Charged with murder, son who stabbed house raider
A SON hailed a hero for tackling two teenage burglars, stabbing one of them to death, was charged with murder yesterday. Omari Roberts, 23, was widely praised after tackling Tyler Juett, 17, and a 14-year-old accomplice when he caught them breaking into his mother’s home. He chased the 14-year-old off, then returned to the...
Two Teenagers Nabbed For Spreading Rumour On Flu Vaccination In Seoul
SEOUL, Oct 29 (Bernama) — Police on Thursday caught two Seoul high school students for spreading false rumors about vaccinations against Influenza A (H1N1) through the Internet and cellphone text messages, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. One of the students, a freshman, was accused of uploading groundless...
Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null President Obama and his top health officials are engaging in a major public relations effort to divert attention away from whether its swine flu vaccine is effective and safe – to whether there is enough of it to go around. And the media, as always, is cooperating fully. This echoes the way media...
Turmoil from climate change poses security risks – Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – An island in the Indian Ocean, vital to the U.S. military, disappears as the sea level rises. Rivers critical to India and Pakistan shrink, increasing military tensions in South Asia. Drought, famine and disease forces population shifts and political turmoil in the Middle East. U.S. defense and intelligence agencies,...
‘Americans first’ before US donates H1N1 flu vaccine
WASHINGTON — The United States will not donate swine flu vaccine to poor countries until at-risk Americans have been inoculated against H1N1, an official said Wednesday. “As vaccine becomes more available, I think evaluation will be made as to when it’s appropriate for donation to begin, but I can tell you at this...
Coming in December: World government
It is impossible to overstate the importance of the climate-change treaty now being negotiated for adoption at the Copenhagen, Denmark, U.N. meeting in December. The Kyoto Protocol was bad enough. It required the United States to reduce its carbon emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. When fully implemented, the Kyoto...
‘Little Buddy’ GPS device keeps tabs on your kid
Best Buy is selling a transmitting device that lets parents keep track of their children. Parents can place the device in a child’s backpack or lunch box, for example. The “Little Buddy Child Tracker” retails for $100 (far less than other devices that sell for $200 to $500). It combines global satellite positioning...
Antipsychotic Drugs Cause Weight Gain in Children, Study Says
Antipsychotic drugs widely used in children caused youths to gain as much as 19 pounds on average after just 11 weeks on the medications, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings about the drugs, known as atypical antipsychotics, bolster concerns about giving the medicines...
Council bans parents from play areas
Parents have been banned from supervising their children in public playgrounds, because they have not undergone criminal record checks. Only council-vetted “play rangers” are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence. The Watford...
U.S. Home Vacancies Rise to 18.8 Million on Defaults
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) — About 18.8 million homes stood empty in the U.S. during the third quarter as banks seized properties from delinquent borrowers and new home sales fell in September. The number of vacant properties, including foreclosures, residences for sale and vacation homes, rose from 18.4 million a year earlier...
Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns
WASHINGTON — After a Somali-American teenager from Minneapolis committed a suicide bombing in Africa in October 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating whether a Somali Islamist group had recruited him on United States soil. Instead of collecting information only on people about whom they had a tip...
Paterson declares an H1N1 state of emergency
Gov. David Paterson declared an H1N1/swine flu emergency in New York state on Oct. 29, in an effort to help vaccinate the public faster. The executive order provides more flexibility to local governments, which are at the center of the largest national vaccination campaign in three decades. Paterson’s order allows more people—such...
The High Drama Behind Reid’s Public Option Decision
Today, everyone’s officially on the same page. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and his leadership team, and the White House all stand behind the Senate health care bill, which, as we learned this week, includes a public option. But the days leading up to Reid’s big Monday announcement were perhaps more trying...
Al-Qaeda sleeper agent sentenced to more than 8 years
An Al-Qaeda sleeper agent held for nearly six years without charge was sentenced Thursday to 100 months in prison after pleading guilty to supporting terrorism. Ali al-Marri was given credit for time served since 2003 in a navy brig, despite objections from prosecutors who had urged a federal US judge to impose a maximum sentence...
EU leaders clear major hurdle to reform treaty
European Union leaders on Thursday cleared a major obstacle holding up the massive Lisbon reform treaty, paving the way for a new-look EU with its first-ever president. At talks in Brussels, the leaders approved a proposal to satisfy a last-minute demand by the deeply eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus for his country...
Obama signs law blocking release of torture photos
President Barack Obama received a great deal of media attention on Wednesday for signing a historic hate-crimes bill into law. But, on the same day, the US president also signed a Homeland Security spending bill that received far less attention, even though it effectively blocks efforts by activists to reveal photos of detainee...
Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry
House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July. The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on...
House health bill clocks in at 1,990 pages
It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story. The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24...
7th-Grader: Obama, Most US Presidents Related
SALINAS, Calif. — A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one. BridgeAnne d’Avignon, who attends Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, traced that Obama, and all other U.S. presidents...
