Alberto Contador is expected to lose his title as the winner of the 2010 Tour de France and be banned from cycling for a full year, the Telegraph reports. The decision is not yet official, but the Spanish Cycling Federation has recommended the punishment, meaning that Contador has 10 days…
Continue reading …Scratch one off the list: Mike Pence says he won’t run for president in 2012. The conservative congressman from Indiana told supporters of his decision in a letter, reports the Indianapolis Star . “In the choice between seeking national office and serving Indiana in some capacity, we choose Indiana,” wrote Pence…
Continue reading …The Illinois Supreme Court put Rahm Emanuel back on the ballot for Chicago mayor today, reviving his campaign to lead the country’s third-largest city. In the unanimous ruling, the justices called the appeals court’s basis for deciding that Emanuel could not be on the ballot “without any foundation in Illinois…
Continue reading …Protests continued throughout Egypt today, but demonstrators say tomorrow could be the biggest day yet. Millions gather at mosques for Friday prayers, providing organizers with a huge number of people already on the streets to tap into. Meanwhile, Egypt’s top democracy advocate—Mohamed ElBaradei—returned to the country today and…
Continue reading …Breast implants have been linked to an extremely rare but treatable cancer, the New York Times reports. It’s called anaplastic large-cell lymphoma, and in these cases, it usually forms in the scar tissue around the implant. The link was seen in saline and silicone implants, and in both reconstructive implants…
Continue reading …France’s state railway company has apologized for its role in deporting Jews to be slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II—but the move seems only to have caused more outrage. “In the name of the SNCF, I bow down before the victims, the survivors, the children of those…
Continue reading …Newly unveiled correspondence has revealed another side to late author JD Salinger, the Guardian reports. Salinger, widely considered a prickly recluse, is revealed over 50 letters to be surprisingly ordinary—the Catcher in the Rye scribe expresses his appreciation for tennis star Tim Henman and writes that he prefers Burger…
Continue reading …It looks like the new White House press secretary will be Jay Carney, reports CNN . (The news first came via a tweet from the network’s Ed Henry, and an AP source agrees.) Carney, 45, currently serves as Joe Biden’s communications director and previously worked for years as a journalist…
Continue reading …The new White House press secretary will be Jay Carney, reports Politico . Carney, 45, currently serves as Joe Biden’s communications director and previously worked for years as a journalist for Time magazine, including a stint as Washington bureau chief. Carney, who is married to ABC correspondent Claire Shipman , had apparently…
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