From The Wire
Lawmaker: Ron Paul Snubbed By Media
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) — Media arrogance is responsible for the relatively sparse news coverage of Rep. Ron Paul’s second-place finish in the Iowa Straw Poll, a Paul colleague said. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., who has endorsed Paul, R-Texas, in his bid to win the Republican nomination to seek the presidency of the United States, […]
Gulf Drilling Leases Go On Sale In Dec.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Interior says it is more than doubling the minimum bid for the right to drill oil wells in deep water in the Gulf of Mexico. Announcing the first sale of oil drilling rights since the BP disaster in April 2010 that killed 11 people and dumped […]
Shelling Frosts Egypt-Israel Relations
CAIRO, Aug. 20 (UPI) — Israeli officials made conciliatory gestures to Egypt Saturday after Cairo withdrew its ambassador over a border shelling that killed three Egyptians. Egypt’s interim ruling military council that took over power after President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster earlier this year issued a harsh rebuke to Israel over the incident in which an […]
Hackers Go After Military Computers
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (UPI) — South Korean military officials say hackers have attacked their computer systems 37 times since May, and six times so far this month. The military warned all staff to refrain from opening e-mails from “navyojo@hanmail.net,” which contains an attachment, that if opened could infect the user’s computer with a code that […]
Speeding Afghan Bus Crashes, 35 Killed
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Aug. 20 (UPI) — A speeding bus overturned between the southern Afghan cities of Kandahar and Kabul Saturday, killing 35 people and injuring 24 others, emergency officials said. Public health official Abdul Qayoom Pokhla said initial findings showed the bus driver was speeding and lost control of the vehicle early Saturday, the BBC […]
GOP: Clinton Compromised, Obama Can Too
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 (UPI) — A former senior Republican congressman now governor of Ohio, John Kasich, said President Obama could take a lesson from former President Bill Clinton. In the party’s weekly media address, the former chairman of the House Budget Committee who took office as governor in January decried the partisan divisiveness in Washington […]
Obama: Politics Holding U.S. Back
ALPHA, Ill., Aug. 20 (UPI) — U.S. President Barack Obama said Saturday politics is “what’s holding this country back” and he called on members of Congress to “put country before party.” In his weekly radio and Internet address — recorded during his visit this week to Alpha, Ill. — the president said Washington “can learn […]
$320K Ransom In No. Ireland Kidnapping
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Aug. 20 (UPI) — A mother and son kidnapped in Northern Ireland were found 24 hours later south of the border after her partner paid a large ransom, police said. Investigators said the crime may have been the work of a dissident Republican group trying to raise money, the Belfast Telegraph reported. […]
Ocean City, N.J., To Vote On BYOB
OCEAN CITY, N.J., Aug. 20 (UPI) — Voters in Ocean City, a Jersey Shore resort founded by four Methodist ministers, will decide in November if patrons can bring beer and wine to restaurants. City Clerk Linda MacIntyre said Thursday supporters of the BYOB policy have gathered enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot, […]
Conditions Deteriorating In Tripoli
TRIBPOLI, Libya, Aug. 20 (UPI) — Residents of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, described a city under siege Friday as rebels captured Zawiyah, 30 miles away. The New York Times reported that Tripoli residents in telephone interviews said trash is not being collected and crime is commonplace. Many people are trying to get out, they said. […]
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