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Issa: DOJ can avoid Holder contempt vote

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
A week before his committee is scheduled to hold a vote on a resolution holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa told the Department of Justice Wednesday it still has a chance to produce materials about the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-running operation and avoid a public vote.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Gamers gravitating to multiscreens

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Multiscreen gaming is emerging as a major trend as consumers increasingly access games through their PCs, consoles, tablets and smartphones.
Categories: CNN, News

Henninger: Would Harry Truman Blame Paris?

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Here's pro-growth advice no one in Europe will take: Stop listening to the IMF bleeders and the Obama spenders.


Rio hears call for sustainability

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Scientists worldwide join forces to demand tougher action on consumption and population at next week's Rio+20 summit.
Categories: BBC, News

Edward Lazear: Whose Fault Is Today's Bad Economy?

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
What we're experiencing is a new wave of slowdowns, not a continuation of past problems.


Canadian porn actor ordered held in dismembering

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
BERLIN (AP) -- A Berlin court has ordered the Canadian suspect in the slaying and dismembering of a Chinese student in Montreal be held in pre-extradition custody as his likely return to Canada edges closer, authorities said Wednesday....

Canadian porn actor ordered held in dismembering

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
BERLIN (AP) -- A Berlin court has ordered the Canadian suspect in the slaying and dismembering of a Chinese student in Montreal be held in pre-extradition custody as his likely return to Canada edges closer, authorities said Wednesday....

Police looking for NY surgeon in woman's death

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Police were searching for a trauma surgeon Wednesday as a "person of interest" in a fatal shooting at a Buffalo hospital, and warned the public that the former Army Special Forces weapons expert may be armed and dangerous....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

VIDEO: Redknapp departure a 'shame' - McClaren

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Former England manager Steve McClaren believes Harry Redknapp's decision to leave Tottenham Hotspur is "not a footballing one".
Categories: BBC, News

John Edwards is officially in the clear

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
The move comes less than two weeks after a jury acquitted the former presidential candidate on one of six counts in his corruption trial and deadlocked on the other five.
Categories: CNN, News

Euro 2012 analysis: Super Mario shows Dutch how it's done

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
How Mario Gomez fired Germany to the brink of the European Championship quarter-finals
Categories: BBC, News

Dimon Takes the Hill

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
The J.P. Morgan CEO has an old-fashioned word for Senators.


Viewpoint: What next for Habbo?

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Habbo's sexual predators raises wider issues
Categories: BBC, News

Bad times for global markets

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Are there any reasons for hope on global markets?
Categories: BBC, News

Chancellor hails banking reforms

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Chancellor George Osborne says "taxpayers will be better protected when things go wrong" thanks to banking reforms outlined by the government.
Categories: BBC, News

Fire forces 200 to leave train

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
Up to 200 people are forced to leave a train in south-east London after a small fire on board but there are no reports of injuries.
Categories: BBC, News

Shock at Chinese abortion photo

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
A photo of a foetus whose mother was forced to have an abortion while seven months pregnant shocks Chinese web users and sparks an inquiry.
Categories: BBC, News

Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
A New York Sun editorial remembering Ronald Reagan's 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall.


VIDEO: Ceremony remembers Falklands dead

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
A ceremony has been held in the Falkland Islands to pay tribute to those who died during the conflict with Argentina.
Categories: BBC, News

Is Syria in a civil war?

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-17 06:58
The U.N. peacekeeping chief says Syria is now in a civil war.
Categories: CNN, News
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