World News Break

Great Successor’ takes power in N Korea

2014-08-26T16:12:00.000-04:00

The death of Kim Jong-il threw the Korean peninsula into fresh uncertainty on Monday as the North Korean regime..

Petraeus scandal: The rise and fall of an American hero

2014-08-12T16:11:00.000-04:00

Gen. David Howell Petraeus has been discredited by the news that he had an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, a married woman with two young children. Thirty-eight years of public service have been smeared with the news and have questioned the integrity of the "American Caesar" of our time. FULL STORY

Students safe after armed man reported at Colo. school

2014-08-05T16:10:00.000-04:00

All students at a Denver-area high school are safe after a report that a man with a rifle was seen near campus.. FULL STORY

North Korea Presses South to Implement Economic Pact

2014-07-29T16:09:00.000-04:00

In its first interaction with visitors from South Korea since the death of its leader, Kim Jong-il..

Source: www.nytimes.com

Egypt’s Forces Raid Offices of Nonprofits

2014-07-25T20:33:00.000-04:00

Security forces stormed 17 offices of nonprofit groups as part of an investigation that Egypt’s military..

Source: www.nytimes.com

Debate Persists on Deadly Flu Made Airborne

2014-07-23T00:20:00.000-04:00

“You are not going to believe this one,” he told Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. “I think we have an airborne H5N1 virus.”..

Source: www.nytimes.com

'The Hunger Games' Catch Fire

2013-11-23T02:03:00.000-05:00

From Deadline Hollywood...

Lionsgate just revised upwards its worldwide total to a massive $214.25 million for The Hunger Games which was projected to be the No. 1 title in virtually every single market globally...

Source: www.deadline.com
Nikki Finke

A decade of slow growth?

2013-02-01T20:21:00.002-05:00

By Fareed Zakaria From: Cnn.com: Every year at Davos, people like me try to get a sense of the mood of the place, take the temperature of people in this frosty mountain resort.

Obviously, I will give you a highly impressionistic and personal picture, but it’s one I find useful since Davos does bring together leaders in government, business, media – even the NGO community – from all corners of the world. It is genuinely global in a way that few conferences are... FULL STORY

The FACTS: End of the World 2012 phenomenon

2012-12-20T19:57:00.002-05:00

Guatemalan Maya natives kneel in front of a temple at the Tikal archaeological site on December 20, 2012. The exquisite site of Mayan ruins began hosting winter solstice ceremonies on Thursday as the region's indigenous people marked the end of an era.

The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on 21 December 2012 . This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.

Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae have been proposed as pertaining to this date, though none has been accepted by mainstream scholarship. A New Age interpretation of this transition is that the date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 21 December 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era.

Others suggest that the date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of the next solar maximum, an interaction between Earth and the black hole at the center of the galaxy, or Earth's collision with a planet called Nibiru. Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012.

Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar ends in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture,

While astronomers have rejected the various proposed doomsday scenarios as pseudoscience,stating that they conflict with simple astronomical observations. FULL STORY Source: wikipedia

Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges

2012-12-13T21:00:00.004-05:00

Only 15 states have told the federal government they plan to operate health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama's reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting task of creating online marketplaces for two-thirds of the country. FULL STORY

Bloomberg: The Fiscal Cliff Will Drive the U.S. Into Recession

2012-12-03T23:18:00.000-05:00

House Speaker John Boehner says he was "flabbergasted" when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner pitched the White House plan to save the nation from the "fiscal cliff." FULL STORY

6 Ways The Fiscal Cliff Could Affect You

2012-11-26T22:04:00.000-05:00

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke used the term "fiscal cliff," it quickly became the newest Washington buzzphrase. As the deadline to avert the cliff nears, it has overtaken the European debt crisis as the most talked-about story in the financial media. The fiscal cliff refers to the enactment of a number of laws that would, if not changed before Jan. 1, 2013, FULL STORY

The U.S. Recovery Has Been Spectacular*

2012-11-19T04:54:00.000-05:00

We need a real recovery. That's what Mitt Romney said during the campaign, and he was right. Five years since the start of the Great Recession, unemployment is still far too high. It's not for a lack of optimism among policymakers. As Evan Soltas pointed out, the Federal Reserve keeps predicting that prosperity is just around the corner, only to find it's not. Catchup growth is the new Godot. FULL STORY *Compared to almost every other rich country and almost every other financial crisis.

Fiscal cliff would drive the U.S. economy back into recession.

2012-11-17T16:15:00.003-05:00

Fiscal cliff would drive the U.S. economy back into recession before end of 2013, a new report from the Congressional Budget Office said. Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that the most harmful consequences of the fiscal cliff, a fully armed and operational fiscal cliff would cost us 3.4 million jobs. Obama Fiscal Cliff Deal Risks Brush With Recession

Barack Obama wins election for second term as president

2012-11-08T00:50:00.001-05:00

President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio. FULL STORY

Do companies get a tax break for shipping U.S. jobs overseas?

2012-11-05T13:20:00.001-05:00

A: Not specifically for that reason. But companies can deduct business expenses, including the cost of moving a job to another state or even out of the country. FULL STORY

Has President Obama kept his campaign promises?

2012-11-05T12:54:00.002-05:00

On our Obameter, we've rated 38 percent as Kept, 16 percent Compromise and 17 percent Broken. Four years ago, Barack Obama made an extraordinary number of campaign promises -- 508 -- on everything from taxes to whaling. We've been tracking each one and have rated them on our Obameter, a five-level scale from Stalled to Promise Kept. FULL STORY

Dow Chemical cuts 2,400 jobs

2012-10-23T23:59:00.001-04:00

Dow Chemical announced Tuesday that it is cutting 2,400 jobs, citing slow economic growth in Europe and elsewhere. FULL STORY

VP candidates lay groundwork for top of ticket on Tuesday

2012-10-18T02:45:00.000-04:00

Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan plowed fertile ground in terms of policy and politics during their debate. FULL STORY

Publisher and Author Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

2012-03-01T16:59:00.000-05:00

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Internet publisher and blogger, died early this morning at age 43. A statement posted on his website said that Breitbart died "unexpectedly from natural causes" this morning...

Source: http://abcnews.go.com

Google Exec Unloading Over A Billion In Shares

2012-02-19T02:54:00.001-05:00

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to sell up to 2.4 million shares of stock currently worth nearly $1.5 billion...

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com

San Francisco 49ers vs. New York Giants

2012-01-23T00:53:00.002-05:00

The San Francisco 49ers play the New York Giants in a championship game in San Francisco...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Militants in Nigeria bomb Catholic churches

2011-12-25T21:31:00.002-05:00

Islamist militants set off bombs across Nigeria on Christmas Day - three targeting churches including one that killed at least 27 people..

Source: www.reuters.com

Congress To Fund Massive Expansion Of TSA Checkpoints

2011-12-23T23:43:00.001-05:00

Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over..

Source: www.infowars.com

Slumping Gingrich promises sharper counter-punch

2011-12-21T17:16:00.002-05:00

Slipping in polls under an onslaught of attacks, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich promises to wage a sharper..

Source: www.reuters.com