Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in the country’s second largest city, security officials said Sunday. (Sept. 11)
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie chat with AP’s Natalie Rotman as the couple attends the premiere of Pitt’s film ‘Moneyball in Toronto. (Sept. 11)
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NEW YORK – With simple and solemn ceremony, the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks Sunday with prayer and remembrances at the sites where thousands of Americans died. President Barack Obama was joined by former President George W. Bush at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, a moment of bipartisan unity to honor the dead reminiscent of the way the country came together in the wake of the attacks. Hand in hand with their wives, they walked to the site as the ceremony opened at 8:46 am, the precise moment the first hijacked plane smashed into the first tower. A church bell rang twice. Story: Truck bomb injures scores at U.S. base in…
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(AP/The Huffington Post) South Carolina’s first female governor is being criticized for calling a woman reporter a “little girl” because the governor didn’t like her coverage on taxpayer spending on a European trip. In a radio interview Thursday, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley said “God bless that little girl at the Post and Courier,” referring to a reporter at the Charleston newspaper. Bill Rogers with the South Carolina Press Association said Friday the remark is a sexist, personal attack rather than a response to the story’s facts. Last Sunday’s story described at least $127,000 in expenses that Haley and other state officials spent on a weeklong trip to attract European companies to South Carolina. Here are some of the details relayed by the Post and Courier on the trip: Haley, who captured the governor’s office preaching fiscal restraint, spent the cash so she, her husband and the rest of the state’s contingent could stay in five-star hotels; sip cocktails at the Paris Ritz; dine on what an invitation touted as “delicious French cuisine” at a swanky rooftop restaurant; and rub elbows with the U.S. Ambassador to France at his official residence near the French presidential palace. The State reports that South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian suggested Haley’s remarks reflected “a lack of judgment and maturity.” He said, “It’s a disgrace that she would diminish a woman trying to do her job.” Haley defended the spending in interviews and an article she wrote that the newspaper published Wednesday. The AP reports that on Friday the South Carolina governor said she regrets her choice of words.
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Continue reading …Nearly 80 American soldiers were wounded and two Afghan civilians were killed in a Taliban truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said today, a stark reminder that the war in Afghanistan still rages 10 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The attack was carried out…
Continue reading …The latest stories from the front lines of the labor fight across the country… Public workers, union members and employees of utilitty companies… OUR Wal-mart is fighting for workers rights at the country’s largest employer. Taking a look at the state of today’s unions./a> Labor leaders are calling for Hershey to stop abusing workers. Fox bashes infrastructure spending as bailout for unions , ignoring the importance of infrastructure not only for workers, for the economy as a whole. Conservative media continue to try to smear Jimmy Hoffa for calling on people to vote. Unions are big supporters of the American Jobs Act , even if they don’t think it’s perfect. Hyatt workers in four cities are on strike. The Federal Aviation Administration has been extended for another short period. Workers are growing more unhappy with their health benefits and promotions. The AFL-CIO is calling on the National Labor Relations Board to protect undocumented workers from being cheated out of earned wages. International Longshore and Warehouse Union protests in Washington state are the subject of some controversy. The majority of working poor in the U.S. are now in poverty. Conservatives media are attacking the blocking of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger , suggesting it is anti-jobs, which nearly everyone else says isn’t true.
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Fox News’ Chris Wallace accused NBC’s Brian Williams of having a liberal bias on Friday’s “Fox and Friends.” Williams drew a lot of attention at Wednesday’s GOP debate for asking Texas Gov. Rick Perry if he ever “struggled to sleep at night” wondering if he had ever executed an innocent person in his state. (Perry said he hadn’t, and the audience rewarded him with loud applause.) On the “O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg criticized Williams for the question, saying that an analogous query would never have been made about abortion to a Democrat. On “Fox and Friends,” Wallace said he thought Goldberg was spot on. “I think that Bernie Goldberg was 100% right,” he said. “And it wasn’t only that question. There were a bunch of questions I thought there was a left-wing bias.” Wallace said that the “interesting thing” was that Williams “wouldn’t even understand” that he had asked a biased question, because liberalism was “so built into the drinking water, if you will, in some of these liberal outlets that they don’t even understand it happens. It’s just a different set of questions that they would have asked Democratic candidates…I just think there is a bias against conservatives in the mainstream media.” It should be noted that Wallace spent many years at NBC, including stints as a co-host of the “Today” show and as the moderator of “Meet the Press.” Moreover, he was himself criticized for his questioning of Newt Gingrich during a recent Fox News debate. Watch (via Mediaite):
Continue reading …This time, apparently the Goonies weren’t good enough. Singer Cyndi Lauper flubbed the national anthem at the US Open women’s semifinals, in a ceremony honoring 9/11 victims. After a moment of silence, and as an honor guard marched, Lauper did a mash-up of lines from the anthem, changing “O’er the…
Continue reading …With the economy’s continuing weakness, a 9.1% unemployment rate, and the president’s sagging poll numbers, leading Democrats are voicing louder doubts and concerns about President Obama’s re-election chances, reports the New York Times . Attempts to capture the middle ground have both failed with independents and alienated the president’s more…
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