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Most popular news on 13 June 2009 |
Amid protest, LA voters take part in Iran election - Los Angeles Times
By Ann M. Simmons As scores of expatriates showed up at a designated West Los Angeles polling station Friday to cast ballots in Iran's presidential election, a small group of demonstrators protested outside and denounced them for helping to legitimize ...
Mad Max's 2 goals give Pens improbable Game 7 win - USA Today
By Alan Robinson, AP Sports Writer DETROIT - Max Talbot is the jokester in the Pittsburgh Penguins' dressing room, a low-round draft pick on a team filled with first-round big names who doesn't complain when he's shifted to the fourth line or asked to ...
At Paris Air Show, Little Flash and Lots of Introspection - New York Times
Workers move an Agusta A-119 Koala helicopter into a display ahead of the opening on Monday of the 48th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget airport near Paris.
Remembering Tiananmen - New York Times
Twenty years after the massacre of pro-democracy activists, Chinese authorities flooded Tiananmen Square with security forces this week to ensure that there were no protests and no commemorations.
North Korea silent about US journalists' trial - The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea announced that two US journalists were about to go on trial - then came the mysterious silence.
House approves new powers to regulate tobacco - Los Angeles Times
Obama says he will sign the bill giving the FDA the power to regulate the advertising, marketing and manufacturing of tobacco products.
Stepping Up to Defy Intolerance - Washington Post
By Christian Davenport They came by the hundreds, from Florida and Ohio, New York and Texas, passing through the same entrance at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum where two days earlier security officers shot a man who had gunned down one of their own.
Three Pillars For Health Care - West Virginia MetroNews
The executive director of the West Virginia Medical Association says he's "cautiously optimistic" efforts underway in Washington will yield an improved health care system.
Dow turns positive for '09 - CNNMoney.com
Wall Street ends a mixed week little changed, but investors manage to push the blue-chip average into the plus column for the year.
NYMEX-Crude ends lower on dollar, profit-taking - Reuters
* Dollar rebounds broadly, euro lower on weak data * OPEC cuts 2009 demand forecast slightly NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - US crude oil futures ended lower on Friday as the dollar's rebound directed investment flow away from commodities, ...
ETFs Hold Key to BlackRock's Success - Wall Street Journal
By SHEFALI ANAND For once, a financial-services deal without the distress. Yes, Barclays is selling its asset-management business to bolster capital.
Microsoft Browser Offer Fails to Impress Europe - New York Times
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN BERLIN - European regulators, wary of repeating an earlier mistake, signaled this week that Microsoft's offer to sell a browserless Windows system on the Continent did not go far enough.
NASA fuels space shuttle Endeavour for launch - Reuters
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA filled space shuttle Endeavour's fuel tank on Friday for an early-morning liftoff on a mission to deliver the last part of Japan's laboratory to the International Space Station.
Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable - New York Times
By ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING - Filtering software that the government has mandated for all new computers in China is so technically flawed that outsiders can easily infiltrate a user's machine to monitor Internet activity, steal personal data or plant ...
Digital TV signal switch triggers rush on converter box coupons - Chicago Tribune
By Wailin Wong | Tribune reporter Despite a four-month delay and public awareness efforts by broadcasters and federal and local officials, Friday's transition from analog to digital TV signals still caught some consumers off-guard.
Letterman Sends No Regrets - Washington Post
By Paul Farhi Mel Gibson apologized. So did Michael Richards and the Greaseman (didn't do much good). Politicians do it all the time.
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors - New York Times
By AO SCOTT ?I left my Rudy Giuliani suit at home,? says the mayor of New York City, brushing off an aide's plea to use an unfolding crisis as an opportunity to make a show of leadership for the cameras.
Yankees 9, Mets 8 Against Yankees, Mets Drop Ball (Literally) - New York Times
Alex Rodriguez after his pop fly. ?That's hard to believe because we tried to give the game away all night,? Joe Girardi said.
Red Sox charge in 13th to drop Phils - MLB.com
By Ian Browne / MLB.com PHILADELPHIA -- Ryan Howard's equalizing solo shot with one out in the bottom of the ninth against Ramon Ramirez prolonged the night for the Red Sox, but it didn't make it any less satisfying.
Rockies up win streak to nine - MLB.com
By Cheng Sio / MLB.com DENVER -- The Rockies reached into their bag of tricks to win their ninth straight game, a 6-4 victory over the Mariners Friday night at Coors Field in front of 30365.
Summer playgrounds may pose flu risk in NYC - mayor - Reuters
By Joan Gralla NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) - Cases of the new H1N1 flu virus are declining in New York, one of the US cities hit earliest and hardest by the new pandemic virus, health officials said on Friday.
HIV Found in 22 Actors in Sex Films Since 2004 - New York Times
By GARDINER HARRIS Health officials in Los Angeles said Friday that 22 actors in adult sex movies had contracted HIV since 2004, when a previous outbreak led to efforts to protect pornography industry employees.
FDA asthma-drug ruling affects Cornerstone - Bizjournals.com
The US Food and Drug Administration is now asking that makers of asthma drugs in a specific class of medications include a precaution in the labeling explaining that neuropsychiatric events have been reported in some patients taking these products - a ...
UN sanctions on NKorea may be futile - The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Sanctions can hobble countries that have bustling global trade and whose leaders give higher priority to feeding their malnourished people than building a nuclear bomb.
Conviction for a Fraud Who Fled With a Child - New York Times
By KATIE ZEZIMA BOSTON - A German who falsely claimed for years that he was a member of the Rockefeller family was convicted Friday of kidnapping his daughter and assaulting a social worker, and sentenced to four to five years in prison.
After 7 years at Gitmo, resettled Uyghurs grateful for freedom - CNN International
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CNN) -- Two of four Uyghurs relocated to Bermuda after seven years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, denied Friday that they had ever been terrorists, and expressed gratitude toward President Obama for working to free them.
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