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FIRST LOOK: Steve Jobs stepping down as Apple chief

August 25, 2011 No Comment

Welcome to First Look, our daily roundup of early-bird news: • The Obama administration is mulling a program to allow millions of homeowners with government-backed mortgages to refinance them at today’s lower interest rates. (The New York Times) • Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO of the company he founded, Apple, amid ongoing health

Weekly jobless claims climb again

August 25, 2011 No Comment

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits went up last week, as the job market shows few signs of picking up. Four-hundred and seventeen thousand Americans put in initial claims, the Labor Department said. That’s up by 5,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 412,000. The four-week moving average, which smooths

An oral history of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

August 25, 2011 No Comment

The military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy officially ends on Sept. 20. In response, GQ’s Chris Heath interviewed dozens of gay servicemen past and present about what it was like to hide their sexual orientation for so many years. One WWII vet described the screening process 70 years ago: “I was called in, and there was

12-year-old boy in Canada delivered his baby brother after their mother went into labor

August 25, 2011 No Comment

Gaelan Edwards, a 12-year-old boy from Campell River, British Columbia, delivered his baby brother on Sunday morning when his mother went into labor and couldn’t make it to the hospital. Gaelan was up late, “watching a movie about showgirls on television at about 2 a.m. on Sunday morning,” Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper reports, when

At funeral, dog mourns the death of Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan

August 25, 2011 No Comment

Jon Tumilson, a Navy SEAL, was one of 30 Americans killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 6 when a rocket-propelled grenade took out a U.S. Chinook helicopter. He was mourned at a service in Rockford, Iowa, attended by 1,500 family members, friends–and Hawkeye, Tumilson’s dog. The Labrador retriever was such an important part of Tumilson’s life

As White House mulls expanding a Georgia jobs program, there are doubts about its national impact

August 25, 2011 No Comment

As part of its package of job creation proposals to be released next month, the Obama administration is said to be looking closely at a Georgia program that trains the unemployed for new jobs with potential employers. But based on Georgia’s experience, the effect the program would have on a national level is very much

East Coast braces for Hurricane Irene

August 25, 2011 No Comment

Note: This post has been updated to reflect ongoing developments. New York City–along with much of the East Coast–is bracing for Hurricane Irene. The city is ready to evacuate low-lying areas and will use police boats to rescue stranded residents if necessary, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday. Neighboring New Jersey has declared a state of

Cash Cab Taxi Hits, Kills Vancouver Pedestrian

July 17, 2011 No Comment

Vancouver Police said a 61-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., died in a hospital shortly after being struck by the mock yellow cab late Friday night in the city’s Downtown Eastside district. Police did not immediately release the victim’s identity.

Senate OKs Panetta as Defense Chief, 100-0

June 21, 2011 No Comment

The Senate today uanimously approved the nomination of Leon Panetta to be the next defense chief, handing him a crowded agenda of overseeing the drawdown of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, tamping down congressional unrest over the Libyan conflict, and cutting the budget. Panetta will replace Defense Secretary Robert…

Bristol’s Homophobic Agenda

June 21, 2011 No Comment

Bristol Palin has shown her true colors, and those are definitely not the colors of the rainbow. The young Palin daughter of the once vice presidential hopeful, has harsh words directed at Cindy McCain in her new book,

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