Another embarrassing revelation from the NYPD police corruption trial taking place in Brooklyn: Narcotics officers gave junkie Melanie Perez crack and made her perform sex acts in return, she testified last week. Perez testified in Brooklyn Supreme Court during the trial of Jason Arbeeny, one of eight undercover officers charged…
Continue reading …Herman Cain has got himself a pretty unconventional presidential campaign—in that it doesn’t appear to exist. Talking Points Memo has noticed a steady stream of reports noting Cain’s astonishingly scant ground presence in all the early voting states. “There is no sense of a tangible organization that you can…
Continue reading …In the three months after he resigned, Anthony Weiner spent $130,000 in campaign funds, FEC data shows—more than what most current US representatives from New York City spent over the same period, the Hill reports. Some $10,000 went to travel, $25,000 to consulting and “policy research,…
Continue reading …In four Ukrainian cities that will host the Euro 2012 soccer championship next summer, more than 9,000 dogs have been put to death in the last year—and animal rights activists, who believe the number is actually much greater, accuse authorities of using illegal, inhuman methods including poison to…
Continue reading …Why must every sports game begin with vocalists wailing their way through the national anthem? It’s a powerful song, but “there’s no reason” it needs to “last five endless minutes and arrive full of insufferable freestyle flourishes,” writes Raymond Cummings at SpliceToday . Trouble is, no one’s going to tell that…
Continue reading …As predicted , an early count of the votes in Tunisia shows that the once-banned Islamist party Ennahda is leading in many areas around the country. Tunisians yesterday voted to elect a new 217-seat constituent assembly that will choose the fledgling democracy’s new government and write its new constitution; the AP…
Continue reading …The Whitey Bulger story begs for the cinematic treatment—and it’s getting just that, courtesy of two guys who know a thing or two about Boston. Ben Affleck will direct Matt Damon as Bulger in the Warner Bros. release, with a script by Sopranos writer/producer Terence Winter. “I don’t think…
Continue reading …The euro crisis is dire indeed—but Paul Krugman can’t help seeing the gallows humor in it. “As one rescue plan after another falls flat, Europe’s Very Serious People just keep looking more and more ridiculous,” he writes in the New York Times . The core of the problem is reminiscent…
Continue reading …When the Joplin tornado hit, social worker Mark Lindquist was working for Community Support Services at a group home where three men with Down syndrome lived. “I loved them almost as much as I love my own kid,” Lindquist recalls. They couldn’t move quickly enough to relocate, and the home…
Continue reading …Dublin city council declares emergency as flooded rivers and canals cut off rail and road routes after incessant rains A young Irish police officer is missing after reports he was swept away in floods in County Wicklow on Monday night. A joint Garda, the Irish police force, and coastguard search has been launched with the police force’s helicopter and several mountain rescue teams involved in the operation. The garda, in his 20s, was off-duty but had gone out to help divert traffic away from a dangerous bridge, which was under water at Ballysmuttan at around 7pm. Dublin city council has declared an emergency in the Republic’s capital with the rivers Liffey, Dodder and Tolka bursting their banks. The Belfast to Dublin rail link had to be shut after flooding in the Clontarf area of north Dublin while all the internal rail services within Greater Dublin were shut down. Dublin Bus reported several buses were affected by floods and got stranded along routes close to the city’s canals. One of Dublin’s major shopping centres at Dundrum had to be evacuated after the first floor of the mall was flooded. Ireland Europe Flooding Natural disasters and extreme weather Dublin Henry McDonald guardian.co.uk
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