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The House passed a bill Tuesday afternoon providing $26.1 billion to cash-strapped state governments, and preventing roughly 161,000 teachers and 158,000 public works employees from being laid off. The vote was 247-161. Democratic leadership has been under tremendous pressure to pass legislation before the start of the school year policy-wise, and before the November elections […]
A frustrated JetBlue flight attendant allegedly fled his plane via emergency chute — beer in hand — after getting into a fight with a passenger and then cursing out the entire cabin over a loudspeaker. Click here for the entire story.
(via khou.com) JUNEAU, Alaska—A plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens and ex-NASA chief Sean O’Keefe crashed near a remote fishing village in Alaska, killing the longtime senator and at least four others, authorities said Tuesday. The plane crashed Monday night near a remote fishing village in Alaska. Defense contractor EADS North America confirmed in a statement […]
When Spike Lee speaks people listen. The folks doing the listening are the journalists tasking part in the Television Critics Association confab being held in LA. He’s outraged and says the U.S. government report that 75 percent of the spilled Gulf Coast oil is gone is a ‘lie.” Saturday, Lee told journalists that they should […]
Via Eurweb: Below is a CBS News report about the backlash toward the Spain vacation taken by First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughter Sasha. Some folks believe the expensive trip is in poor taste when many Americans are struggling under the bad economy. The New York Daily News called Mrs. Obama Marie Antoinette, the […]
Forty billionaires have responded to the challenge by philanthropists Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to publicly pledge the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. It’s called The Giving Pledge. Click here to read the full story.
From The York Daily News Frustrated over the demands of raising an autistic child, police believe, a Bronx mother shot the boy to death before turning the gun on herself Wednesday night, cops said. Micaela Jackson, 37, and Kenneth Holmes, 12, both killed by a gunshot to the head, were found in bed in the […]
Soon after a BP wellhead exploded in the Gulf of Mexico spewing a jillion gallons in to the waters off the coast of Louisiana, the British company started the business of cleaning up the worst oil spill United States’ history.
President Obama will break another barrier of sorts: He’ll become the first sitting U.S. President to appear on a daytime talk show.
The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Depression #3 formed in the Bahamas on Thursday morning. Its current forecast path has it heading in the direction of the oil spill.
All hail to the king and queen — of catfish.
Titus Gurnell is a Boy Scout, an Honor Roll student, a classical piano player and now you can add life saver to his list of accomplishments. When his neighbor Valeria Chavez was bitten by a venomous snake, Titus quickly jumped into action. “There was an excruciating pain,” Chavez recalled. “It started swelling, and it was […]
