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US Marines posed with Nazi symbol in Afghanistan

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Feb. 10 (News) - The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.

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The Big Lie: “Rich People Create Jobs”

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - By Nick Hanauer - Feb. 03 (Opinion) - One of the most commonly repeated theories about job-creation is that "rich people create jobs"--specifically, rich investors and entrepreneurs who build companies that eventually employ hundreds or thousands of Americans. This theory is often used to justify very low taxes on investors and high-income earners, under the theory that such folks have to be given an incentive to "create jobs." But the trouble with the theory, says Nick Hanauer, is that it's just wrong.

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Massive opposition file on Romney hits Internet, likely from 2008 McCain campaign

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Jan. 19 (News) - If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about Mitt Romney, think again. A 200-page document that appears to be Sen. John McCain’s entire 2008 election-year opposition research file on the former Massachusetts governor hit the Internet with a vengeance Tuesday evening. And it’s an eye-opener.

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Lawmaker warns USTR on labor in Trans-Pacific pact

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Dec. 15 (News Report) - A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday warned the Obama administration that Congress could reject a proposed Asia-Pacific trade deal if the White House pushes too hard on language to protect workers rights.

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Stephen Hawking: Human Survival Depends on Space Exploration

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - By Cassandra Szklarski, Yahoo - Nov. 19 (Other) - MyGraine 7 hours ago We need population control and education for all. Time_out 4 hours ago As long as we have religion human survival will always be in question. All we need is one nut-bar to push a button and it`s over. But enou

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Poll: Cain has 20 Point Lead in GOP Field, Beats Obama by two Points

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - By Iron Mill News - Oct. 07 (News) - The Democrats are going to have to search for another talking point. Herman Cain calls himself an ABC, and American Black Conservative. After all the Racist accusations by the Left about the Tea Party and Republicans in General, A Black Man is leading the Polls in several Southern states.

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Moody's confirms U.S. rating at Aaa, outlook negative

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Walter Brandimarte, Daniel Bases - Aug. 02 (Breaking News) - Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday confirmed its Aaa rating of the United States, citing the decision to raise the debt limit, but assigned a negative outlook that could pressure lawmakers to cut the U.S. deficit.

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Judge: Corporate donations ban unconstitutional

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - May. 27 (Breaking News) - A judge has ruled that the campaign finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional. In a ruling issued late Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Cacheris tossed out part of the indictment against two men accused of illegally reimbursing donors to Hillary Clinton's Senate and presidential campaigns.

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Obama administration fights to save healthcare law

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Jeremy Pelofsky, Lisa Lambert - May. 11 (Special Report) - An appeals court on Tuesday sharply questioned whether the state of Virginia could challenge President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, which requires Americans to buy insurance in a bid to slow healthcare costs. The Obama administration is trying to save the individual mandate after a Virginia federal judge agreed with the state it was unconstitutional and struck down that part of the law. The Obama administration has vigorously defended the measure, set to go into effect in 2014

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Appeals court blasts VA mental health care system

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Paul Elias - May. 10 (Special Report) - Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health care system. In the strongly worded ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it takes the department an average of four years to fully provide the mental health benefits owed veterans. The court also said it often takes weeks for a suicidal vet to get a first appointment. The "unchecked incompetence" in handling the flood of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health claims is unconstitutional, the court said.

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Israel accuses captured Gaza engineer of training militants, leading Hamas rocket program

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 04 (Breaking News) - Israeli authorities have indicted a captured Palestinian engineer on charges he headed Hamas' militant training program and developed rockets for the group. The indictment against Dirar Abu Sisi was handed down in an Israeli court on Monday. Abu Sisi, an engineer at Gaza's sole power plant, disappeared from a train in Ukraine in February and mysteriously resurfaced days later in an Israeli prison. His family says the Mossad spy agency abducted him. Israel has said little about the case. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week he belonged to Hamas and had possessed "significant information."

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Banks, credit-card issuers warn of email breach (AP)

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jordan Robertson, Peter Svensson - Apr. 04 (Special Report) - AP - With the possible theft of millions of email addresses from an advertising company, several large companies have started warning customers to expect fraudulent emails that try to coax account login information from them.

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Prisons look to share food costs with Ohio State

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Ann Sanner - Mar. 25 (News) - Looking for ways to save money, the state's correction department and Ohio State University are exploring whether to buy food jointly and in bulk.

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Oil prices retreat after spike on Mideast turmoil

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Ben Rooney - Feb. 28 (Investigative Report) - Oil prices eased Monday, retreating from recent highs, as investors continue to monitor the political movement in North African and the Middle East. The benchmark U.S. oil contract, West Texas Intermediate, for April delivery was down 2 cents to $97.86 a barrel. Brent crude, the main European contract, was up 28 cents to $112.42 a barrel. The oil market remains focused on the Middle East and North Africa, where popular uprisings have pushed out longstanding leaders in Egypt and Tunisia. In Libya, where protests against the rule of Moammar Gadhafi have entered a second week, the death toll has reached 1,000, based on an estimate from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. U.S. oil prices surged above $100 a barrel last week, while prices in Europe hit a high of $120 a barrel -- levels not seen since 2008. The spike occurred as the unrest in Libya curbed production in the North African country, and investors worried that other oil-exporting nations could follow suit.

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Madoff to NY newspaper: Banks 'complicit' in fraud

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Feb. 15 (News Report) - Disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff said in an interview published online Tuesday that banks and hedge funds were "complicit" in his scheme to fleece victims out of billions of dollars. Madoff did not name any institutions in his series of interviews with The New York Times but said banks and hedge funds "were complicit in one form or another." He said they failed to scrutinize the discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information. "They had to know,"

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Food, demography are invisible drivers in Egypt uprising (AFP)

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Agence France-Presse - By Richard Ingham - Feb. 13 (News Analysis) - Huge population growth and food insecurity count among the factors that fuelled the revolution in Egypt and serve as a caution for other countries facing human and environmental overload, say analysts.

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States turn down federal money for jobless benefits (The Lookout)

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - By Zachery Roth - Feb. 09 (News) - The Lookout - Despite record levels of long-term unemployment, some states are choosing to walk away from a total of almost $1 billion in federal jobless benefits, according to a new report (pdf). The 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus law, extends unemployment benefits to the fast-growing number of Americans who have been [...]

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Ready for Splash Crash, the Ultimate Market Meltdown?

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

finance.yahoo.com - Feb. 03 (Opinion) - With memories of last May's "Flash Crash" still fresh in investors' minds, now comes warning of a market meltdown that could extend beyond stocks-a possible "Splash Crash" that also would affect currencies, commodities and bonds.

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Egyptian, Algerian, Mauritanian set selves alight

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Hamza Hendawi - Jan. 17 (News) - Protesters set themselves on fire in Egypt, Algeria and Mauritania on Monday in apparent copycat self-immolation attempts inspired by the act that helped trigger a popular uprising in Tunisia. The desperate acts raised concerns that the practice could become a trend among activists seeking to force change in a region that has little or no tolerance for dissent.

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Analysis: Why we shouldn’t ban bull’s-eyes

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - By Ken Paulson - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - A Pennsylvania congressman is targeting bull's-eyes. In the wake of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the murder of federal Judge John Roll, Rep. Robert Brady, D-Pa., says he plans legislation that would ban language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening federal officials and members of Congress.

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Lawmakers vote to ban picketing at Tucson funerals

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Paul Davenport - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Arizona legislators quickly approved emergency legislation Tuesday to head off picketing by a Topeka, Kan., church near the funeral service for a 9-year-old girl who was killed during Saturday's shooting in Tucson. Unanimous votes by the House and Senate cleared the way for the bill to go to Gov. Jan Brewer later Tuesday for her expected signature.

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Giffords story: A lesson in leaping to conclusions

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By David Bauder - Jan. 10 (News) - The rapidly replicated false report that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died after being shot in the head provided media outlets another lesson this weekend in the danger of leaping to conclusions. NPR News' executive editor apologized Sunday to Giffords' family for the false report. That story came only an hour after NPR scored a significant scoop in reporting on Saturday's shooting in Tucson, Ariz., itself.Media organizations also faced scrutiny for how they speculated on potential causes of a gunman's rampage in a shopping center where Giffords was meeting with constituents. National Public Radio had reported on its 2 p.m. EST newscast — and in subsequent e-mail alerts to subscribers — that Giffords had died from her injury when, in fact, she was still in surgery. Dick Meyer, executive editor of NPR News, said the information came from two different government sources, including one in the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

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US medicines for Afghan soldiers disappear

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez, Amir Shah - Dec. 22 (Investigative Report) - U.S.-donated medicines and pharmaceutical supplies meant to keep the new Afghan army and police healthy have been disappearing before reaching Afghan military hospitals and clinics, and the government said it is removing the army's top medical officer from his post as part of an investigation into alleged corruption.

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Fears over crime fuelled by smartphone craze

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Dec. 20 (News Report) - The fashionable folk tapping on Blackberrys or using apps on iPhones in New York, Paris or Barcelona have more in common than a taste for expensive hand-held devices. They are also likely to be targeted by thieves in a smartphone crime wave fuelled by the enormous appetite for the machines that serve as status symbols, essential worktools and mobile entertainment centres. The Paris police chief sounded the alarm last week when he said smartphones were the hottest item for thieves on the city's metro and that robbers were increasingly turning to violence to get their hands on them.

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Undercover investigation of Smithfield Foods reveals factory farm horrors

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - By Brett Michael Dykes - Dec. 18 (Special Report) - The Lookout - If you enjoy eating pork occasionally, you might not want to read any further. But you probably should -- especially as America waits to learn the fate of the almost universally hailed food safety bill suddenly facing hurdles in Congress. This week the Humane Society released the results of its undercover investigation of a Virginia pig farm that's owned by Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world. A Humane Society investigator spent a month inside the Waverly, Va., facility, armed with a hidden camera

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