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GOP raids Dems' donor list, and it pays off for Cornyn - Houston Chronicle
September 6, 2010 New York Times | GOP raids Dems' donor list, and it pays off for Cornyn Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — Tony Podesta is one of the best-connected rainmakers in the nation's capital, with a web of personal contacts stretching back 42 years and six Democratic presidential candidates. His brother John was Bill ... Tea party or establishment, GOP looks for gains GOP fears echoes of Alaska in Delaware primary For GOP, tea party believers wield a double-edged sword |
Reports: Darrelle Revis, Jets Agree on New Deal - FanHouse
September 6, 2010 Globe and Mail | Reports: Darrelle Revis, Jets Agree on New Deal FanHouse Darrelle Revis has finally received the new contract he was seeking from the Jets, according to multiple reports, and is expected to suit up in Week 1 when New York hosts Baltimore on Monday night. FanHouse's Dan Graziano reported, citing a source ... What Darrelle Revis' return means for the Jets He's back! Revis and Jets agree to new contract Revis re-ups with Jets, ends holdout |
100000 homes could be damaged - PM - Stuff.co.nz
September 6, 2010 Globe and Mail | 100000 homes could be damaged - PM Stuff.co.nz Prime Minister John Key has announced a $5m donation to the mayoral fund set up to rebuild earthquake ravaged canterbury. There have been donations of $6m to the fund, set up by Mayor Bob Parker on Saturday, from the private sector. ... Key: 100000 homes damaged in quake New Zealand Building Shares Rally After Quake New Zealand Faces $1.4 Billion Bill After Earthquake |
Greenpeace activists given suspended jail term - AFP
September 6, 2010 ABC Online | Greenpeace activists given suspended jail term AFP TOKYO — A Japanese court Monday sentenced two Greenpeace activists to one-year jail terms, suspended for three years, for stealing a box of whale meat during an investigation, the environmental group said. Junichi Sato, 33, and Toru Suzuki, 43, ... Whale Meat Served for School Lunch in Japan Judgment draws near in whale-meat trial Suspended jail for Greenpeace activists |
Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all.
9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site — which is also what it is.
Congo: 70 dead, 200 missing in 2 boat capsizes (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Two boats capsized over the weekend in separate incidents on Congo's vast rivers, leaving 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead, and both vessels were heavily loaded and operating with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.
Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.
Despite formal combat end, US joins Baghdad battle (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.
1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution (AP)
September 6, 2010
AP - Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well — even, quite possibly, on Craigslist.
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