Associated Press: BEIJING (AP) — Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor. During a talk at China’s Ministry of Science & Technology Wednesday, the billionaire said: “The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste.” [...]
NY Post: Hot-head Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight this afternoon in Los Angeles because he was playing a game on his phone apparently past the point when passengers are supposed to have turned off their devices. On his Twitter account, Baldwin wrote: “Flight attendant on American [Airlines] reamed me out 4 [...]
Washington Post: A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and staged a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said Tuesday. The children, a 10-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, remained in [...]
SacBee: The Jack Daniel Distillery has launched the “Operation Ride Home” campaign, an effort to assist soldiers and their families in traveling home for the holidays. The famed distillery has joined forces with the Armed Services YMCA of Fort Campbell that will work with military officials at the installation to identify soldiers and families with [...]
CNN: Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday, three days after he was arrested on a drunk driving charge near his suburban Washington home. In a brief statement released to the media, Babbitt said he had submitted his resignation to his boss, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and that LaHood had accepted it. Babbitt, 65, a [...]
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles roll into the Redistribution Property Assistance Team Yard at Camp Virginia, Kuwait, Dec. 6. The RPAT assists soldiers coming out of Iraq to turn in mission essential items and redeploy back to the United States. The RPAT Yard is just one way Third Army/ARCENT is showing how it supports the [...]
Israel National News: The Jerusalem District Court sentenced David Mizrachi of Kiryat Arba to three months’ community service for running over a terrorist who stabbed his wife. Mizrachi, 57, was convicted in June of serious assault as part of a plea bargain, and the sentence was handed down Tuesday. The incident took place at the [...]
NASA: NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host [...]
Chicago Sun Times: “Justin” is 6 feet 2, 250 pounds, with a build that looks like it could split open a suit jacket during a particularly violent sneeze. But the mixed martial arts expert from Des Plaines insists it was his “training,” not brawn, that allowed him to wrench a loaded pistol from the hand [...]
Washington Times: New intelligence indicates that North Korea is moving ahead with building its first road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, an easily hidden weapon capable of hitting the United States, according to Obama administration officials. The intelligence was revealed in a classified Capitol Hill briefing last month. Its existence was made public in a letter to [...]
AFP: The Muslim Brotherhood, the biggest winner in the first round of Egypt’s elections, has threatened to take to the streets if there is any attempt to manipulate results. The group, a moderate Islamist movement banned for decades under the rule of deposed autocrat Hosni Mubarak, gained 36.6 percent of votes cast on November 28-29 [...]
Sky News: Robert Ford is returning after the administration argued that his presence was important for advancing US policy goals and serving as a witness to the ongoing violence there. He had been due to return in late November but security concerns delayed his trip. Mr Ford’s presence in Syria was a symbolic part of [...]
Associated Press: TOKYO (AP) — An outing of luxury sportscar enthusiasts in Japan ended in an expensive freeway pileup — smashing a stunning eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes likely worth more than $1 million together. Police say they believe the accident Sunday was touched off when the driver of one of the Ferraris [...]
Fox News – Atlanta: ATLANTA – Herman Cain might be out of the running as a Republican presidential candidate, but his voice still carries weight with his many loyal supporters. Since he bowed out of the race Saturday , there has been much speculation on who he would endorse. Sources tell FOX 5 News that [...]
Los Angeles Times: REPORTING FROM SEOUL — You got a problem with this? Japanese officials are investigating whether crime syndicate members — known as Yakuza — received no-interest loans valued at nearly half a million dollars that were intended for victims of the March 11SREPORTING FROM SEOUL — You got a problem with this? Japanese [...]
New York Times: WASHINGTON — Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of hundreds of thousands [...]
