15-car pileup on Lap 13, flew over another vehicle and landed in a catch fence just outside Turn 2. The 33-year-old racer was a two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, including [...]
Cornel West joins the many ‘OWS’ protesters who were arrested this weekend all over the globe as the protests spin out of control. ABCNews: Author, commentator, civil rights activist and Princeton University professor Cornel West has been arrested while protesting on the steps of the Supreme Court about corporate influence in politics. A Supreme Court [...]
Chron.com: The postcard arrived in Ed Denzler’s mailbox in Pearland last month, a mystery from his past nestled among the routine bills and coupons. Addressed in neat block letters to Denzler, the handwritten note reads, in English: “It takes a strong man to save himself, a great man to save another. Thank you for 1944. [...]
CNS News: Appearing on NBC’S “Meet the Press” today, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said he believes that life begins at conception and that he does not agree with abortion “under any circumstances.” Cain then elaborated that he did not support exceptions that would allow abortion in cases of rape and incest but did believe [...]
Israel Today: A growing number of Israelis and foreign Jewish groups are expressing concern over the anti-Semitic flavor of some of the “Occupy Wall St.” economic protests in the US. From the 13th century expulsion of Englands Jews to the 19th century Russian pogroms to the Nazi Holocaust, sour economic conditions have historically formed the [...]
The Daily Mail: British Royal Navy ship was ordered to turn its guns around because they were parked pointing at a hotel room Michelle Obama was staying in. Fearing the First Lady might be in danger, minders ordered the captain of the HMS Edinburgh stationed in Cape Town, South Africa, to switch them away from [...]
