“Our baby is due in the fall” is how Jackie Hance ends her Ladies’ Home Journal essay. The otherwise unremarkable line is anything but, considering that the Long Island woman is the mother of three young girls killed in a horrific accident on New Jersey’s Taconic Parkway in 2009. Five…
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Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislators struck a deal Thursday to end a budget impasse that led to the longest state government shutdown in recent history. (July 14)
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An Indonesian volcano spit lava and smoke thousands of feet into the air early Friday, sending panicked residents fleeing down its slopes. (July 14)
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LONDON (Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch on Thursday caved in to pressure from Britain’s parliament to answer questions over alleged crimes at one of his newspapers and denied that News Corp was drawing up plans to separate its newspaper holdings. Murdoch said News Corp had handled the crisis engulfing his media empire “extremely well in every way possible” making just “minor mistakes” and called reports he would split off his newspaper assets “pure rubbish.” Speaking to his Wall Street Journal newspaper, Murdoch said his son had acted “as fast as he could, the moment he could” to deal with the scandal. The Australian-born media mogul’s comments came as he faced investigations on both sides of the…
Continue reading …Even with the FBI and British parliament snooping around now, Rupert Murdoch thinks News Corp will come out of this phone hacking mess just fine, thank you very much. In an interview with the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal , he says the damage is “nothing that will not be recovered,” adding…
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Continue reading …Rudy Giuliani says it’s not too late to join the Republican presidential race. The former New York City mayor is predicting that two or three more candidates probably will jump into the race. While he won’t say whether he might be one of them, he expects to decide by the…
Continue reading …SpaceX breaks ground at Vandenberg Air Force Base, continues preparation for 2013 Falcon Heavy launch
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End of the US space shuttle program got you down ? It doesn’t seem to have phased SpaceX, which is still chipper and chugging right along with plans for its bodacious Falcon Heavy . The company recently broke ground at Complex 4 East at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, which Elon Musk’s baby will call home, later next year. With twice the payload-to-orbit capacity of Boeing and Lockheed’s Delta IV Heavy, and at a third of the cost, the firm hopes its latest will usher in a new era of affordable $100 million launches. If all goes according to plan, the 22-story behemoth will have its inaugural launch in 2013, making it — we’re told — the most powerful US rocket since Saturn V hurtled the Apollo spacecraft towards the moon. Budget-friendly, rocket-boostin’ PR awaits you after the break. Continue reading SpaceX breaks ground at Vandenberg Air Force Base, continues preparation for 2013 Falcon Heavy launch SpaceX breaks ground at Vandenberg Air Force Base, continues preparation for 2013 Falcon Heavy launch originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Osama bin Laden wanted to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this year in the best way he knew how: with another assault on US soil. Intelligence gathered from the Navy SEALs raid that killed him showed bin Laden was trying to put together a team to carry…
Continue reading …Count another one for the Google+ camp: Liz Dwyer at Good writes that the new social networking tool “could end up being a serious education game changer.” Google’s format allows teachers to set up specific “circles” just for students or classrooms, eliminating those “weird privacy issues” that limits Facebook’s utility…
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