AP - 1. “Knock Out: An FBI Thriller” by Catherine Coulter (Putnam Adult)
Reuters - Former “Star Trek: Voyager” heroine Jeri Ryan is set to play a recurring role on the TNT vigilante drama “Leverage,” which begins its second season next month.
Reuters - Former “Star Trek: Voyager” heroine Jeri Ryan is set to play a recurring role on the TNT vigilante drama “Leverage,” which begins its second season next month.
AP - The White House says it likes its chances as the climate bill heads toward a House vote.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) — Hundreds of gene variations
that may be associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) have been identified by U.S. researchers.
AP - Renowned dinosaur hunter Nathan Murphy was sentenced Wednesday to four months in a halfway house and three years probation after pleading guilty to stealing fossils.
Reuters - Seven years is an appropriate time period to protect brand-name biotechnology medicines from cheaper generic rivals, White House officials said in a letter released on Thursday.
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (OneWorld.net) - With the coincidence of three major crises, the world is at a crossroads. Global leaders should take this opportunity to launch a “Green New Deal” to secure good social standards, economic regulation, and environmental protection across the globe, environmental and policy experts advised at a forum here Tuesday.
LiveScience.com - If you thought piranhas were scary, be glad Megapiranha is no longer around.
AP - A bird-bone flute unearthed in a German cave was carved some 35,000 years ago and is the oldest handcrafted musical instrument yet discovered, archaeologists say, offering the latest evidence that early modern humans in Europe had established a complex and creative culture.
PC World - As the first half of 2009 comes to a close, the big question for tech companies is whether the recession will ease up enough to spur spending increases for IT by the end of the year.
PC World - People often turn to me for advice regarding what anti-virus package to get. Usually I recommend McAfee or AVG, but Security Essentials will be my go-to anti-malware package once itâs released from beta. For small-business and home users, the price, performance, and ease-of-use of MSE canât be beat.
Reuters - China on Thursday stepped up accusations that Google is spreading obscene content over the Internet, a day after U.S. officials urged Beijing to abandon plans for controversial filtering software on new computers.
Macworld.com - The Associated Press has an iPhone app. So does AccuWeather.com, the Pennsylvania-based weather service. And just like the chocolate-peanut butter experiments conducted at Reeseâs Labs in the â70s and â80s, someone wondered whether these two great news sources would go great together.
AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday it will no longer use great apes in its advertisements after animal rights activists complained about an ad by the wireless provider that features a chimpanzee.
Reuters - Communist Cuba may boast a doctor on every block and schools for all its children, but when it comes to telephones, computers and the Internet it lags behind other countries in the hemisphere, a government report showed on Thursday.
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AP - The Internet agency with key oversight of the monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post named former U.S. cybersecurity chief Rod Beckstrom Friday as its next chief executive.
AP - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday that prices for the Windows 7 computer operating system are largely in line with those for Vista, and that consumers who buy PCs before the new system goes on sale in October will get free upgrades.
Bloomberg - June 25 (Bloomberg) — After disappearing from South
Carolina for a week, Governor Mark Sanford said he was in
Argentina seeing a woman with whom heâd had an affair for the
past year.
Bloomberg - June 26 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama should avoid
a âtit-for-tatâ with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Iranâs election
dispute, and maintain focus on the longer-term U.S. interest in
curbing the regimeâs nuclear program, two former top Clinton
administration officials said.
AP - EDITORS: The Russia alcohol deaths story will be retransmitted at a later time.
AP - Federal safety officials said Thursday they are investigating two incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 planes may have malfunctioned, including one that took place ten days before the same type of plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 aboard.
Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote on Friday on one of the most significant environmental bills in history — a sprawling measure that aims to wean industry off of carbon-emitting fuels blamed for global warming.
Politico - The proposal would create a public insurance option.
AP - For years, landowners have gotten paid for not farming. Now they may get paid for not cutting down trees.
AP - President Barack Obama pushed urgently Thursday for passage of legislation to confront global warming, billing it as a job-creating machine rather than the costly “job killer” Republicans denounced. He telephoned wavering Democrats on the eve of what could be a historic House vote.
AP - Senators working to give President Barack Obama a comprehensive health care overhaul said Thursday they had figured out how to pare back the complex legislation to keep costs from crashing through a $1 trillion, 10-year ceiling.
AFP - Weight-loss surgery that curbs food intake by stitching up parts of the stomach or small intestine reduces the risk of cancer in obese women by more than 40 percent, according to a study released Thursday.
Reuters - Sinus infections may cause more than 20 percent of all cases of toxic shock syndrome in children, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Reuters - Nearly half the HIV-positive U.S. adolescents and young adults are unaware of their infection, and less than a quarter of sexually active high school students are tested for the virus, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 24 (HealthDay News) — A new cancer drug called
olaparib worked well in an early clinical trial against breast, ovarian
and prostate cancers in individuals who were genetically vulnerable to
developing these malignancies.
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests a
relationship between low levels of omega-3 fatty acids and an increased
risk of depression in heart patients.
Time.com - Growing evidence suggests that social activity is associated with preserving mental and physical fitness in older age
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) — Despite having one of the
highest rates of obesity in America, the poor are less likely to undergo
weight loss surgery than obese people who are better off financially, new
research shows.
AP - People exposed to rabies need only four vaccinations, not the five currently recommended, a vaccine advisory committee said Wednesday. In the past, rabies shots were dreaded almost as much as the disease itself. Until the 1970s, an encounter with a rabid animal led to at least 14 shots in the abdomen. But vaccines have improved, and five shots in the arm or thigh have been the U.S. standard for more than 20 years.
AP - When it comes to health care spending, an ounce of prevention is seldom worth a pound of cure. Take Mrs. Jones, a hypothetical 55-year-old obese woman at risk for diabetes. It costs $900 a year to hire a personal lifestyle coach to help her lose weight and prevent diabetes. Suppose that the coaching works for Mrs. Jones, and she is spared diabetes and all the resulting health bills.
AP - Senators working to give President Barack Obama a comprehensive health care overhaul said Thursday they had figured out how to pare back the complex legislation to keep costs from crashing through a $1 trillion, 10-year ceiling.
AP - Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected. The estimate voiced by a government flu scientist Thursday was no surprise to the experts who have been closely watching the virus.
Reuters - The federal government has agreed to accept $25 billion of preferred stock in two American International Group Inc businesses as partial repayment of debt, the company said on Thursday.
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Reuters - General Motors Corp needs to exit from bankruptcy quickly in order to avoid a “fatal” blow to many of its suppliers and the loss of thousands of jobs, Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said in a court filing on Thursday.
Reuters - Palm Inc posted a narrower-than-expected fiscal fourth quarter loss on Thursday, and highlighted strong demand for its just-unveiled Pre smartphone.
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Reuters - Texas financier Allen Stanford will spend another night in a Texas jail after he pleaded not guilty on Thursday to 21 criminal charges that he ran a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
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Reuters - Stocks rallied on Thursday as investors were relieved Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke withstood a barrage of pointed questions from Congress on the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal relatively unscathed.
AP - The U.S. Olympic swimming trials will return to Omaha in 2012, with a temporary pool again being set up inside the Qwest Center.
AP - Paul Spadafora, a former IBF lightweight champion fighting for the first time in 14 months, knocked out Ivan Bustos on Wednesday night.
AP - Former Michigan coach Brian Ellerbe is returning to the bench after an eight-year absence.
AP - Seahawks fullback Owen Schmitt has apologized for “poor judgment” after getting arrested in a Seattle suburb for investigation of drunken driving.
AP - Vince Carter is going home to Orlando, and to the Eastern Conference champion Magic.
AP - Blake Griffin was the consensus No. 1 pick. Shaq to the Cavs was the consensus blockbuster.
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 25 (OneWorld.net) - With the coincidence of three major crises, the world is at a crossroads. Global leaders should take this opportunity to launch a “Green New Deal” to secure good social standards, economic regulation, and environmental protection across the globe, environmental and policy experts advised at a forum here Tuesday.
Time.com - French investigators looking into the 2002 suicide attack in Karachi have uncovered new evidence they say suggests the culprits were not jihadists linked to al-Qaeda, as originally suspected, but Pakistani military and intelligence personnel
AP - As of Thursday, June 26, 2009, at least 4,316 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
AP - Rapper T.I. gave his fans a rousing send-off before he heads to prison on a federal weapons conviction.
AP - Rapper T.I. gave his fans a rousing send-off before he heads to prison on a federal weapons conviction.
Reuters - Iran and Pakistan signed a framework agreement on Sunday to export Iranian natural gas to the neighbouring country during a visit by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to Tehran, Iranian news agencies reported.
SPACE.com - CAPE
CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis landed safely in California on Sunday,
bringing home seven triumphant astronauts after their successful service call
on the beloved Hubble Space Telescope.
AP - Environmental group Mountain Justice says six people arrested on trespassing charges during a coal mining protest are still jailed.
Reuters - When it comes to choosing a mate, opposites really do attract, according to a Brazilian study that found people are subconsciously more likely to choose a partner whose genetic make-up is different to their own.
AFP - The space shuttle Atlantis made a picture perfect landing in Calfornia, nearly two days behind schedule at the end of a successful mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble telescope.
AFP - Energy ministers from G8 countries on Sunday heard that oil prices could again soar when the global economic crisis eases and demand returns, requiring new investment to head off the possibility.
LiveScience.com - Despite current economic woes, a new study based on global survey
data finds optimism to be universal. Sunny outlooks are most prevalent
in Ireland, Brazil, Denmark, and New Zealand.
AP - Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases.
AP - Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday, detouring from stormy Florida to sunsplashed California to end a 13-day mission that repaired and enhanced the Hubble Space Telescope.
AFP - US social networking site Facebook on Saturday said it had received reports its wesbite had been blocked in Iran, lamenting the apparent government bar as “a shame.”
PC World - More supposed details are leaking out about the next version of Appleâs 3.0 software update for the iPhone and iPod Touch set to be unveiled next month.
PC World - Apple removed two iPhone applications from its App Store that allegedly infringed on the trademark of Cartier International, according to the Wall Street Journal.
AP - The $1.6 million red Bugatti crouches in the showroom, flanked by Lamborghinis, Bentleys and a Rolls-Royce all polished to a shimmer. The nearby potted plants, however, are dusty and wilting. With super-luxury car sales here just half of what they used to be, they had to cut something.
AP - The Web edition of a cover story from Fortune this spring took a sharp turn from what you might expect at a 79-year-old magazine.
Bloomberg - May 25 (Bloomberg) — Former Secretary of State Colin
Powell challenged former Vice President Dick Cheney and talk
show host Rush Limbaugh over the future of the Republican Party,
saying it must be more inclusive or âwatch the world go by.â
AFP - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner dismissed as ridiculous charges that the administration of President Barack Obama was moving the United States toward socialism.
AP - A strong earthquake struck southern Macedonia near the Greek border on Sunday night, damaging dozens of homes, an official said. No casualties were immediately reported.
AP - Not so fast, gun owners. A new law allowing loaded guns in national parks and wildlife refuges will not take effect until next year, the Obama administration said Friday.
AP - GOP senator says party could filibuster Supreme Court pick over feelings or emotions
Politico - POLITICO ranks the top five (and a few honorable mentions) most potent email lists in politics.
Politico - Colin Powell defends Republican credentials and fires back at Limbaugh, Cheney.
AP - Members of Congress from both parties clamored Sunday for President Barack Obama to develop a plan for dealing with the suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay if he intends to fulfill his promise to close its prison by early 2010. The top U.S. military officer also awaited a decision from the commander in chief.
Reuters - Consumer nations on Sunday urged producers to keep oil prices stable or risk derailing a fragile global economic recovery, as top exporter Saudi Arabia forecast prices eventually moving toward $75 a barrel.
Reuters - Magna International and Fiat have improved their offers for General Motors unit Opel ahead of a crucial week in which the German government is expected to decide which bid to back.
Reuters - Wall Street may feel more pressure next week unless a raft of economic data, including
AP - There is no easy fix.