It’s official: This heat wave is one of the all-time greats. Temperatures soared to a record-high 104 degrees in New York City and to 108 degrees in Newarkâthe hottest day in the city’s history, reports NBC . It’s much the same everywhere from Kansas to Maine, reports AP , with heat…
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How to honor the life’s work of an artist who has been dead for more than a quarter-century? Why, an HTML5 doodle on the Google homepage, of course. The search giant paid homage to Alexander Calder, the celebrated inventor of the mobile sculpture with its first doodle created entirely in HTML5 canvas. Those using a laptop with an accelerometer and an updated browser can move the coded sculpture around with their curser. Ironically, we had some difficulty playing around with the image on our mobile devices. Google celebrates Alexander Calder and spinning things with HTML5 doodle originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The NFL was stuck in a holding pattern Friday as the players studied the owner-approved proposal to end the lockout and tried to determine when and even whether to vote on it. (July 22)
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President Barack Obama says the biggest obstacle to a deficit-cutting deal that would allow an increase in the government’s debt limit is a large bloc of conservative House Republicans. (July 22)
Continue reading …Hundreds of thousands of Syrians defied a violent government crackdown today, insisting they will not be terrified into submission through bullets, mass arrests, and more than four months of attacks by security forces. At least five people were killed, activists said. Today marked a clear attempt by the opposition to…
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Speaker John Boehner broke off talks with President Barack Obama on a deal to cut spending and avert a government default Friday night. He said he would begin talks instead with Senate leaders. (July 22)
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House Speaker John Boehner broke off talks with President Barack Obama Friday night on a deal to make major cuts in federal spending and avert a threatened government default, sending already uncertain compromise efforts into instant crisis. (July 22)
Continue reading …Norway is ramping up security in the wake of the twin terror attacks in and near Oslo. The group Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or Helpers of the Global Jihad, have claimed responsibility, but it remains unclear whether the group was actually behind the strikes, reports the New York Times . In a…
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