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Nominee faces heat over racy emails

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
The Obama administration's nominee for the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq has run into new opposition thanks to the publication of some racy e-mails suggesting an affair with a Wall Street Journal reporter while both worked in Baghdad.
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Racy e-mails surface on nominee

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
The Obama administration's nominee for the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq has run into new opposition thanks to the publication of some racy e-mails suggesting an affair with a Wall Street Journal reporter while both worked in Baghdad.
Categories: CNN, News

Public-employee pensions face a rollback in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Public-employee pensions face a rollback in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Public-employee pensions face a rollback in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Public-employee pensions face a rollback in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Public-employee pensions face a rollback in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

England made to battle by Windies

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
England's hopes of a series whitewash are frustrated as West Indies reach 280-8 on day three of the rain-hit third Test.
Categories: BBC, News

Dominant Vettel takes Canada pole

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel takes pole position at Montreal, ahead of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
Categories: BBC, News

Sharapova joy at French Open win

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
Maria Sharapova says winning the French Open is a bigger achievement than claiming her first Grand Slam at Wimbledon as a 17-year-old in 2004.
Categories: BBC, News

Danes stun Dutch; Germany wins

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
Denmark produced the first major surprise of Euro 2012 as Morten Olsen's side secured a 1-0 win over World Cup finalists Netherlands in Kharkiv.
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Spain to seek bailout for troubled banking sector

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
MADRID (AP) -- Spain will ask for a bank bailout from the eurozone, becoming the fourth and largest country to seek help since the single currency bloc's debt crisis erupted....

Calif. public-employee pensions face cuts

SAN DIEGO (AP) — For years, companies have been chipping away at workers' pensions. Now, two California cities may help pave the way for governments to follow suit.

Voters in San Diego and San Jose, the nation's eighth- and 10th-largest cities, overwhelmingly approved ballot measures last week to roll back ...

Farmers Say NAIS/ADT

NoNAIS - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51

The battle continues:

A coalition led by farmers and ranchers is using a last-minute strategy to stop USDA’s new Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program. The groups involved are using economic grounds - especially the added costs that animal identification will impose on rural America.

In a 9-page letter to the Executive Office of Management and Budget, a unit of the White House, the sixteen organizations in the coalition say animal traceability could cost the U.S. cattle industry more than $1 billion a year.
-FoodSafetyNews

Once again government wants to put the blame and financial burden on the small farmers with no compensations or benefit while not solving any actual problem. NAIS/ADT is really about export markets and profits for big producers. If they want a system of tracking then they should create their own private voluntary system, not one funded by tax payers. We small farmers don’t need NAIS/ADT. We know where are animals are and can trace them from breeding to the customer’s plate without any government “help.”

Do go read the article and contact your reps. The article is open to comments, leave your thoughts.

Sharapova wins big at French Open

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
The 2012 tournament's surprise package, Italian Errani, never came up with an answer to Maria Sharapova's strategy of power and unerring ball placement.
Categories: CNN, News

US, Pakistan beginning to look more like enemies

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 05:51
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- You know a friendship has gone sour when you start making mean jokes about your friend in front of his most bitter nemesis....
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