DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — The focus in Washington is on the debt and the deficit -- but President Barack Obama says it's really all about job creation. Meeting with a group of business leaders in North Carolina, Obama promised to do all he can to help businesses, as his administration tries to breathe life into the faltering economic recovery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the granddaddy of WikiLeaks. Four decades ago, a young defense analyst leaked a top-secret study packed with damaging revelations about America's conduct of the Vietnam War. Today, the Pentagon Papers finally came out in complete form. Most of the 7,000-page study has been out for years. Monday's release draws it together for the first time, and online.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A small group of demonstrators has marched to a federal courthouse in Los Angeles to demand that U.S. prosecutors bring charges against a white former San Francisco Bay area transit officer. He was released from jail overnight after serving half of a two-year sentence for fatally shooting an unarmed black man.
HAMBURG, Iowa (AP) — The National Weather Service says a Missouri River levee has failed near the Iowa-Missouri border, prompting a flash flood warning for the area around Hamburg, Iowa. The weather service says the breach created a 30-foot-wide hole in the levee that had three partial breaches last week. Water flowing through the hole would have to cross several miles of rural land to reach the town of Hamburg.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A divided federal appeals court says two Pennsylvania teens cannot be disciplined at school for MySpace parodies of their principals that they created off school grounds. The judges say the postings are protected under previous Supreme Court case law on student speech.
No comments:
Post a Comment