Fox News: WASHINGTON – The U.S. should consider tougher penalties against Iran’s government and “be doing everything we can to bring it down,” Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. As Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul argued on “Fox News Sunday” that sanctions should be removed altogether to get Iran to act differently, the former secretary of state [...]
Los Angeles Times: Aftershocks continue to rattle Oklahoma on Sunday after a swarm of weekend quakes, including the largest in state history, buckled a highway, damaged several homes and gave residents the jitters. Emergency officials and seismologists are surveying the damage following the record magnitude-5.6 earthquake Saturday night. The largest aftershock of 4.0 was reported [...]
(AFP) – Surprise Republican presidential contender Herman Cain has survived a week-long firestorm after sexual harassment allegations threatened to sink his upstart White House campaign. It is possible more revelations will emerge and torpedo his candidacy, but so far the scandal has done little if anything to dent the enduring appeal of the former CEO [...]
ATLANTA (AP) – Occupy Atlanta organizers said Sunday that they plan to again try to camp at a city park, setting up yet another showdown with police a night after 20 people were arrested during a rally that spilled into the streets. The group will hold its general assembly meeting Sunday evening, then march back [...]
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(AFP) – Twenty Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested after getting into a skirmish with police trying to clear their anti-corporate greed demonstration off the sidewalks, officials said Sunday. “Most of them were arrested for disorderly conduct, three were arrested for assaulting police officers,” a New York Police Department spokeswoman said. The incidents took [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The revolution will be trademarked and put on T-shirts if an increasing number of entrepreneurs succeed in their attempts to profit from the Occupy demonstrations. A few T-shirts began to appear several days after the first protest began on Sept. 17 with a march through the streets of lower Manhattan. Now, [...]
NY Post: Post reporter spends an in‘tents’ night amid anarchy in Zuccotti Park The cheap walkie-talkie crackles inside a crowded downtown McDonald’s, stopping the gathered mass mid-sip from their Kombucha bottles and cups of corporate coffee. “There’s a situation,” a vagabond gumshoe dubbed “Conscience” tells me after the static-filled communique arrives over the air at [...]
Fox News: Attempting to turn reports of sexual harassment allegations back on the media, the campaign for Republican presidential contender Herman Cain is targeting journalists by passing out a code of ethics offering guidelines on how to report stories. On Sunday, Cain campaign spokesman J.D. Gordon emailed passages from the Society of Professional Journalist Code [...]
Jerusalem Post: “Fierce Israeli onslaught against our people intensified after we went to UN to seek membership…but we will continue,” says PA president. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that he was determined to go ahead with his statehood bid in the UN Security Council despite Israeli “escalation against the PA leadership and [...]
Wall Street Journal: An Islamic militant group in Nigeria’s restive north mounted its most deadly assault yet, a series of bomb and gun attacks over the weekend that killed dozens of people, threatening one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies despite a government security crackdown. Boko Haram—which seeks to spread Islamic law throughout Nigeria’s impoverished, majority Muslim [...]
Harrisburg, PA (AP) – An explosive sex abuse scandal and allegations of a cover-up rocked Happy Valley after former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, once considered Joe Paterno’s heir apparent, was charged with sexually assaulting eight boys over 15 years. Among the allegations was that a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assault a boy in [...]
ABC News: Voters under 30 – the so-called millennial generation – propelled Barack Obama to victory in 2008, voting Democratic by a historic 34-point margin, which separated it from older generations of voters by a wider gap than ever before. That preference gap persists, a new Pew Research Center study finds, with younger voters still [...]
