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GOP Questions Sotomayor’s Link to Group
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 No commentsThe top Republican on the Senate committee that will consider Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination says a Puerto Rican civil rights group’s papers could shed light on her judicial approach, particularly her view of racial preferences in hiring.
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VP Biden urges Iraqis to make political progress (AP)
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 No comments
AP - Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq.More: continued here
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Iranian cleric: British Embassy staff to be tried (AP)
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 No comments
AP - EDITOR’S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.More: continued here
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Teen clung to Comoros plane wreckage for 13 hours (AP)
Posted on July 1st, 2009 No comments
AP - The lone survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash, who clung to wreckage for 13 hours before being rescued, lay in a hospital bed with a broken collarbone Wednesday, asking for little except for a chance to see her mother.More: continued here
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Honduras government’s isolation grows after coup (AP)
Posted on July 1st, 2009 No comments
AP - Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated Wednesday for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest. Thousands more rallied in favor of the military-backed government.More: continued here
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Contents of Jackson’s Will Disclosed
Posted on July 1st, 2009 No commentsMichael Jackson’s entire estate is going to a family trust — but his former wife Debbie Rowe will get nothing. The revelation comes after his 7-year-old will was filed in a Los Angeles court. The will also names the late pop icon’s mother, Katherine Jackson, as a beneficiary of the trust and the guardian of Jackson’s three young kids.
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Major military operation under way in Afghanistan (AP)
Posted on July 1st, 2009 No comments
AP - Thousands of U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops moved into Taliban-infested villages with armor and helicopters early Thursday in the first major operation under President Barack Obama’s revamped strategy to stabilize Afghanistan.More: continued here
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Mississippi Remains Most Obese State
Posted on July 1st, 2009 No commentsMississippi holds on to its ranking as the nation’s fattest state, with 32.5 percent of its population classified as obese, according to new health statistics. But it faces stiff competition from Alabama, whose obesity rate jumps to 31.2 percent because of a surge in heavy baby boomers. Adult obesity rates rose in 23 states and declined in none, the report says.
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Iraqis celebrate US pullback but bombing kills 27 (AP)
Posted on June 30th, 2009 No comments
AP - Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad’s background track. Left alone to protect the capital Tuesday were thousands of Iraqi troops and police manning checkpoints, with army tanks deployed at potential trouble spots and convoys of pickup trucks with machine guns roaming the streets.More: continued here
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UN tells Honduras to reinstate president (AP)
Posted on June 30th, 2009 No comments
AP - Honduras’ ousted president won overwhelming international support Tuesday as he planned a high-profile return to his chaotic country. The politicians who sent soldiers to fly him into exile in his pajamas said he will be arrested for treason if he tries.More: continued here
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