Sunday 20th May, 2012
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng goes to US
Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has been allowed to leave China for a trip to the United States. Chen, with his wife and children, left China in a quiet departure on Saturday on board a US ...
Facebook caught up in privacy allegations
US Facebook users have filed a lawsuit against the social network. A group of Californian users are seeking damages for invasion of privacy and improper tracking. The members of the social ...
Tropical storm Alberto churns off Southeast coast
This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 19, 2012, shows tropical storm Alberto 140 miles (225 km) east of Charleston, S.C. Alberto is the first tropical storm of the season and formed Saturday ...
World leaders set to tackle Afghanistan's future
San Diego Union-TribuneA plane takes off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport in between the arrival of world leaders attending the NATO Summit, on Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Chicago. Security has been high ...
Blind Chinese Activist Chen Arrives In New York; China Still Keeps Up Pressure On His Supporters
IBTimesBlind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest, enjoyed his initial hours of freedom in New York Saturday even as his relatives and supporters are facing the ire of Chinese ...
Large Colo. Wildfire Nearly Contained
ABC NewsFire crews took advantage of lower temperatures and higher humidity to make key advances on a large wildfire in northern Colorado, one of several burning across the West. Officials said the blaze ...
Protesters prepare for larger NATO demonstration
San Diego Union-TribuneAnti-NATO protestors form a barricade in front of mounted police officers during a march, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in Chicago. On Sunday, the start of the two-day NATO summit, thousands of protesters ...
November is Native American Heritage Month in Oregon Coast Town
Beach Connection(Lincoln City, Oregon) – All of November swells with a special kind of American pride in Lincoln City: Native American Heritage Month fills the Lincoln City Cultural Center with bundles of ...
American recall of Jeep Wranglers
West AustralianChrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the United States, Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires.US safety regulators say the recall affects only Wranglers from the 2010 model ...
Chinese activist renews call to fight injustice
San Diego Union-TribuneBlind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York. Chen escaped from his village in April ...
Facebook's Eduardo Saverin To Host "America's Next Top Tax Lawyer"
Forbesr eal tax lawyers need a set, judges, and most important, a host. But who? Imagine contestants standing expectantly before tax savvy Eduardo Saverin. Or perhaps the tax lawyer equivalent of Tyra ...
Fast food fan's pilgrimage from New York to Dubai
The NationalA pizza girdled with mini cheeseburgers seems so unlikely that one man flew from New York to Dubai just to check it out. Not only is it available, but it is available only in the UAE - a market ...
Schmidt Leaves White House Cyber Post in Strong Position for Seasoned Veteran Michael Daniel to ...
Tag-IT NewsWASHINGTON, DC - The Business Software Alliance (BSA) praised in a press release the accomplishments of outgoing White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt, who has announced he will leave ...
Was Christopher Columbus secretly a Jew?
CNN>Editor's note: Charles Garcia is the CEO of Garcia Trujillo, a business focused on the Hispanic market, and the author of "Leadership Lessons of the White House Fellows. " A native of Panama, he ...
Subverting America's laws and values
MENAFN(MENAFN - Arab News) Extraordinary rendition is back in the news. Last week Khaled Masri, a German citizen of Syrian descent, one of its victims, took his case for adjudication to the Grand Chamber ...
MLS: New York stay top, Galaxy go down
SoccernetDane Richards netted for the 10-man New York Red Bulls as they maintained their place at the top of the MLS Eastern Conference with a 2-1 win at the Montreal ...
U.S. marks 150th anniversary of Homestead Act offering free land
ReutersOMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday marks the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln signing the Homestead Act, the law that gave away 270 million acres of land and ...
G-8 Warns North Korea About Further Provocations
ABC NewsThe Group of Eight world leaders has warned North Korea that it faces more sanctions if it continues to threaten the stability of the region with provocative acts such as its failed long-range ...
Americans held after Haiti protest
Independent.ieHaiti moved to crack down on a band of former and would-be soldiers who had been staging protests for more than a year, closing two old military bases they had occupied and locking up dozens of ...
Private rocket suffers failure to launch
Independent.ieA new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground yesterday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.The ignition ...
RFK Jr's custody fight blamed for wife's death
Independent.ieRFK Jr is taking a savage beating in the press following the suicide of his estranged wife Mary Richardson, 52, last Wednesday. The 58-year-old environmental activist, who has been dating ...
Rubio: Obama most 'divisive figure' in politics
MSNBCBy NBC's Andrew Rafferty COLUMBIA, SC -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Saturday slammed President Barack Obama for being the most divisive figure in American politics."The man who today ...
MLS: New York 2, Montreal 1
UPIDane Richards' first goal of the season Saturday proved decisive in Red Bull New York's 2-1 victory over Montreal. The goal came in the 67th minute when Richards slammed the rebound of a ...
Christine Quinn, New York City Council Speaker, Marries Longtime Partner
New York TimesNew York City Council and a leading candidate to be mayor, married her longtime partner, Kim M. Catullo, on Saturday evening, in one of the most prominent same-sex weddings of a public official to ...
White House says it doesn't expect to resolve supply line debate with Pakistan at summit
Fox NewsMay 17, 2012: Pakistani protesters shout anti-American slogans at a rally to condemn to the reopening of the NATO supply line to neighboring Afghanistan, in Multan, ...
This couple's house is 'Made in America'
Orlando SentinelGreg and Jennifer Gent are building their house along Lake Conway in Belle Isle completely from American-made products. (Gary W. Green, Orlando Sentinel / May 19, ...
Season's first Atlantic tropical storm forms off South Carolina
ReutersMIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Alberto formed off the South Carolina coast on Saturday, bringing an early start to the Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center ...
Chicago protests on eve of NATO summit raucous, peaceful
ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators staged raucous protests against Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's budget cuts and other economic issues on the eve of the NATO summit, but police said ...
Iowa town wrestles with aftermath of 'Bully' documentary
USA TodayGass was a seventh-grader on the ride home from middle school, just sitting and talking to a friend, he says, when he turned his head and realized that a knife was being held to his neck. "You want ...
Insurance Claims, County Regulations Up Ante In Dog Biting Cases
CBS 5CONTRA COSTA COUNTY (CBS 5) – Dog bite claims are way up across the nation and, according to the Insurance Information Network, California leads the pack. If it's your dog doing the ...
Fatal Motorcycle Crash In San Mateo County
CBS 5SAN MATEO COUNTY (CBS SF) — A motorcyclist died after going off the edge of remote, windy road near Memorial Park in the Loma Mar area of San Mateo County, according to the San Mateo County ...
Coast Guard Finds Woman’s Body In Waters Outside Golden Gate
CBS 5SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A woman’s body was pulled from the waters off Point Diablo Saturday morning after being seen by fisherman. The body was retrieved by the Coast Guard 7:45 a.m., ...
Groups urge earlier age deadline for Mich. kindergartners
USA TodayThey're the ones who would rather play when it's time for reading and math. They struggle to stay focused. And developmentally, they don't seem ready for the rigors of today's kindergarten ...
Yachting: Final race of America's Cup series wide open
New Zealand HeraldTomorrow's final race will decide the winner of the Venice leg of the America's Cup World Series championship as it's tight at the top of the fleet race leader board after three days of racing in ...
Joplin emerges from tornado's devastation a year later
USA TodayA year ago, the couple emerged from a crawl space in their heavily damaged home to find their trees gone and their close-knit neighborhood flattened. The spot where the poppy, daisy and clover seeds ...
Tropical storm watch issued for parts of SC coast
San Diego Union-TribuneThis NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 19, 2012, shows tropical storm Alberto 140 miles (225 km) east of Charleston, S.C. Alberto is the first tropical storm of the season and formed Saturday ...
White House, Pakistan in talks on supply lines
San Diego Union-TribuneCHICAGO -; The White House says it is not expecting to finish negotiations with Pakistan over reopening key supply lines during the NATO ...
News Analysis: The Debate Over the American Community Survey
New York TimesBut last week, the Republican-led House voted to eliminate the survey altogether, on the grounds that the government should not be butting its nose into Americans’ ...
NHL: New York Rangers beat New Jersey Devils 3-0
The GuardianNHL Eastern Conference finals.Dan Girardi and Chris Kreider scored in less than two minutes early in the third period to help them take a 2-1 series lead.Lundqvist was busy from the opening faceoff ...
2 Americans jailed in Haiti in pro-army march
CBS News(AP) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti moved to crack down on a band of former and would-be soldiers who had been staging protests for more than a year, closing two old military bases they had occupied ...
Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Marries Sweetheart Priscilla Chan
CBS 5Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg (2nd L) and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan (3rd R) holding flowers offered to them by local tourist officials during their private trip to Ha Long Bay in ...
Oakland Uptown Development Breaks Ground, Hopes To Attract ‘Working Class’
CBS 5OAKLAND (KCBS)-- Change is coming to a long-vacant lot in Oakland’s re-surging Uptown neighborhood as ground has been broken on a new housing development that will cater to working class ...
Fire engulfs La. frat house, no serious injuries
San Diego Union-TribuneRUSTON, La. -; A fire gutted a Louisiana Tech University fraternity house on Saturday, resulting in minor injuries to three firefighters but none to ...
American Idol: I Hate To Say I Told You So
Forbes(Photo By Wikipedia) When you're right, you're right, and when it came to Season 11 of American Idol, I was right. Way back in mid-March, over two months ...
New York City's most senior openly gay official weds
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Christine Quinn, New York's highest-ranking openly gay official and the leading candidate to be the city's next mayor, married her longtime girlfriend on Saturday, ...
IHT Rendezvous: What Chen Guangcheng's Arrival in America Means
New York TimesPrint The world seemed to be watching United flight 88 from Beijing to Newark, New Jersey, across the bay from New York City, as Chen Chenguang, made his way with his wife and two children out of ...
Weather helps battle against Southwest wildfires
ReutersPHOENIX (Reuters) - Improving weather helped firefighters in Arizona make progress on Saturday against wildfires that have charred more than 65 square miles (168 square km) of forest, brush and ...
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