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NY Times reporter dies in Syria

New York Times correspondent and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid died Thursday in Syria of an apparent asthma attack while reporting on the uprising. Shadid, who survived a gunshot wound in the West Bank in 2002 and was captured for six days in Libya last year, was returning with smugglers from Syria to Turkey when he collapsed. Read More

UN Condemns Syrian Violence as Assad Intensifies Crackdown

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad intensified his assault on the city of Homs...  Friday after a UN General Assembly vote called on him to step down. General Assembly resolutions are non-binding, but reflect world opinion on major issues.  Just 11 nations joined Syria in voting against the resolution, led by Russia and China, which vetoed a similar measure in the UN Security Council earlier this month. Read More

Murdoch's Favorite Paper in Crisis

News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch flew to London Thursday to confront a hostile news staff on his flagship daily tabloid, The Sun. Police inquiries into illegal phone hacking led to the dawn arrest of 10 Sun’s staff in recent weeks on allegations of corruption and bribing police officials. Reports Friday spoke of a civil war atmosphere in the newsroom after Murdoch’s own investigation committee had passed information to police. Read More

MI5 Spied on Charlie Chaplin at J. Edgar's Behest

Newly-released documents from Britain's National Archives show Britain’s spy agency, MI5, opened a file on actor Charlie Chaplin in the 1950s at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Hoover wanted Chaplin banned from the US for alleged ties to the Communist Party. Chaplin went to London in 1952 but was refused re-entry to the US. He returned to the US once in 1972 to collect an honorary Oscar. Read More

Occupy Wall Street has a Super PAC

According to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission, Occupy Wall Street now has a super-PAC. Super-PAC's or political action committees can raise unlimited amounts of money for candidates. Under the section for related organizations, the filing lists "OCCUPY WALL STREET" with an address at "NONE AND EVERYWHERE" in the city of "ALL OF THEM.” Read More

Alaska oil well spews 42,000 gallons of drilling mud

A blowout Wednesday at an exploratory well near the Alaska coast of the Beaufort Sea spewed an estimated 42,000 gallons of drilling mud. Environmental groups said Thursday the incident underscores the threat to the pristine Arctic Ocean environment if offshore drilling is allowed by the Obama administration, No crude oil spilled onto the tundra and no workers were injured. The well, owned by Repsol E&P USA also expelled natural gas. Read More

Study shows western students lag Asians by three years

A new study by Australian think-tank The Grattan Institute said: “In Shanghai, the average 15-year-old mathematics student is performing at a level two to three years above his or her counterpart in Australia, the US and Europe.”  Grattan’s school education program director said: “As economic power is shifting from West to East, high performance in education is too.” Read More

Santorum's Top Campaign Donor Tells Women: Keep Your Knees Shut

Foster Friess, the 71-year-old multi-millionaire who’s given the most to a Super PAC supporting Rick Santorum for president said Thursday universal contraception coverage for women shouldn’t be needed because “Back in my day, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives,” adding: “The gals put it between their knees.” Santorum has called for an end to hormonal birth control, including “the pill.” Read More

7 Killed by Sectarian Violence in Pakistan

A suicide bomb ripped through a Pakistani market Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 45 others near a mosque in the country’s tribal badlands. The bomb exploded near a Sunni Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in Parachinar, a former flashpoint for sectarian violence between majority Sunni and minority Shiites. Read More