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Brazil lawmakers red-faced over mystery underwear
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Mystery underwear found during a parliamentary session earlier this month is causing a lot of red faces in the Brazilian Congress, a report said Thursday. The red and white panties, described by O Globo daily as “rather large” and “not a G-string,” were inadvertently dropped…
Pelosi: Constitutionality of health care reform ‘ironclad’
WASHINGTON — Top congressional Democrat Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she was confident that US President Barack Obama’s health care reform would be upheld by the Supreme Court, saying the law’s constitutionality was “ironclad.” A decision from the high court is due in June, and legal experts have been scrupulously studying…
JPMorgan boss to testify to Congress twice in June
WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase’s embattled chief executive Jamie Dimon will be hauled before US lawmakers twice in June to explain the bank’s recent huge trading losses, congressional officials said Thursday. The US Senate Banking Committee said it postponed an appearance by Dimon from June 7 to June 13 to accommodate…
Congresswoman’s spokesman: Hurl some acid at female Democratic Senators
Democratic candidate Richard Becker on Thursday blasted comments made by Rep. Nan Hayworth’s (R-NY) official campaign spokesman. On a Facebook discussion board maintained by local Democratic activists, Jay Townsend mockingly suggested throwing acid on female Senators who supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act but paid their male staffers more…
Families caught in foreclosure crisis unite in national campaign
A national campaign representing more than 50,000 families caught up in America’s foreclosure crisis has been launched, with the aim of making mortgage relief a key issue in battleground states during the 2012 election. The Home Defenders League, launched on Thursday, plans to be active in 17 states across the…
Public sector cuts dragging down U.S.’s already fragile economic recovery
For the last 24 years James Estep has worked in public education. He has never seen anything like this. The superintendent of Pennsylvania’s Mifflin county school district is wrestling with a multimillion deficit that last year led to him cutting 83 jobs – a fifth of his workforce – and…
Buddy Roemer blasts special interests as he bows out of presidential race
Long-shot Republican presidential candidate Buddy Roemer officially dropped out of the 2012 race on Thursday, blasting the special interests that “own our political system” as he did so. In a statement, Roemer thanked his friends and family who had supported him during the 17 month campaign. The White House hopeful…
Director Charles Ferguson: Politicians are afraid of Wall Street’s power
Director Charles Ferguson told Reuters TV on Thursday that criminal behavior on Wall Street is not prosecuted because politicians are scared of the financial sector’s power. Ferguson is the director of the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, which examines how banking practices, the housing boom, and deregulation led to the…
In offices, men have more cooties than women, study says
A new study shows that men’s offices are more contaminated with oral, nasal, skin and intestinal bacteria than women’s offices. And it’s likely their larger size and unhygienic ways are the reason. Studies… [Work colleagues arguing, via Shutterstock.com.]…
Our galaxy to hit another in four billion years: NASA
WASHINGTON — Our galaxy is on a collision course with its nearest neighbor, Andromeda, and the head-on crash is expected in four billion years, the US space agency NASA said on Thursday. Astronomers have long theorized that a clash of these galaxy titans was on the way, though it was…
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