Justice’s wife launches ‘tea party’ group
The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.
As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.
Toyota was asked in 2007 to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration
The automaker began installing the safety feature, known as brake override, only this January after a widely publicized accident involving a runaway Lexus ES that killed four people near San Diego.
Federal regulators in 2007 asked Toyota Motor Corp. to consider installing software to prevent sudden acceleration in its vehicles after receiving complaints that vehicles could race out of control, company documents show.
New York Stock Exchange bell takes celebrity turn
Corporate meets entertainment at the opening and closing of each trading day. What better place to bring KISS and Dr Pepper together?
KISS guitarist Paul Stanley fluffed his thick, shaggy hair as bassist Gene Simmons fidgeted in the background, their eyes looped in black makeup, faces painted chalky white. As the seconds counted down to 4 p.m., Stanley leaned on the green button in front of him.
Doubts persist as US readies tourism push (AFP via Yahoo! News)
As the United States gears up for a 100-million-dollar effort to boost tourism, doubts remain whether the initiative can live up to its promise and overcome a tarnished US image abroad.
A couple s journey to the United States (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
NEW JERSEY, United States Vicente and Flora Carreon from Guagua, Pampanga were a young couple in their early 30s. He worked as a tennis supervisor at the Manila Polo Club while she was a teacher at the Guadalupe Elementary School in Makati. They were gainfully employed.
Doubts persist as US readies tourism push (The Daily Star Lebanon)
WASHINGTON: As the United States gears up for a $100-million effort to boost tourism, doubts remain whether the initiative can live up to its promise and overcome a tarnished US image abroad. A law signed March 4 by President Barack Obama creates a Corporation for Travel Promotion, modeled after tourism boards in other countries and US states.
Ireland frees American woman in terrorist plot
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Colorado had been arrested in an alleged plot to kill cartoonist Lars Vilks, after following radical Islamists to Ireland. Her parents await word of her and their grandson, 6.
For the parents of Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, the news late Saturday that Irish police had released their daughter from custody did little to alleviate the question of how she may have become involved with suspects in a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist targeted by Islamic radicals.
Obama officials confident health bill will pass House this week
A GOP senator calls the vote ‘a political kamikaze mission’ for Democrats. The White House gets ready for the final push.
Senior White House officials predicted Sunday that President Obama’s healthcare initiative would pass the House this week and warned Republicans that if they made it an issue in November elections, they did so at their own political peril.
Chinese premier slams U.S. ‘protectionism,’ says yuan is not too low
Wen Jiabao criticizes the U.S. at an annual news conference, denies having kept China’s currency artificially low to increase exports. He challenges America to improve relations with China.
In an annual news conference Sunday in which he took direct aim at the United States, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao defended his country’s currency policy and said it was up to Washington to mend Sino-American relations.
Drug Violence In Mexico Kills Two Americans, 1 Mexican With Ties To U.S. Consulate (Free Internet Press)
Three people with ties to the American consulate in a drug-plagued Mexican city were killed in a drive-by shooting, a U.S. official said Sunday. Two American citizens and a spouse of a Mexican employee were killed Saturday afternoon, a U.S. official said.
6 dead, thousands without electricity in Northeast storm
New Jersey, New York and other states mop up after high winds and heavy rain flood roads and uproot trees.
Last month, the Northeast was smothered by blizzards. Now, it’s waterlogged by torrential rains.
2 U.S. citizens, Mexican killed in Juarez (UPI)
EL PASO, Texas, March 14 (UPI) — President Barack Obama expressed “outrage” at the killing of a U.S. couple and a Mexican citizen affiliated with the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Obama losing chance to reshape judiciary
Liberals had hoped he would counter a slew of conservative appointments in federal courts made by his Republican predecessors. But that hasn’t happened.
An early chance for the Obama administration to reshape the nation’s judiciary — and counter gains made in the federal courts by conservatives — appears close to slipping away, due to a combination of White House inattention and Republican opposition.
Miles from the Strip, visions of an upscale village dim
Lake Las Vegas, launched two decades ago, is now more ghost town than oasis. What’s sometimes bemoaned as ‘Lake Lost Vegas’ is a microcosm of the tattered Nevada economy.
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