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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT): 1. ROMNEY COULD CLINCH GOP NOMINATION Today's Texas primary will likely lift Romney to the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the nomination. He is expected to mark the milestone while campaigning in Colorado and Nevada. 2. U.N. ENVOY MEETS WITH SYRIAN PRESIDENT Kofi Annan is trying to salvage a peace plan he brokered more than a month ago. His meeting today with President Bashar Assad follows a massacre last...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. AS ISAAC NEARS, DARK MEMORIES OF KATRINA Uneasy residents are assured that New Orleans' fortified levees can withstand the anticipated hurricane. 2. A NOT-SO-HEARTY PARTY AS CLOUDS GATHER Politics has become an awkward enterprise at the GOP convention. 3. HOW ANTI-OBAMA FLICK SQUARES WITH THE FACTS "2016: Obama's America" argues — unconvincingly — that Obama was heavily influenced by his father's leftist politics. 4....
LONDON (AP) — People across much of the planet were having problems accessing Twitter on Thursday, a day before the 2012 Olympic Games are expected to cause a spike in use of the micro-blogging site. The San Francisco-based company acknowledged the problem, saying in a statement that its engineers are "currently working to resolve the issue," although it didn't go into any further detail. Visitors to the site were greeted with a half-formed message partially in code saying that "Twitter is currently down." The fields where a...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (all times EDT): 1. SANDUSKY JURORS ASK TO REHEAR TESTIMONY When jurors resume deliberations at 9 a.m., what Mike McQueary and Dr. Jonathan Dranov said on the witness stand will be the focal point in the child molestation case of the former Penn State assistant football coach. 2. MOODY'S LOWERS CREDIT RATINGS ON BIG BANKS The ratings agency is concerned whether Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs and others...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court unanimously threw out fines and sanctions Thursday against broadcasters who violated the Federal Communications Commission policy regulating curse words and nudity on broadcast television. But the justices declined to issue a broad ruling on the constitutionality of the FCC indecency policy. Instead, the court concluded only that broadcasters could not have known in advance that obscenities uttered during awards show programs and a brief display of nudity on an episode of ABC's NYPD Blue c... Full story
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT): 1. G-20 CALLS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOB CREATION KEY Obama joins the table at 11 a.m. as the world's largest economies are expected to call for greater government spending as a good way for financially healthy countries to fight economic trouble. 2. CONSERVATIVE BLOGOSPHERE UP IN ARMS ABOUT DRONES The prospect of thousands of drones patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is spawning anxiety across the pol...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (all times EDT): 1. SUICIDE BLAST KILLS DEFENSE MINISTER DURING MEETING IN DAMASCUS A suicide bomber strikes the National Security building in Syria, killing the defense minister and wounding the interior minister in a brazen attack. 2. WEIGHT LOSS DRUG'S APPROVAL OFFERS NEW HOPE FOR OBESE PATIENTS The innovation of Qsymia lies in targeting more than one of the brain signals that drive people to overeat. 3. HOW OBAMA PLANS...
NEW YORK — Yahoo says it is appointing Ross Levinsohn as interim CEO and Fred Amoroso as chairman of its board, effective immediately. AP Photo/Noah Berger In this Nov. 24, 2010 photo, then PayPal president Scott Thompson, who in January 2012 was named CEO of Yahoo Inc., poses for photos at PayPal's offices in San Jose, Calif. Yahoo says CEO Scott Thompson has left the company. Thompson has been under fire for more than a week over mentions in his resume and company filings of a computer science degree he did not earn. A...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (all times EDT): 1. WHY THE FATE OF THE TAX CUT PLAN SEEMS DUBIOUS Democrats want to push tax cuts through the Senate for companies that hire new workers while Republicans may use procedural blockades to derail the measure. 2. EGYPT'S LEGISLATURE CONVENES DESPITE COURT RULING The Islamist-dominated parliament meets in defiance of a ruling by the country's highest court dissolving the legislature. 3. WHY VETERAN HOUSE DEMOCRA...
More of Rush Limbaugh's advertisers say they are dropping his program after the conservative talk show host's derogatory comments about a Georgetown law student. On Monday, AOL Inc. and Tax Resolution Services Co. were the eighth and ninth companies to say that they will suspend advertising on Limbaugh's program, one of the most popular radio shows in the country. Limbaugh last week called student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and "prostitute" after she testified to congressional Democrats in support of their national health care...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT): 1. MICHELLE OBAMA WOULD LIKE TO RE-INTRODUCE YOU TO HER HUSBAND AP Photo/Jae C. Hong First Lady Michelle Obama hugs actor Kal Penn after filming a campaign video at the Democratic National Convention inside Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday. The first lady addresses the Democratic convention in prime time, aiming to draw a clear contrast between the president and his GOP challenger. 2. TEXAS...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The proposed "fracking" rules also set standards for proper construction of wells and wastewater disposal. AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File Signs opposing the hydraulic fracturing process of drilling for gas, or "fracking" are posted in Evans City, Pa. The Obama administration said Friday it will for t... Full story
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times in EDT): 1. SYRIA CIVIL WAR LOOMS OVER GENERAL ASSEMBLY Over seven days of U.N. speeches, Syria was discussed by countries from Albania to Zambia. 2. WHERE SOCIAL MEDIA IS FUELING VIOLENCE The NYPD is doubling the size of its gang unit to combat teen crime driven by dares and insults traded on Facebook and other online networks. 3. THE THREE-PART PERFORMANCE OF PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AP's Connie Cass explains the...
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT): 1. LIFE RETURNS TO NORMAL IN INDIA Now that power has been restored, work resumes while the government investigates what went wrong. 2. AUTHOR GORE VIDAL DIES AT 86 The playwright, politician and commentator made his living by challenging power. 3 HOW ROMNEY'S OVERSEAS TOUR COMPARES WITH OBAMA'S IN 2008 His recent visit to Britain, Israel and Poland was never envisioned to be as eye-catching but comparisons betw...
HELENA — Doctors and insurance companies say they are still opposed to a workers' compensation reform proposal because it cuts their rates to benefit the business owners and workers who helped craft it. A House committee started looking over the compromise crafted first by a panel appointed by the governor, and then an interim legislative committee. All sides agree workers' compensation premiums are too high in Montana and that something needs to be done about it. But doctors and insurance companies are turning to R...
BUTTE — The U.S. Forest Service is investigating the filming of a reality television series featuring Montana game wardens because it appears at least one segment was filmed in the Bitterroot National Forest without a permit, Northern Region spokesman Brandan Schulze said. The issue was raised after a Whitehall man who had been acquitted of state charges, including outfitting without a license, was charged last month with two federal counts of filming bighorn sheep hunts on public lands in 2008 without a permit. The state c...
HELENA — The state Senate decided more work is needed on one piece of proposed DUI reform after some lawmakers argued it went too far in punishing minors issued tickets for possession of alcohol. A measure to ban those under 18 from holding a driver's license if they are caught with alcohol quickly ran into trouble Friday as sponsors sought approval from the full Senate. Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy says the punishment is far too severe and argued the package of proposed DUI reform puts the Legislature on "the path of c...
HELENA — Montana Republicans focused on undermining the federal health care law advanced a bill that orders the attorney general to join other states in suing the federal government. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-5 on Friday to send the proposal to the full Senate. But Republicans who are arguing the federal health care reform law is unconstitutional may be running up against the state Constitution by trying to give an order to the attorney general. A staff attorney says the move could "pose a significant risk" of v... Full story
HELENA — The state House overwhelmingly approved a bill making it illegal to kill an unborn child except in cases of medical procedures. Supporters say there are enough safeguards in the bill to protect a woman from being charged in some way for the death of her own unborn child. They say the bill has nothing to do with abortion and opponents failed in an attempt to have the bill specifically exempt abortion by name. Opponents argued it could be used in unforeseen ways as a backdoor attack on the legal procedure. The House g...
HELENA — Republicans running the Legislature made it clear that their opposition to abortion won't get lost amid the push on leading platform issues. About two dozen Republicans appeared at an anti-abortion rally at the state Capitol on Monday. They touted several pieces of GOP-backed legislation that are likely to get support from most of the caucus. GOP leadership has put its focus on such issues as making it easier for natural resource industries to do business in the state and cutting the state budget. But Republicans who... Full story
HELENA — The Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks in the last six years has acquired 232,000 acres for state parks, wildlife management areas and fishing access sites. But Parks Division administrator Chas Van Genderen said his division is in a "terrible fiscal situation" trying to pay for maintaining new land and other properties the state already owned. The Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission last month refused Van Genderen's request to raise fees at some state parks, citing the economic downturn. Gov. Brian Schweitzer s...
HELENA — Dozens of residents in Helena were awakened by an earthquake overnight. The National Earthquake Information Center says on its website that a magnitude 3.8 earthquake happened around 12:52 a.m. Sunday. The epicenter was about 20 miles northwest of Helena. Thirty-five-year-old Jen Tomaskie was at the home of a woman in her care in Helena and felt the quake. She says the whole house rattled, and she and the woman both woke up. Tomaskie says, "It really felt like someone drove into the garage and it shook the house." H... Full story
The Associated Press HELENA, — A Montana Department of Transportation public safety video that features a horse picking up a rider at a bar and intended as a metaphor to encourage drinkers to get a ride home is being taken literally in a state well known for its horse culture. Helena Police Chief Troy McGee says he's received many calls from residents wanting to know if riding a horse while under the influence is legal. McGee tells the Independent Record it is. Montana law carefully defines a vehicle, and excludes those r...
HELENA — The Montana Board of Medical Examiners says a bill intended to restrict who can get medical marijuana contains wording that will end up having the opposite result and increase eligibility. Board members tell the Independent Record that House Bill 68 as written creates a "laundry list" of qualifying medical conditions that would increase medical marijuana use. Dr. Kristin Spanjian of Billings says the bill lists "inflammatory or degenerative arthritis" as a problem that qualifies. Spanjian said Friday that probably 4... Full story
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says "some" have died in the shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz., where Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was "gravely wounded." U.S. Capitol Police say a shooter is in custody. Obama calls the shooting "an unspeakable tragedy" and that such "a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society." The attack took place in an area where the lawmaker was meeting with constituents. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says "some" have died in the shooting spree in Tucson, Ari...
