Apparently someone is thinking in Washington: The U.S. government sued to block AT&T Inc.’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market. The Justice Department complaint was filed today in federal court inWashington. The U.S. is seeking a declaration that Dallas-based AT&T’s takeover of […]
Hurricane Irene is continuing to gain steam in the Atlantic and is now predicted to reach Cat-4 status late Thursday, right before it hits the eastern seaboard of Florida. It will continue up the coast and weaken to a still strong Cat 3 as it hits Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia. Here is the current […]
The big news of the day is the fall of Tripoli and that raises the question if it will embolden more rebels in the Middle East to do the same: The implosion of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year-old rule will put a new spring in the step of the Arab revolutions and demonstrate once again […]
We knew this was coming: Prosecutors will ask a judge to dismiss all charges in the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn at a court hearing on Tuesday, the New York Post reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources. The Manhattan district attorney’s office will file a motion recommending the case be dropped […]
We haven’t heard much from the News Corp/Murdoch hacking scandal lately. I think that is all about to change: A former News of the World reporter has alleged that there was a massive cover-up of phone hacking at the paper. Clive Goodman, the former royal reporter jailed for his role in phone hacking, wrote a […]
Take that Mother Nature! Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts Saturday to close intakes. […]
In 2005 California passed a law banning the sale of violent video games to those under 18. The law has constantly been challenged in the courts, so it was never fully enacted and now it never will be: The court reached a decision in Brown v. the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) by a vote of […]
I wonder if this story will get the same media attention as say John Edwards: Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago — before his first run for office — with a longtime member of their household staff. […]
Al Qaeda has vowed revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden and it looks like they are making good on it: Pakistan’s Taliban on Friday claimed their first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death as 80 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre. Around 140 […]
The AP is reporting that John Ensign, the Senator from Nevada who has a problem keeping it in his pants, won’t seek re-election. Looks like we could see another interesting Nevada Senate race next year.