Via The Los Angeles Times Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, [...]
Via Rolling Stone Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are planning a 10-city stadium tour, the New York Post reports. Though nothing has been confirmed yet, Timberlake hinted Saturday on Twitter that something was in the works, writing, “Big news coming after Justin’s Grammys performance.” According to the Post, Timberlake said, somewhat vaguely, on the red carpet [...]
Via The LA Times Tarnished by its role in a global interest-rate-rigging scandal, the British investment bank Barclays is trying to regain the public’s trust. Antony Jenkins, who took over as Barclays’ chief executive last year after the scandal forced out the bank’s top leadership, declared Tuesday: “There will be no going back to the [...]
Via USA Today President Obama plans to announce Tuesday that 34,000 more U.S. troops will be home from Afghanistan at this time next year, said people familiar with his State of the Union speech. That would reduce the American military presence in Afghanistan by about half, and maintain the schedule to end the U.S. combat [...]
Via USA Today Several nations including the United States and China assailed North Korea on Tuesday for conducting a nuclear test, and the United Nations Security Council called the test “a clear threat to international peace and security.” The Security Council issued a statement citing a resolution it approved unanimously last month that stepped up [...]
Marjorie Clifton is a Democratic strategist, principal of Clifton Consulting LLC and founder of Spike the Watercooler, a community website for women. But on cable news, she is a “former Obama campaign consultant” — a billing that confounds Obama campaign officials who say they have no recollection of her work. “I spent four years working [...]
Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is rejoining FOX News as a contributor, announced Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of the network. Palin will appear on FOX News Channel’s (FNC) daytime and primetime programming, starting with FOX & Friends on Monday, June 17th. She will also contribute to FOX Business [...]
Via TIME Often what British royals do is far more consequential than what they say. At tomorrow’s State Opening of Parliament, Queen Elizabeth II will read out her government’s agenda for the coming session, this time expected to include immigration reforms, a cap on the cost of social care, a measure to control dangerous dogs [...]
Via TechCrunch As the days go by and developers get their hands on Glass, the basic apps that we need to survive in the wild and share our photos are popping up. Today, Glass To Facebook is available for those who want to post the moments captured with Glass to the social network. It’s the [...]
Via The Los Angeles Times Four German tourists and one of their Filipino guides were killed Tuesday when one of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes started spewing large rocks and ash, officials said. The group was climbing the Mayon volcano when an explosion happened at about 8 a.m., lasting just over a minute, the Philippines’ [...]
Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it’s up, says study
Via The Los Angeles Times Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, [...]
Florida man charged with having unregistered guns on grounds of US Capitol
Via The Washington Post A Florida man is under arrest after police say he brought unregistered guns and ammunition onto the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building. U.S. Capitol Police spokesman Shennell Antrobus says officers confronted 59-year-old Ty Carroll Mitchum, of Clearwater, Fla., outside the building on Sunday because they thought he was acting suspiciously. [...]
Ex-Detroit mayor convicted of widespread corruption
Via Reuters Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, once seen as a rising star in Democratic Party politics, was convicted on Monday on two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery during his seven year tenure. Prosecutors accused Kilpatrick, 42, his father and a city contractor of widespread corruption, extorting bribes from contractors who wanted to [...]
The ‘former Obama campaign consultant’
Marjorie Clifton is a Democratic strategist, principal of Clifton Consulting LLC and founder of Spike the Watercooler, a community website for women. But on cable news, she is a “former Obama campaign consultant” — a billing that confounds Obama campaign officials who say they have no recollection of her work. “I spent four years working [...]
Obama Signals He’d Let Cuts Stand to Avoid U.S. Shutdown
Via The New York Times President Obama and Congressional leaders emerged from a White House meeting on Friday without resolution to the budget impasse, meaning that the across-the-board spending cuts that take effect Friday could remain in place for weeks if not months. Speaking to reporters after the hourlong meeting, Mr. Obama called the cuts [...]
New Congress takes office Thursday, will tackle old Congress’ leftovers
Via CNN A brand new The legislature requires workplace Thurs, and several of the identical hard problems that snagged the final 1 will certainly get into the panel. Leader Barack Obama offers authorized in to legislation the expenses in order to avoid the actual financial high cliff, a package exercised right after extended, milling rubbing [...]
Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it’s up, says study
Via The Los Angeles Times Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, [...]
Obama Signals He’d Let Cuts Stand to Avoid U.S. Shutdown
Via The New York Times President Obama and Congressional leaders emerged from a White House meeting on Friday without resolution to the budget impasse, meaning that the across-the-board spending cuts that take effect Friday could remain in place for weeks if not months. Speaking to reporters after the hourlong meeting, Mr. Obama called the cuts [...]
As Troops Advance in Mali, U.S. Begins Airlift
Via The New York Times Malian as well as France causes had been documented to stay effects of 2 essential main Malian cities upon Wednesday following the France Protection Ministry stated these people recaptured all of them upon Mon, pressing back again a good enhance through Islamist résistant that have overrun the actual country’s north [...]
Facebook Arrives On Google Glass Thanks To Unofficial Photo Sharing App
Via TechCrunch As the days go by and developers get their hands on Glass, the basic apps that we need to survive in the wild and share our photos are popping up. Today, Glass To Facebook is available for those who want to post the moments captured with Glass to the social network. It’s the [...]
Stream the New Album From David Bowie
Via Slate “Here I am / not quite dying,” David Bowie sings on the opening, title track of his new album The Next Day, which you can stream now on iTunes. This is one of the main themes of the album: Bowie has a long past behind him—ten years have elapsed since his last album, [...]
Matthew Goode Knows You Hated Him For Watchmen
Via Cinemablend English actor Matthew Goode has landed roles in such acclaimed dramas as A Single Man and Match Point. But here in America, he’s most often recognized—and regularly loathed—for playing Ozymandias in Zack Snyder’s dedicatedly dark superhero movie Watchmen. Even before the movie came out, many fans of Alan Moore’s comic decried Goode’s casting, [...]
Former Governor Sarah Palin Rejoins FOX News Channel as Contributor
Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is rejoining FOX News as a contributor, announced Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of the network. Palin will appear on FOX News Channel’s (FNC) daytime and primetime programming, starting with FOX & Friends on Monday, June 17th. She will also contribute to FOX Business [...]
Scott Brown to guest-host O’Reilly Factor
Former Sen. Scott Brown will guest-host tonight’s edition of Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Brown’s spokesman tells POLITICO. Brown, who joined Fox News as a contributor earlier this year, tweeted that he would be guest-hosting for Bill O’Reilly. We took it for an April Fool’s joke — especially given that the most recent programming notes [...]
FOX News Channel Signs Tucker Carlson as Co-Host of FOX & FRIENDS Weekend
FOX News Channel (FNC) has hired Tucker Carlson as co-host of FOX & Friends Weekend announced Bill Shine, Executive Vice President of Programming. Carlson, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, will debut on Saturday, April 6th. In making the announcement, Shine said, “We’ve been impressed with Tucker’s lively and thought-provoking appearances on our [...]
10 smartphone habits you should avoid
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Should the Yankees bench A-Rod?
Via ESPN Go We know we’ve been harping on Alex Rodriguez quite a bit this past week, but he’s just making it real easy on us. A-Rod got one hit last night, but struck out in a situation that just required him to put the ball in play. Joe Girardi waited until the final at-bat [...]
Now that the first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln has arrived, I thought it apropos to revisit the other ways that the “Great Emancipator” has been portrayed on screen with an essay by Melvyn Stokes entitled “Abraham Lincoln and the Movies.” The trailer is stunning, and one thing I particularly admired was the decision by [...]