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Falling Home Prices Erode Nest Eggs, Local Government Budgets
Startling new reports show the U.S. housing market is taking a turn for the worse, putting added pressure on families saving for retirement and on local governments that rely on property tax revenue to stay afloat. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe [...]
Full StoryHouse Rejects Bill to Raise Debt Limit
House Republicans dealt defeat to their own proposal for a $2.4 trillion increase in the nation’s debt limit Tuesday, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any increase in government borrowing. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it [...]
Full StoryJapanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima ‘suicide corps’
Up a narrow flight of stairs in a modest, non-descript office building, three retirees sit in a cramped room, hunched over their computers and mobile phones. They look like the planning committee for a neighborhood senior breakfast, not the leaders of a 250 member team attempting to diffuse one of the world’s worst nuclear meltdowns [...]
Full StoryStudent survives Tuscaloosa, then Joplin tornado
University of Alabama student Emily Fuller was disappointed that her spring semester had to end early in April after a tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa. It was devastating when she finally made it onto campus from her off-campus house to see people walking around dazed after the twister. Forty-two people lost their lives, including one of [...]
Full StoryExplosions, gunfire erupt in Yemen’s capital city, witnesses say
ses said.Sanaa residents reported hearing heavy explosions and sporadic gunfire for several hours early Tuesday, one day after security forces set fire to tents and tore through demonstrators’ camps in Freedom Square in Taiz with bulldozers, an activist and eyewitnes Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers [...]
Full StoryWarriors who became walking libraries
Roland Marbaugh wrote 509 pages of his tales of war — from the swampy Solomon Islands in World War II to the frozen Chosin Reservoir in Korea. His son typed them all up on an electric typewriter in the 1980s but unpublished, Marbaugh’s stories remained largely in his mind. Until now. Marbaugh’s story will soon [...]
Full StoryFresh strikes in Libya as Zuma says Gadhafi is ready for cease-fire
Fresh explosions rang out early Tuesday near Tripoli, hours after South African President Jacob Zuma held talks with Moammar Gadhafi and signalled he was ready to accept an African Union plan for a cease-fire. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the [...]
Full StoryEgyptian general admits ‘virginity checks’ conducted on protesters
A senior Egyptian general admits that “virginity checks” were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Full StoryVoter Registration Could Be Key for Obama’s 2012 Re-Election Campaign
In 2008, Barack Obama tapped into a record of nearly 15 million voters who cast ballots for the first time, a surge in registration that may be difficult to replicate next year. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on [...]
Full StoryNATO apologizes for Afghan airstrike that it says killed 9 civilians
A coalition commander offered his alliance’s “sincere apologies” Sunday for an airstrike that he said killed nine civilians in southern Afghanistan. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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