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News FeedWall Street Journal - July 31, 2010
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip-Israeli warplanes fired missiles at five targets across Gaza, killing a senior commander of the Hamas military wing and wounding 11 people, the group said Saturday....[view article]
What They Know About You
Wall Street Journal - July 31, 2010
Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and others have created "preference managers" that let you see, and change, the interests they've assigned to you based on your browsing behavior. The companies acted partly in response to concerns about the privacy of the people they're tracking....[view article]
US economic growth slows to 2.4%BBC - July 31, 2010
US economic growth slowed between April and June, with GDP growing by an annualised rate of 2.4%, the US Commerce Department has said....[view article]
July is deadliest month of Afghanistan war for USBBC - July 31, 2010
American forces have experienced their deadliest month in the nine-year-old Afghan war, with 66 US service members killed in July. The death toll crept up again on Friday as three more American soldiers died - two from a roadside bomb - in the south of the country, Nato confirmed....[view article]
Democrats Under Fire Over Health-Law Reporting MandateWall Street Journal - July 30, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats may water down or repeal new tax-reporting rules that are supposed to raise $16 billion for health-care legislation, facing a chorus of criticism about the rules....[view article]
Feds, parish presidents discuss cleanup at "contentious" meetingCNN - July 30, 2010
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- What's next now that the oil stopped flowing, and what will happen when BP's crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico is finally, permanently sealed?...[view article]
HIV+, abortion exempt from recordOneNewsNow.com - July 30, 2010
Under the terms of the new economic stimulus law signed by President Obama last year, electronic health records will be kept on Americans beginning in 2014 -- but not everything has to be reported....[view article]
Christian nursing student brutally assaultedVoice of the Martyrs - July 30, 2010
Magdalene Ashraf, a 22-year-old Christian nurse trainee, was brutally attacked on July 13 by several Muslim men who raped her and threw her from the fourth-floor window of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center in Karachi, Pakistan....[view article]
Ruling Is New Hot-Button Issue in Hot SeasonWall Street Journal - July 29, 2010
Jane Norton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Colorado, had a hunch that by dinnertime Wednesday, conservative voters across the state would have heard about a federal judge blocking much of Arizona's immigration law....[view article]
Americans Cut Back on Visits to DoctorWall Street Journal - July 29, 2010
Insured Americans are using fewer medical services, raising questions about whether patients are consuming less health care as they pick up a greater share of the costs....[view article]
Parts of controversial Arizona immigration law take effectCNN - July 29, 2010
Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) -- Parts of an Arizona immigration law take effect Thursday after a federal judge blocked several of its most controversial aspects....[view article]
Hearing to address mismanagement at Arlington CemeteryCNN - July 29, 2010
(CNN) -- A senate subcommittee hearing is scheduled Thursday to examine the mismanagement of Arlington Cemetery, one of the nation's most hallowed burial places for its war dead....[view article]
Prerequisites for a two-state solutionJewish World Review - July 29, 2010
Will the world applaud Israel's just-announced decision to restrict its military forces by imposing even more stringent rules to avoid accidental civilian casualties? Don't bet on it. The world remained silent as Israel endured hundreds of Palestinian suicide bombers, stabbings, drive-by shootings, and kidnappings....[view article]
NASA Does Muslim OutreachJewish World Review - July 29, 2010
It's not really surprising that President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden that his highest priority should be "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering." It fits with so much that we already knew about the president....[view article]
Coast Guard may start redeploying cleanup resources once Gulf well is killed permanentlyFox News - July 29, 2010
The government's point man for the Gulf spill plans to meet with coastal parish officials Thursday to talk about what's next now that the oil has stopped flowing....[view article]
Oil from Gulf spill is no longer collecting on the surface, but where is it?Fox News - July 28, 2010
NEW ORLEANS -- In the nearly two weeks since a temporary cap stopped BP's gusher at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, not much oil has been showing up on the surface of the water....[view article]
Coburn Wins GOP Senate Nomination in OklahomaFox News - July 28, 2010
TULSA, Okla. -- Incumbent Republican Tom Coburn has defeated two challengers from his own party in Tuesday's primary election for a U.S. Senate seat in Oklahoma. Coburn defeated perennial candidate Evelyn Rogers of Tulsa and retired teacher Lewis Kelly Spring of Hugo....[view article]
Suspected Somali pirates face second arraignment in Virginia courtroom on piracy chargesFox News - July 28, 2010
NORFOLK, Va. -- Eleven Somali nationals accused in separate attacks on two U.S. Navy ships are due in federal court in Virginia for arraignments on piracy and other charges....[view article]
NATO confirms death of 1 of 2 sailors missing in Afghanistan, relative of Colorado legislatorFox News - July 28, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - One of two U.S. sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week - a 30-year-old father of two - has been confirmed dead and his body recovered, a NATO spokesman said Tuesday....[view article]
Reid: Ford alive because of bailoutsOneNewsNow.com - July 27, 2010
The Ford Motor Company continues to prove that government bailout money is not needed to succeed in these hard economic times. Last week, it reported second-quarter earnings of $2.6 billion dollars -- its fifth straight quarterly profit....[view article]
WikiLeaks' postings a serious issueOneNewsNow.com - July 27, 2010
A senior Army strategist and Pentagon advisor says the recent release of sensitive information on the Afghanistan war by an online "whistleblower" is a very serious matter and could result in serious harm to U.S. troops....[view article]
U.S., S. Korea Drop Anti-Sub Bombs in DrillsFox News - July 27, 2010
ABOARD THE USS CURTIS WILBUR -- U.S. and South Korean naval ships fired artillery and dropped anti-submarine bombs off South Korea's east coast Tuesday, the third day of high-profile military maneuvers intended to warn North Korea against any aggression....[view article]
Pro-Gun Dems May Get a BoostFox News - July 27, 2010
With the mid-terms looming large in a year where incumbents are expected to take a beating at the polls many Democratic candidates are favoring gun rights, aiming to win endorsements or positive ratings from pro-2nd amendment groups....[view article]
BP puts oil spill cost at $32.2bn- 0, 0
The company said the charge gave it a loss of $17bn for the three months between April and June - a UK record....[view article]
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