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Union-busting bill set to pass Wisconsin Assembly
CHICAGO — A bill to bust Wisconsin’s public workers unions that sparked mass protests and led Democratic lawmakers to flee the US state was set for approval on Thursday after a Republican legislative maneuver. Republican state senators appeared to end the weeks-long standoff by stripping all references to the budget…
US film on Gulf oil spill in pipeline
LOS ANGELES — A US film company is to make a movie about last year’s oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, based on a New York Times article about events leading up to the explosion. Summit Entertainment and Participant Media, along with Imagenation Abu Dhabi, have bought the…
Wisconsin Legislature strips state workers of bargaining rights
The Republican-led Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill to bust public workers unions Thursday afternoon, after Republican state senators managed to bypass Senate Democrats who fled the state and pass the legislation Wednesday night. The bill to strip public employee unions of collective bargaining rights was passed by a 53 to…
House votes to provide legal defense of DOMA
In a 3-2 vote, the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) voted Wednesday to direct the House General Counsel to defend the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. BLAG is a five member panel consisting of House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), House…
Wisc. Gov. Scott Walker ‘selectively leaking emails’
Union leaders have accused Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker of selectively releasing emails to make him seem more willing to negotiate with his opponents. The governor released emails between his staff and Democratic state Senators to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other news outlets on Tuesday. The emails appeared to show…
Pentagon accounting problems ‘serious’: Treasury
WASHINGTON — The US administration is taking a hard look at problems in the Defense Department’s accounting, after a report called its books unauditable, the Treasury said Wednesday. Treasury assistant secretary Richard Gregg told a Congressional panel there were “serious financial reporting issues” at the Pentagon, which in the current…
Tucson gunman pleads not guilty on all charges
TUCSON, Arizona — Jared Loughner, the gunman accused of trying to assassinate a US congresswoman and killing six people in Tucson, pleaded not guilty to all 49 new charges against him Wednesday. He entered the pleas in his first court appearance in Tucson itself, after prosecutors announced new indictments against…
Education Secretary: 82% of US public schools may ‘fail’ this year
In testimony to Congress Wednesday, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan made a startling claim: This year, up to 82 percent of public schools could “fail” the government’s “No Child Left Behind” standards. “No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now,” he said, according to a…
White House says NPR funding ‘a worthwhile and important priority’
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that the Obama administration continued to believe that funding National Public Radio was important. NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday in the wake of a video sting by a conservative group which led to renewed calls to de-fund the media…
Congressman Louie Gohmert revives ‘terror babies’ meme
The Texas congressman who warned the nation about the danger of “terror babies” hasn’t given up on his theory. Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert was widely mocked in August, when he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that terrorists would use the 14th Amendment to attack the country from within. According to his…
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