Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens took a poke at the controversial Citizens United decision Wednesday night and said his former colleagues have probably already had second thoughts about it. Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens speaks at a lecture presented by the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, […]
Archive for May, 2012
Shady car dealers eye military
Cody Cameron, a Marine stationed in Jacksonville, N.C., got burned when he bought a used car. He paid $17,000 last year for a 2004 Nissan 350-Z with 60,000 miles on it. He figured the car would last him a long time. It didn’t. “I drove the vehicle for about two weeks. And one day all […]
Job interview ends cold case?
A Washington, D.C., man was detained for first-degree murder when a background check for a new job revealed an outstanding warrant in one of the oldest cold case murders in Montgomery County. Bobby Coley, 63, of southeast Washington, was applying for work as a temp Tuesday, when a background check uncovered an outstanding warrant in […]
Leap Day error strands teen
Elizabeth Olivas, who came to the U.S. illegally at age 4, went to Mexico to get a green card or visa to fulfill requirements of U.S. law and has not been allowed to return since she missed the deadline by a day. A teen who is slated to give the salutatorian speech at her high […]
Polls: Deadlock in key states
Now that Mitt Romney is the official GOP presidential nominee, President Obama placed a call to the former governor to congratulate him. Meanwhile both campaigns have already spent a combined $85 million on TV ads. NBC’s Chuck Todd reports. President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney are deadlocked in three key presidential battleground […]
New drugs for autism patients
“It’s not a cure,” he says, “but it definitely moved the needle.” Seaside is running two late-stage trials in adults and children with Fragile X, and a study in children with different types of autism, including autism with no identifiable cause, like Jack’s. Results of the study in which Jack participated are expected later this […]
Government cuts brake growth
Frederic J. Brown / AFP – Getty Images People walk past a sign leading to a job center in Rosemead, east of downtown of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley on May 24, 2012 in California. European-style “austerity” is hitting home in the U.S. Thanks to deeper-than-estimated cuts in government spending, the U.S. economy […]
Edwards jury ordered back to deliberations
Chuck Burton / AP John Edwards leaves the federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., on Thursday. A jury on Thursday reached a verdict on one count in the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards, but was ordered by the judge to resume deliberations. In a confusing turn of events, the jury of eight […]
Nanny Bloomberg strikes again: Target soft drinks
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is entering the combat zone with a sweet drink ban limiting consumption of large-sized drinks in food service establishments in his fight against obesity. Some New Yorkers say it is at the cost of personal liberties. As soon as next March, all beverages larger than 16 ounces could be banned […]
Americans beg Obama: Please, don’t kill us with drones
Grace Bedell thought it could clinch the election when she suggested to Abraham Lincoln that he grow a beard. Now a century and a half later, Americans are asking their president to consider an updated proposal: Mr. Obama, please don’t kill us. Unlike the correspondence from 1860 that was signed off by a single person […]
Plan X: Pentagon’s blueprint for full-fledged cyberwar
The wheels of the war machine are ever turning inside the Pentagon, but the Defense Department’s latest endeavor won’t involve fighter jets and armored tanks. The DoD is putting aside billions to enhance its cyberwar capabilities. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, is turning towards the private sector and America’s next generation of […]
Upper house lends weight to push for gay marriage
NSW has joined Tasmania and the ACT in calling for the legalisation of gay marriage. Greens MP Cate Faehrmann’s private members’ motion passed 22 votes to 16 in the Legislative Council, with both major parties allowing a conscience vote. Marriage is a federal responsibility, governed by the 1961 Commonwealth Marriage Act. Unlike the federal Liberal […]
Mabo decision sublime, says PM
THE Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has described the Mabo decision as a ”sublime” moment in Australia’s history. ”This was a judgment of the High Court at its finest,” she told Parliament, acknowledging the former Labor prime minister Paul Keating’s role of inscribing native title in Australian law. ”It was an act of courage and conviction […]
Three dead in Melbourne house fire
Updated: 05:52, Friday June 1, 2012 A woman and two children are dead after a fire ripped through their home in Melbourne’s south-west. Fire crews rushed to the house in Clayton South around 1am and found the property and an extension at the back well alight. It took forty minutes to bring the blaze under […]
Australia takes charge of Oruzgan allies
The Federal Government has bowed to United States pressure and will take full control of military operations in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province as international forces prepare to withdraw from the country over the next two years. For the first time since Australian troops were deployed to the southern province eight years ago, Australian commanders will also […]
We’ll pay more to get home by taxi
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Climate Change Minister Greg Combet loses it as heat applied
ON FIRE: A normally restrained Greg Combet hits back at the Opposition over its carbon tax criticism yesterday. Source: News Limited CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet broke into song yesterday as the Government stepped up its counterattack on the Opposition’s campaign against the carbon tax. In an uncharacteristically fiery performance in Parliament, Mr Combet ridiculed […]
Sheep hit motorists after truck crash
It was raining sheep on Melbourne motorists after a truck carrying 400 livestock rolled off a bend and hung precariously over a highway. The dramatic crash in Laverton North occurred when the sheep-carrying truck was travelling to Geelong on the Western Ring Road off-ramp on Thursday night, police said. Dead and injured sheep fell on […]
NSW prison guards to stop work
AAP NSW’s 3500 prison guards are preparing to walk off the job after a Newcastle colleague was sentenced for assaulting an inmate. Matt Bindley from the NSW prison officers’ union said the one-hour stop-work meeting on Friday was a show of support for Corrective Services officer Terry Dolling and a protest at his treatment. CCTV […]
Labor backing China bid for Kimberley land, says Barnaby Joyce
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