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A tornado in Oklahoma A mile wide and howling
The pity of Moore KIRA BORDWINE saw the tornado charging in from the day-care centre where she minded seven one-year-olds, including her daughter. "It was the most unreal thing ever," she says. "As soon as I saw the debris flying like you do on TV, I grabbed all the mattresses that we could and flung them over our heads...It lasted, it felt like five minutes, but it was the ...
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Intellectual property Fighting China’s hackers
IT SOUNDS like an airport thriller: a near-future in which American firms wage private cyber-combat against Chinese rivals. But precisely that scenario is being considered by former senior American officials, who report that intellectual property (IP) is being stolen on an unprecedented scale, and that passive defences no longer work. Annual losses from the theft of American IP are probably on ...
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New York state politics Riotous assembly
CALLED "Gropez" by a tabloid, Vito Lopez, a Brooklyn assemblyman, groped or harassed at least eight young female staffers, according to a new report by New York state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE). It paints an unflattering picture of the former head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party. Speaking about a 14-year-old intern, Mr Lopez allegedly lamented the existence of ...
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Los Angeles’s mayoral election Who
Now do something about the congestion LOS ANGELES has a new mayor-elect. The question is whether anyone noticed. In a run-off on May 21st Eric Garcetti (pictured), a longtime city councilman, defeated his opponent, Wendy Greuel, by 54%-46%. The election followed an interminable campaign waged by two Democratic City Hall insiders, neither of whom strained to fight the widespread perception ...
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Charlemagne Hobbling behind America
EUROPEANS like to blame America for their crisis. But look at the numbers, and it is plain the euro zone has mishandled its response. Take growth: output in America has surpassed its pre-crisis peak and is growing; the euro zone has yet to make up the lost ground and is shrinking. Or joblessness: it stood at 10% on both sides of the Atlantic in 2009, but it has now fallen below 8% in America ...
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Crime and punishment Cell phones
Hurry up, mum; this call has already cost me my shirt MOST of the roughly 2.2m incarcerated Americans will eventually be freed. Those who remain in contact with loved ones on the outside are less likely, studies show, to return to a life of crime after serving their time. Much as voters hate criminals, they also have an interest in not being mugged. So why do prisons make it so hard for ...
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Lexington Rand Paul’s dream
WHEN pondering a run for national office, it must be bittersweet to hear fans gush that your strong suit is being less of a crank than your dad. But that is the view of many Republicans who admire Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky and star of the shrink-the-government right. They call him a worthy heir to his father, Ron Paul--a cult figure among libertarians, longtime congressman and serial ...
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The IRS scandal Who will tame the taxman
WHEN Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month, he doubtless hoped to quell the hullabaloo about its seemingly partial treatment of applications for tax-exempt status from conservative groups. He failed. This week protests were held outside several IRS offices, and Congress continued to investigate. The bureaucrat at the heart of the row refused ...
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Obama Meets With Illegal Aliens in White House
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three young people at the White House Tuesday who are in the country illegally but received "deferred action" status under the executive action taken by the administration last June. In all, Obama and Biden met with eight people advocating for comprehensive immigration reform on Tuesday, according to White ...
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Four Ways The Feds Are Making State Marijuana Legalization Even Tougher Than You Think
Most people are aware of the ongoing conflict between federal and state laws on marijuana. While marijuana remains flatly prohibited and subject to criminal punishment under federal law, 19 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, and two have legalized recreational marijuana. The most pressing and well-known issue for medical marijuana dispensaries and the customers ...
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McConnell argues IRS should not be handed Obamacare
Sen. Mitch McConnell contends that the American people do not trust the IRS, and due to a recent political scandal, the IRS should have a limited amount of influence over the handling of the Affordable Care ...
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IRS official pleads the fifth should that right have been revoked
Rep. Pete Roskam, R-Ill., a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, joins The Daily Rundown guest host Peter Alexander to talk about the IRS hearings and whether or not Congress can legally make IRS official Lois Lerner answer more questions regarding the ...
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How should Obama address the drone policy
john podesta is chairman for the center of american progress and he was clinton's chief of staff. nice to meet with you and thank you for your time. i want to ask you about an op-ed you wrote. you called for the president to go public with the justification of the drone program and swroit beyond dispute that some information must be closely held to ...
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Senate to debate immigration
Voto Latino's Maria Teresa Kumar, Politico's Rachel Smolkin and RSLC President Chris Jankowski join The Daily Rundown to discuss the next steps for immigration reform, President Barack Obama's speech on counter terrorism, and give their shameless ...
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Corporate Americas hoarding more and more cash even as the economy improves
The cash is piling up at home in part as companies such as General Electric Co. and chemical maker PPG Industries Inc. sell assets and Caterpillar Inc. cuts capital spending. Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Co. Any lament that U.S. executives are sitting on cash at their companies instead of investing in plants and equipment may be about to get louder. ...
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Cleveland Cavaliers Claim Top Draft Pick
HOUSTON (CBS Houston) The Cleveland Cavaliers claimed the No. 1 overall pick at the 2013 NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday night. Tuesday’s top seed for Cleveland marks the second time in three years that the team has won the lottery; point guard Kyrie Irving was their top selection in 2011. Although the Orlando Magic entered the lottery with the best chances of securing the top pick, they ...
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East Bay Tree-Cutting Proposal To Reduce Fire Hazard Criticized
OAKLAND (KCBS) - Opponents of a fire hazard reduction plan for the East Bay hills are calling it a guise to conduct massive clear-cutting of the area. University of California, Berkeley, the city of Oakland and the East Bay Regional Parks District have jointly applied for a federal grant that would fund the ...
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Bicyclist Run Over Killed By Garbage Truck In San Francisco
A mangled bicycle lies on the ground at the intersection of 16th St. and South Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco following a fatal crash with a garbage truck, May 23, 2013. ...
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Media take gloves off with Obama
>Editor's note: Howard Kurtz is the host of CNN's "Reliable Sources. "(CNN) -- The press has turned on President Obama with a vengeance. Suddenly, the White House briefing room is filled with confrontational questions. Suddenly, the news pages are ablaze with scandal, and the commentators -- even some of the president's usual defenders -- are bemoaning his ...
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Exaggerate terror threats
>Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive. " (CNN) -- Terrorism causes fear, and we overreact to that fear. Our brains aren't very good at probability and risk analysis. We tend to exaggerate spectacular, strange and rare events, and downplay ordinary, familiar and common ...
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Feds Take Over California High-Risk Insurance Program
About 17,000 Californians with serious medical problems will be moved from a state-run stopgap health insurance program to a federal plan starting in July, ensuring they will have no break in medical coverage until the national health care reforms kick in next year, state officials announced this week. The state board that oversees the California Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan said ...
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Drone Attacks Accidentally Killed Americans Obama Administration Reveals
Holder confirmed that Anwar al-Awlaki, whose death in a September 2011 drone strike in Yemen was already widely known, was targeted for death by the U.S. government. Al-Awlaki, the administration determined, was a "continuing and imminent threat" who could not feasibly be captured. The attorney general disclosed that al-Awlaki's death was planned more than a year before a ...
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Remember him Anthony Weiner bets on political forgiveness ahead of New York mayoralty run
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) holds a press conference about sending photos of himself to other women, in New York on June 6, 2011. (RICHARD ...
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Ex-teacher due in federal court in child porn case
WASHINGTON -; A former elementary school teacher who was on the FBI's list of most wanted fugitives is due in federal court on a child pornography ...
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Congress clears bill on lying about medals
The Stolen Valor Act cleared the Senate Wednesday and the House earlier this week. The act makes it a crime to lie about military medals, if the purpose is to benefit from the ...
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