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Austin NBC Affiliate Cut To Promos 3 Seconds Before Game-Winning Goal In Stanley Cup Finals

With the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins tied 5-5 in overtime of game four of the Stanley Cup Finals, the NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas went to local news promos in the middle of play, missing the game-winning goal by just three seconds. … [Read More...]

The Mechanism That Holds Chinese Banks Together Is Falling Apart (FXI, EWH)

China's seven day repo rate hit a record high of 12% according to Bloomberg, the biggest one-day increase since 2006. Meanwhile the overnight repo rate was quoted near 25%. The liquidity squeeze in China first began ahead of the Dragon Boat … [Read More...]

Fans Flock To Ice Cream Shop Where ‘Sopranos’ Finale Was Filmed After James Gandolfini’s Death

"Sopranos" fans headed to the ice cream parlor that served as a diner setting in the series finale shortly after the news of James Gandolfini's death, … [Read More...]

Here’s What You Missed At The Aspen Food & Wine Classic [PHOTOS]

From foie gras and ceviche to meatballs and Patr … [Read More...]

US Politics

Dissent Festers in States That Obama Seems to Have Forgotten – New York Times

Yahoo! News (blog)Dissent Festers in States That Obama Seems to Have ForgottenNew York TimesThere was never a chance that North Dakota would give Mr. Obama its three electoral votes. So Mr. Obama has not given North Dakota his time. It is one of … [Read More...]

Obama Urges ‘Bold’ Nuclear Cuts in Berlin Speech – TIME

Voice of AmericaObama Urges 'Bold' Nuclear Cuts in Berlin SpeechTIME(BERLIN) — Summoning the harsh history of this once-divided city, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cautioned the U.S. and Europe against “complacency” brought … [Read More...]

Optimistic Fed Outlines an End to Its Stimulus – New York Times (blog)

New York Times (blog)Optimistic Fed Outlines an End to Its StimulusNew York Times (blog)The central bank would then take several more years to unwind the rest of its extraordinary stimulus campaign, slowly raising short-term interest rates from … [Read More...]

Foreign Policy

Remedial Education: Federal Education Policy – Council on Foreign Relations

Remedial Education: Federal Education PolicyCouncil on Foreign Relations... in fact, the United States has slipped ten spots in both high school and college graduation rates over the past three decades, according to a new report and scorecard … [Read More...]

Chuck Todd, Syria, and the “Objective” View of US Foreign Policy – CounterPunch

Chuck Todd, Syria, and the “Objective” View of US Foreign PolicyCounterPunchOne final imperial premise that Chuck Todd has evidently accepted lock, stock, and barrel: the idea that, out of all the countries in the world, the United States is … [Read More...]

Domestic dissent can change US foreign policy for the better – The Guardian

The GuardianDomestic dissent can change US foreign policy for the betterThe GuardianBenjamin is the co-founder of Code Pink, a very effective grassroots antiwar group that has become the conscience of the nation as our leaders have drifted into … [Read More...]

Justice

Texas Border Checkpoint Mostly Ensnares Americans For Drug Offenses

Fifteen miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, a sleepy Texas county with more square miles than people is home to a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint. But while the checkpoint is intended to snag immigration violations, most of its work is busting … [Read More...]

Google Moves To Lift Gag Order On NSA Surveillance

(Credit: Flickr user Robert Scoble)Google has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to recognize the company’s First Amendment right to speak up about its role in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) online … [Read More...]

The Term ‘Illegal Alien’ Is Going Out Of Style

(Credit: Colorlines)A Pew research study released this week found that the use of the phrase “illegal alien” has declined in 2013 compared to its usage during other periods of time when immigration-relevant legislation was in the … [Read More...]

Elections 2012

The Case Against Immigration Reform Just Got a Lot Uglier

"It’s easier to frame opposition using the bloodless language of the budget than the combustible language of national character and composition," The Washington Post's Ezra Klein wrote this mornin, but the Congressional Budget Office … [Read More...]

U.S. Bureaucracy Stymies Commercial Innovation, Report Says

In 1943, the U.S. government opened a top-secret research lab in Los Alamos, N.M., gathering the country’s best scientists to research a breakthrough technology that would advance the nation’s strategic goals in the midst of the Second World … [Read More...]

Republican-led House passes bill restricting abortion

By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation severely restricting abortions, a move that could alienate women from the conservative party. The bill would ban … [Read More...]

World News

Brazil fares move fails to quell protests – BBC News

BBC NewsBrazil fares move fails to quell protestsBBC NewsBrazilian authorities have failed to halt nationwide protests, despite reversing the public-transport fare increases that sparked the unrest. Crowds blocked main roads in Sao Paulo and … [Read More...]

Pondering Pyongyang: Beijing’s problem child – CNN

Economic TimesPondering Pyongyang: Beijing's problem childCNNHong Kong (CNN) -- The naughty step is not working. After the United Nations slapped tougher sanctions on North Korea after its third nuclear test in February this year, Pyongyang … [Read More...]

KKK member, accomplice created lethal X-ray system, FBI says – CNN

ABC NewsKKK member, accomplice created lethal X-ray system, FBI saysCNNNew York (CNN) -- Two New York state men have been charged in a bizarre plan to develop a mobile X-ray system that would be used from afar to silently kill people that they … [Read More...]

Politics & Media

Glenn Beck Compares Pro-Immigration Protesters To The Ku Klux Klan

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been a major influence on the Republican party’s hard-line immigration stance, which played a … [Read More...]

My Former Boss Stossel Is Wrong: The NSA’s Surveillance Is Troubling

As a libertarian, I have the utmost respect for my former boss John Stossel. Along with Judge Napolitano and Red Eye’s Andy Levy, he is one … [Read More...]

The Virtuous Beauty Of Nuclear Weapons And Obama’s Simplistic Worldview

Predictably, in his Berlin address on Wednesday, President Barack Obama called for a bilateral reduction in the nuclear arsenals maintained by … [Read More...]

FBI Director Acknowledges Domestic Use Of Surveillance Drones, Says Agency Is ‘Exploring’ Guidelines

During a Senate hearing, FBI chief Robert Mueller acknowledged the use of drones on U.S. soil. He said they were for the purpose of surveillance … [Read More...]