T O D A Y ' S H E A D L I N E S
Visible light pulses
knock out viruses in blood
Scientists in the US say the technique seems to have significant advantages over alternative methods, including use of UV irradiation or microwaves, as it kills viruses more effectively and safely.
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Gangs spreading
in the military
On July 3, 2005, Sgt. Johnson went to a park not far from his base in Germany to be initiated into the 'Gangster Disciples,' a notorious Chicago-based street gang. He was beaten by eight other soldiers in a "jump-in" - an initiation rite common to many gangs.
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Iraqi authorities impose
vehicle bans
 Iraqi authorities announced a ban on vehicles and celebratory gunfire around Baghdad in an effort to prevent a repeat of violence that killed dozens celebrating Iraq's progress to Sunday's finals of Asia's top soccer tournament.
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Bush calls for
easier wiretap rules
Bush on Saturday called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government's secret communications surveillance of terror suspects.
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Washington split
over Clinton's cleavage
 In Washington, where professional women's style statements are pointedly conservative, Hillary Clinton's cleavage has suddenly burst into one of the hottest topics of the presidential race.
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CNN postpones
GOP debate
Just three Republican presidential candidates -- Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and as of yesterday, Tommy Thompson -- confirmed that they will participate in the Sept. 17 debate. But the debate has now been postponed.
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CNN: Dog fighting worse
than raping a woman
On Thursday, CNN sports anchor Larry Smith commented on Atlanta Falcons’ quarterback Michael Vick’s recent arrest for running a dogfighting ring.
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Lowe’s drops
advertising on O’Reilly
Earlier this month, Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films released “Fox Attacks: The Environment.” The short film documented Fox News’ assault on global warming science and called for one of Fox’s major advertisers, Home Depot, to stop supporting the network’s lies. Home Depot claims to support eco-friendly policies but still gives advertising dollars to Fox
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Anti-war protest focuses
on dollars over deaths
First they tried lines of empty boots, then ribbons bearing the names of the more than 3,000 dead U.S. soldiers. Now anti-war protesters are trying a fresh tactic: appealing to American worries about their wallets.
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Richardson promises
Cabinet preview
Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson told union members on Saturday he would give voters a preview of his Cabinet before voters pick the next president.
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Clinton: Create public
service academy
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.
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Fewer see balance
in High Court decisions
About half of the public thinks the Supreme Court is generally balanced in its decisions, but a growing number of Americans say the court has become "too conservative" in the two years since President Bush began nominating justices, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Democrat charges Alito,
Roberts 'duped' Senate
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito "duped" the U.S. Senate into confirming them, Sen. Schumer charged, days after a key Republican questioned if they had lived up to their promises.
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Emails detail GOP voter
suppression in five states
Previously undisclosed documents detail how Republican operatives, with the knowledge of several White House officials, engaged in an illegal, racially-motivated effort to suppress tens of thousands of votes during the 2004 presidential campaign
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Thompson's infamous laziness shows with inept non-campaign
img src="http://www.usnation.com/election.gif" align=left>Former Senator Fred D. Thompson has yet to make a formal declaration that he is running for president, but already his noncampaign campaign has gone through its first shake-up.
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It's time to impeach Bush,
Cheney and the public knows it
Recently the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS devoted a full hour to the subject of impeaching George W. Bush and Dick Cheney -- the first such attention by a national network.
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Cheney gets new
battery for heart device
Vice Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday had minor surgery to receive a new battery for an implanted device that monitors his heart rhythms, his spokeswoman said.
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Aide: Iraq PM relations
with Petraeus poor
A key aide says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s relations with U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus are so poor the Iraqi leader may ask Washington the withdraw the well-regarded U.S. military leader from duty here.
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Strife and ice, staples
of life, overlap in Iraq
With electricity reaching most homes for just a couple of hours each day, the poor hand over soiled brown dinars for what has become a symbol of Iraq’s steady descent into a more primitive era and its broken covenant with leaders, domestic and foreign.
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E A R L I E R H E A D L I N E S
Conyers seeks copies
of Mueller’s notes
During the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing with FBI Director Robert Mueller, Rep. Arthur Davis (D-AL) asked Mueller whether he retained notes of his March 2004 conversation with Ashcroft in the hospital. Mueller said he did take notes because the events were so “out of the ordinary.”
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More dishonor and distrust of the Attorney General's office
It's way past bedtime for Gonzo. At this point, every day Alberto Gonzales continues as attorney general means more dishonor for the office and the nation -- and higher blood pressure for Senate Judiciary Committee members trying desperately to get a straight answer out of the man.
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Army doctors thought
Tillman was murdered
Army attorneys sent each other congratulatory e-mails for keeping criminal investigators at bay as the Army conducted an internal friendly-fire investigation that resulted in administrative, or non-criminal, punishments.
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Slave labor building
US Embassy in Iraq
Two former employees of First Kuwaiti Trading and Contracting, the company that's building the new $592 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, testified to a House of Representatives panel Thursday that they'd observed abuses of construction workers.
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Cable news is covering
less and less news
There's less and less news on the three cable news channels - CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC - and that's especially true in the evening, when people might actually be watching.
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When you get the chance, check
in with 'The Young Turks'
The Young Turks, the first nationwide liberal talk show and first live, daily internet TV show, is a funny, smart, irreverent and entertaining look at politics, sex, news, pop culture, current affairs and personal stories. The Young Turks airs live M-F from 6 - 9 am ET on Air America Radio and via webcast.
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Clinton chides Obama
in 'silly' despot row
Democratic White House front-runner Hillary Clinton took a new swipe at her top challenger Barack Obama Thursday, accusing him of ditching "hope" for political smears as the 2008 race heats up.
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Cathode ray television
cut-off nearing
Some lawmakers are worried that too few Americans know that the analog TVs they have been using for years could become big cathode-ray paperweights after February 18, 2009, when broadcasters shut off their analog signals.
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Wasting time at work?
You're not alone: survey
 Americans who feel bored and underpaid do work hard -- at surfing the Internet and catching up on gossip, according to a survey that found U.S. workers waste about 20 percent of their working day.
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Terror dry run follies: It
was a senior citizen
An unsuspecting senior citizen from Long Island, N.Y. is behind one of the incidents that prompted the TSA to issue a bulletin last week.
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Terror follies: NBC News needs to apologize for false cheese report
NBC News reported wires and an electrical switch were embedded in blocks of processed cheese.
In another situation a cell phone charger was found. It wasn't true.
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Terror follies at airport: It was
just an electronic game
A suspicious item in checked luggage that prompted the evacuation of a terminal at Long Beach Airport on Thursday turned out to be an electronic game, authorities said.
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Terror follies at ABC News:
It was an aspirin
A building housing the Washington bureau of ABC News was temporarily evacuated Thursday because of a suspicious envelope containing a white powdery substance that turned out to be aspirin, District of Columbia authorities said.
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NASA shaken by
sabotage, drinking
America's space agency was shaken Thursday by two startling and unrelated reports: One involved claims that astronauts were drunk before flying. The other was news from NASA itself that a worker had sabotaged a computer set for delivery to the international space station.
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McDonald's sued in China
for not using Chinese
A Chinese lawyer has sued McDonald's in China for using mostly English, not Chinese, on its receipts, violating his right to information, media reported on Friday.
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Aquafina labels to spell
out source - tap water
PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.
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Things go from bad to
worse for U.S. home builders
The slaughterhouse that has been the U.S. housing market for the past few months got bloodier on Thursday as several industry leaders reported worse results, June home sales fell more than expected and stocks throughout the sector hit multiyear lows.
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Court throws out city's
illegal immigration law
A U.S. judge on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional a local law designed to crack down on illegal immigration, dealing a blow to similar laws passed by dozens of towns and cities across the country.
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Congressman denied access to
post-attack continuity plans
As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom'' in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED.
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Gates seeks to calm
feud with Clinton
Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that a top Pentagon official did not intend to impugn her patriotism by suggesting that her questions about U.S. planning in Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.
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Bush also wants
Congress to stay in session
President Bush said Thursday the Democratic-run Congress shouldn't leave Washington for its August recess without at least finishing a spending bill covering the Defense Department.
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BBC: Bush's grandfather was planning coup against Roosevelt
A BBC report uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen , including Prescott Bush who was the current president's grandfather.
More on this at Cannonfire blog >>
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Bush’s torture ban is full of loopholes
Once upon a time, a U.S. official’s condemnation of torture was a statement of moral principle. Today, it is an opportunity for obfuscation.
Mount Everest highway
plans on hold
Environmental experts must conduct a study and give their approval before workers can build a planned paved road up to the Mount Everest base camp, a Tibet government official said Saturday.
Check, please! What
diners really want
Restaurant-goers are a picky crowd, requiring more than just tasty fare to satisfy them. A new study finds that dirty menus and waiting for the check could be just as critical to a diner's overall experience.
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