A five-alarm fire ripped through a Brooklyn apartment building last night, leaving one resident dead, 100 homeless, and injuring more than 20 firefighters as some 200 of them battled the blaze in high winds, reports the New York Post. The fire broke out just before 7pm, but wasn’t brought under…
Continue reading …Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson think that President Obama’s proposed budget “goes nowhere close” enough in reducing the US deficit, but the deficit-reduction panel’s co-chairs say they “see the cup as half-full.” “[We] think there is the real possibility that a bipartisan deficit reduction plan can make it to the…
Continue reading …Moammar Gadhafi’s forces have opened fire on mourners at the funeral for anti-government protesters in the city of Benghazi, where a doctor says at least 200 people have already been slain in days of demonstrations. A man shot in the leg today said marchers were bearing coffins to a cemetery…
Continue reading …The Amanda Knox movie just got a last-second edit: The scene in which a screaming, half-dressed Meredith Kercher is stabbed to death has been cut from the controversial TV movie, reports the Telegraph . The movie does, however, still feature one of Kercher’s assailants watching the killing. The Lifetime movie Amanda…
Continue reading …Don’t call the Wisconsin public employees greedy—despite generous benefits, they actually earn 4.8% less than comparable private sector workers, reports the Wisconsin State Journal . Public sector workers have higher salaries than average because their jobs require more education than average, too: in fact, a typical Wisconsin public employee…
Continue reading …Celebrated Bears safety Dave Duerson killed himself this week at age 50, and his family is donating his brain to science to see whether his suicide may have been related to concussions and brain injuries received as a player. “He had informed (his family) at some point that he wanted…
Continue reading …Popular unrest roiling the Middle East is is rocking the ultra-rich, ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia, leaving its rulers feeling isolated both from regional allies and the United States alike, reports the New York Times . King Abdullah has called President Obama at least twice to voice his concerns about Egypt,…
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Budget problems are forcing state governors across the US to propose drastic measures to balance the books. In the state of Wisconsin, roughly 100000 people turned up for a fifth straight day of protests. Public sector workers accuse the state’s Republican governor of using the crisis as a reason to attack their union rights. Roger Wilkison reports.
Continue reading …Journalist Kim Barker was covering a jubilant demonstration in Pakistan in 2007, with thousands cheering for the country’s chief justice, when the crowd turned on her, groping her relentlessly. She only escaped because the chief justice saw and let her take shelter in his car. “I knew other female correspondents…
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From Manama’s Pearl Roundabout, Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent for the UK’s Independent newspaper talks to Al Jazeera about the situation in Bahrain and the wider region.
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