Heckler disrupts Obama during drone, Guantanamo speech
Posted by: PrairieDogPress
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 04:14:39 -0700 | political-news
An unwelcome heckler several times Thursday interrupted a speech President Obama was making on national security. President Obama addressed an audience at the National Defense University discussing recent criticism about drone activity and his intention to refocus on closing down...
Constitutional disorder: House votes to approve Keystone in defiance of Obama
Posted by: PrairieDogPress
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:05:50 -0700 | political-news
Republicans in the house, who are always professing how much they cherish the Constitution, voted on Wednesday to pass the H.R 3 Northern Route Approval Act, which would circumvent action by President Obama and allow construction of the Keystone XL...
Kreider keeps Rangers alive with OT goal
Source: The Boston Globe
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 03:32:07 -0700 | sports-news
Chris Kreider steered in a pass from Rick Nash 7:03 into overtime, and the New York Rangers stayed alive in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-3 victory over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night. New York, which erased 2-0...
Jury deadlocked on Jodi Arias penalty: No sentence as retrial set
Posted by: VeronicaS
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 04:03:51 -0700 | disasters-news
The jury in the Jodi Arias murder trial was dismissed Thursday after they failed to agree on a sentence. Judge Sherry Stephens has now scheduled a retrial for July 18, reports The Associated Press. The jury, made up of eight...
Wall St. bucks global slump
Source: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 03:53:18 -0700 | business-news
After bracing for a steep fall, Wall Street barely shrugged at a sharp sell-off in stock markets around the globe...Weak manufacturing data out of China pointed to a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, sending the region's stock indexes into...
Jodi Arias Jury Hung
Posted by: April_Johnson
Phoenix :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 04:03:51 -0700 | disasters-news
The jury just came back stating that they are hung and cannot come to a unanimous agreement. I have been watching this live on HLNtv. HLN reported that two of the jurors were visibly crying and mouthing to the family...
Melanie Laurent Pregnant, Debuts Baby Bump at Now You See Me Premiere: Picture
Source: US Magazine
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 16:17:19 -0700 | entertainment-news
Jim Spellman/WireImage.com What a way to make an announcement! Melanie Laurent stepped out on the red carpet at the New York City premiere of her new film Now You See Me on Tuesday, May 21 showing off a baby bump...
Obama Nominates 2 Senate Aides for S.E.C. Posts
Source: International Herald Tribune
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 02:52:56 -0700 | business-news
Changes Continue as Obama Names 2 Senate Aides for Posts Published: May 23, 2013 President Obama continued his shake-up of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, naming two Senate aides to senior posts at the Wall Street regulatory agency....
Obama ‘Respects Inherent Dignity of Every Human Life'—When Deciding Whether to Abort Terrorists
Source: CNSNews.com
Alexandria :: IN :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 16:15:35 -0700 | disasters-news
Giving a speech on counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., today, President Barack Obama explained that when deciding whether to target terrorists with droneswhether or not the terrorists are U.S. citizenshe has set a high threshold...
Gay Kid Excited To Be Made Fun Of For Second Thing
Source: The Onion
Sugar Land :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 16:11:55 -0700 | political-news
TXShortly after reports surfaced today that the Boy Scouts of America had voted to lift its ban on gay youths, local homosexual child Max Lovell, 14, told reporters that he was looking forward to joining the organization and finally being...
Earthquake felt throughout northern California
Posted by: Michael McGuire
Susanville :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 00:09:42 -0700 | technology-news
An earthquake measuring at a magnitude of 5.7 was felt Thursday night throughout northern California and portions of Nevada and Oregon, the U.S. Geological Survey reported in an email alert. The earthquake, recorded at 8:47 p.m. PT, was centered six...
Boy Scouts OK plan to accept openly gay boys
Source: Fox
Grapevine :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 18:13:00 -0700 | political-news
Texas The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders -- a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and...
With vote to lift ban on gay youth, change in Boy Scouts is coming from inside
Source: Boston Globe
Grapevine :: TX :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 17:56:57 -0700 | political-news
Invalid email address Add a personal message: Your e-mail: Invalid email address Sending your article Your article has been sent. Texas The Boy Scouts of Americas lifting the ban on openly gay youth Thursday came 12 years after I received...
Why is the US Postal Service still an independent agency?
Posted by:
Nathan Salant
Washington :: DC :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 02:59:20 -0700 | business-news
News that the US Postal Service lost nearly $2 billion in its most recent quarter actually is an improvement over the same period last year. The post office has struggled all year to cut expenses by laying off workers and...
NASA mission to lasso an asteroid is progressing
Posted by: prabirghose
Cleveland :: OH :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 02:51:22 -0700 | technology-news
President Barack Obama had earmarked a sum of $100-million for NASA to lasso a small asteroid and bring it closer to Earth. It may be recalled that in President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, the space agency called for a spending...
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