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marți, 12 octombrie 2010

Congressional panel to examine big Calif. wildfire

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US News News - October 12, 2010
A congressional panel on Tuesday will look into the U.S. Forest Service's initial response to last year's gigantic Southern California wildfire that killed two firefighters and destroyed 89 homes.
Conservative Indiana provided the first sign of a Democratic sweep in 2006 when Republicans lost three House seats in the Hoosier state, then glumly watched dozens more fall as polls closed across the country.
US probe into aid worker's death (This Is Lancashire)
Barack Obama offered his condolences for the death of British aid worker Linda Norgrove who died during a rescue attempt by US special forces in Afghanistan.
The tea party movement was born in anger over the recession and the Obama administration's bailouts, and built largely on a platform of lower taxes and smaller government.
There's still the matter of money. But it looks increasingly likely that NASA will get an extra space shuttle flight.
A Republican congressional candidate from Ohio, countering criticism from a House GOP leader, said Monday that he did nothing wrong by wearing a Nazi uniform while participating in World War II re-enactments. Rich Iott told The Associated Press in an interview that he took part in the historical re-enactments to educate the public, and does not ...
While a Verizon iPhone isA widely anticipated A for early 2011, the question remains: will it support 4G? On Verizon this would mean LTE, and Verizon is set toA roll that out A to 38 metropolitan areas and 62 airports by the end of 2010.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden laughs after President Obama remarked that he looked cool in his sunglasses at the Moving America Forward rally October 10, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Apple has been awarded a trademark for the ubiquitous phrase, "There's an app for that." Indeed, the phrase has become so popular that knock-offs of it are frequently used, as in "There's an X for Y," whatever Y is.
Although Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 launch event highlighted ATT handsets, there are handsets going global, to sixty carriers, the company said.
Microsoft held its first Oct. 11 Windows Phone 7 launch event at 6:30 PT, 9:30 ET in New York City.
As if voters don't have enough to be angry about this election year, the government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits.
The Justice Department is battling to save a federal law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero, appealing two court rulings that the statute is an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech.
In a June 18, 2004, file photo, Prof. Peter A. Diamond smiles prior to the start of a meeting at Rome's Bank of Italy headquarters.

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duminică, 10 octombrie 2010

No Social Security COLA Expected for 2011

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US News News - October 10, 2010
FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2010 file photo, Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., chairman of the House Ways and... FILE - In this Jan.
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Barney Frank and Tammy Baldwin On April 21, Rep. Barney Frank called Get Equal's protest of a hearing held by House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller aimed at getting a committee vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act ''stupid,'' ''immature'' and ''tacky.'' At the time, Frank asked, ''How does this help us get the bill ...
President Barack Obama will headline a Minneapolis campaign rally for Mark Dayton on Oct.
Reporting from Bismarck, N.D. - From all appearances, Rep. Earl Pomeroy was the wrong guy, at the wrong place, in the wrong year - with the wrong message.
A report says a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Ohio dressed up in a German SS uniform to participate in Nazi reenactments.
Major league baseball Hall of Famer and multiple batting title champion Tony Gwynn has cancer. He suspects his use of chewing tobacco during his career had something to do with it.
There are only two movies left in the "Harry Potter" series, so wouldn't it be great to see them in 3D? It might be, but those hoping to see "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1," when it opens on Nov. 19th should stop hoping.
Google's drive for innovation is extending to the road. The company has been testing automated, self-driving automobiles, and the cars, six Toyota Priuses and an Audi TT, have logged a total of 140,000 miles.
About 800 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Dave Edmonds is struggling to remind people about the BP oil spill.
Call it a ripple-down effect that could determine House control. The outcomes of marquee races always influence down-ballot contests on Election Day, and, this year, whether Democrats keep power or Republicans seize it could well hinge on which party prevails in several hotly contested races for governor and Senate.
Wal-Mart surely wasn't happy to see its arch-rival Target get the iPad on Oct. 3rd. Wal-Mart, in May, said it was expecting to begin offering the iPad for sale in its U.S. retail stores "later this year," but it hasn't happened ... yet.
The Mexican government said Friday it has opened a federal investigation into the reported shooting of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by Mexican pirates and strongly denied delaying action on finding the man or his attackers.
The Chronic Dev Team are set to release the GreenPois0n jailbreak on 10-10-10 at 10:10:10 GMT. Jailbreakers will have a choice, however, on what jailbreak to use: they will be joined a day later by Geohot, who will release his own jailbreak for iOS 4.1, LimeRa1n, using a different bootrom exploit.
Before President Barack Obama picked him to be his next national security adviser, Tom Donilon was a lobbyist for mortgage giant Fannie Mae and fought off congressional attempts to impose new regulations.

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sâmbătă, 9 octombrie 2010

Despite new fame, O'Donnell faces skeptical voters

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US News News - October 9, 2010
Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell has a simple message in her campaign ads - "I'm you."With three weeks to the election, many Delaware voters have their doubts.While O'Donnell's quirky past has made her famous, she remains something of an enigma at home - a talented public speaker and occasional television pundit with a thin resume and a long list ...
There's no relief from the jobs crisis - for everyday Americans or lawmakers facing the midterm elections.
Even as California lawmakers passed a budget Friday to end an unprecedented 100-day impasse, their spending plan looked to be so tenuous that the next governor was expected to face a multibillion dollar deficit from the moment he or she steps into office next year.
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold defended his vote for health care reform during a televised debate Friday, and accused Republican challenger Ron Johnson of wanting to replace the program with a system that puts insurance companies in control.
A New Jersey Republican congressional candidate criticized his Democratic opponent Friday amid mounting evidence that Democratic officials planted a tea party candidate in the race to siphon off conservative votes.
Another leak on Friday places the iPhone on the Verizon network early in 2011. The latest info comes only days after a similar Wall Street Journal report.
Albertina Walker's singing once stopped the filming of a movie because so many actors were moved to tears by the "Queen of Gospel." At home in Chicago, she babied her beloved French poodles, wore rhinestone sunglasses and was a fixture at the city's gospel music festival.
In the ugliest ad so far in Nevada's contentious Senate race, Republican Sharron Angle accuses Democrat Harry Reid of helping to put Viagra in the hands of child molesters.
In another White House shake up, President Barack Obama on Friday announced that his national security adviser, Gen.
Potential flaws in foreclosure documents are threatening to throw the real estate industry into a full-blown crisis, as Bank of America on Friday became the first bank to stop sales of foreclosed homes in all 50 states.
Do you like this story? Follow me on Twitter Exoskeletons definitely haveA military uses , but what about something for regular folks? You might think none of them would need an exoskeleton, but there's an obvious use case: paraplegics.
In this Oct. 5, 2010 photograph, job seekers browse through information during a jobs fair sponsored by Scott Lee Cohen, Independent Candidate for Governor of Illinois, in Rockford, Ill.
This is far from his role as a police officer, we would have to say. Larry Wilcox, one of the stars of the old late 70s - early 80's hit TV show 'CHiPs,' has been charged with securities fraud.
Google is celebrating John Lennon's birthday, a day early, though not on its U.S. site.
Passengers have been evacuated from an Allegiant Air jet at Orlando-Sanford International Airport after the plane's right engine caught fire.

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vineri, 8 octombrie 2010

Democrats see glimmers of hope in election gloom

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US News News - October 8, 2010
With only weeks left in the campaign, some staggering Democrats have jumped back into contention in congressional and gubernatorial races around the country, giving the party glimmers of hope that Election Day won't also be doomsday.In Illinois, Gov.
In this photo provided by the Mayor's office, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, right, and New York Gov.
Gov. Chris Christie justified his decision to scrap the state's most ambitious public works project as a move to protect the long-range financial interests of New Jersey taxpayers.
Hundreds of people using speedboats, helicopters and all-terrain vehicles are searching for a missing American tourist presumably shot and killed by Mexican pirates on a border lake, authorities in Mexico say.
Former President George W. Bush's memoir will arrive next month with a huge first printing and an e-book with multimedia extras, Crown Publishers said in a statement Thursday.
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo tops speculation for the Nobel Peace Prize - one betting site has already declared him the winner - though some experts expect a more low-key choice on Friday.
President Barack Obama is being joined by Vice President Joe Biden in Philadelphia this weekend at a rally that aims to invigorate Democratic voters ahead of two crucial statewide races.Obama announced last week he'd be joined Sunday by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak and gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato .
Ethics trials for two prominent House Democrats were set Thursday for after the midterm elections, depriving Republicans of headlines that could become campaign ads.
With antennagate grinding to a halt, more or less, but is Glassgate about to begin? It could be: speaking of grinding, it appears that third-party cases, especially those that slide on, are capable of trapping particulate matter between themselves and the iPhone 4's glass back, which could lead to ...
A federal judge on Thursday upheld the authority of the federal government to require everyone to have health insurance, dealing a setback to groups seeking to block the new national health care plan.
Heavy U.S. reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban because contractors often don't vet local recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs, Senate investigators said Thursday.
More than 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each went to people who were either dead or in prison, a government investigator says in a new report.
President Barack Obama has rejected a bill that the White House fears could worsen the mounting problems caused by flawed or misleading documents used by banks in home foreclosures.
She is a 2010 Duke graduate, so the words "she's old enough to know better" come to mind, but apparently not.
The Wall Street Journal plugged some of holes in its story regarding a CDMA version of the iPhone overnight.

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joi, 7 octombrie 2010

GOP allies make Colo. a top target

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US News News - October 7, 2010
Watching an "Oprah" show about holiday craft tips? The commercial break includes a piece starring a sickly man in a hospital bed with dire warnings about the health care overhaul supported by Sen.
Obama to campaign in Maryland, Illinois (The Topeka Capital-Journal)
Campaigning for Democrats in a string of blue states, President Barack Obama is warning his party's rank-and-file of the dangers of "sulking and sitting back." The day after raising cash for Democrats in New Jersey, Obama is headed Thursday to a rally for Gov.
U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar of Minnesota has been in politics so long that when he talks about his district helping deliver the presidency to a promising young Democrat, he means John F. Kennedy.
A conservative organization is running ads against five incumbent House Democrats, saying voters need to stop them from expanding the size of government.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg said Wednesday he'll introduce legislation requiring colleges to adopt a code of conduct that prohibits bullying and harassment following the suicide of a student whose gay sexual encounter in his dorm room was broadcast online.
New Yorkers using food stamps will not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being put forward by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson.
Gay Americans have arrived at a "teachable moment." Often feeling marginalized in political discourse or grousing that they're used as political pawns, they have the nation's attention - and sympathy - after a recent spate of teenage suicides and two apparent anti-gay attacks in the heart of their community.
Nearly a year after a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon is taking new steps to beef up security and surveillance programs at its bases, and will join an FBI intelligence-sharing program aimed at identifying future terror threats, U.S. officials said.
First Todd Palin was mad at Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller for stepping around the question of whether his wife is qualified to be president.
The three-way race for the Senate became a discussion of extremes during a debate Wednesday night - radical-right, far-left and all over the place.
Former President Bill Clinton said desperately needed U.S. aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of a lack of food, jobs and housing nine months after a devastating earthquake.
The government is looking into allegations that mortgage lenders in the foreclosure crisis have been evicting homeowners using flawed court papers, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.
The spill was reported Tuesday afternoon, and cleanup crews were on the scene Wednesday.
Philadelphia Phillies Roy Halladay made his postseason debut on Wednesday, and in doing so, made major league baseball history.
U.S. and Mexican officials are just now fully employing a gun-tracing program touted as a key deterrent to weapons-smuggling, nearly three years after it was first announced in Mexico and weeks after an inspector general's preliminary report called it underused and unsuccessful.

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miercuri, 6 octombrie 2010

Nevada Tea Party chairman resigns over secret recording of Sharron Angle trashing GOP

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US News News - October 6, 2010
The chairman of the Tea Party of Nevada resigned Tuesday after a recording was made public capturing Republican Sharron Angle badmouthing GOP leaders during a meeting with the shadowy group's U.S. Senate candidate.
The presidential seal fell off President Barack Obama's lectern and clattered to the stage as he delivered a speech to a women's conference.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is opposing a court ruling that lets other countries file a friend-of-the-court brief in her appeal of a decision that put parts of the state's new immigration law on hold.
A deep-pocketed alliance with ties to top Republicans Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie is pumping more than $4 million into key Senate races in a single week of advertising, a crucial infusion to counter a surge in Democratic Party spending as Election Day draws near.
The wife of Massachusetts Congressman John Tierney has agreed to plead guilty to charges she helped her brother conceal what authorities say was an illegal offshore gambling business that generated millions of dollars.
In one photo, Margie Phelps has a furrowed brow and is stomping on the American flag at one of the numerous protests her fundamentalist church has held nationwide against the military, gays and the Catholic church.
U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene wants South Carolina's Democratic Party chairwoman to step down because she won't support his long shot bid.
A children's centered political group that ran ads four years ago in Pennsylvania and Arizona is now targeting Missouri's Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Roy Blunt.
Blaine Kern and his son, Barry, today announced a settlement of the l awsuit the younger Kern filed to wrest control of the family business that builds floats for 21 Carnival parades.
Rhode Island U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, is writing a memoir.
Weighing privacy vs. security after 9/11, the Supreme Court seemed unwilling Tuesday to stop federal investigations into the private lives of people who want to work at government installations - even those who don't have security clearances and don't work on secret projects.
Many supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement that has shaken up U.S. politics share the same views as the Christian right on social issues like abortion and the role of religion in public life, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
Pirates murder man in Texas.The alleged shooting of a US boater by Mexican pirates on Falcon Lake, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border, is raising fears about spillover drug violence from Mexico into the US.
An Ohio man who bludgeoned his girlfriend to death, threw her body in a river and stole her ATM card to feed his crack addiction faces execution on Wednesday.
In a year when Democrats are struggling to energize supporters, Hispanic voters appear significantly less motivated than the rest of the U.S. to cast election ballots even though two-thirds of Latino registered voters say they'll vote Democratic in their congressional race, a Pew Hispanic Center study shows.

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