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Most popular news on 11 July 2009 |
Dispute over flag protest erupts in Wisc. village
AP - An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it — an Iraq war veteran — claims the officers trespassed and stole his property.
Fla. couple who adopted 12 children found slain
AP - Investigators asked the public to be on the lookout Friday for a red van they believe carried three men involved in the deaths of a Florida Panhandle couple who were shot in their rural home while eight of their children slept.
Paris Hilton insists she plugged sorority movie
AP - Paris Hilton repeatedly fussed with her hair and makeup in a federal courtroom Friday, sported six-inch stiletto heels and a black dress and amused the judge with a little wave on the way to the witness stand.
Report: Bush surveillance program was massive
AP - The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal.
GLAAD: `Bruno' reinforces negative gay stereotypes
AP - The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation said Friday that "Bruno," the new film starring Sacha Baron Cohen, reinforces negative stereotypes and "decreases the public's comfort with gay people."
Pa. swim club defends self against race accusation
AP - The head of a private suburban Philadelphia swim club on Friday defended its cancellation of the memberships of dozens of minority children, saying safety, not racism, was the reason.
Prosecutors: Jailed evangelist 'married' girls
AP - Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo "married" the underage girls he allegedly forced into sex, exchanging wedding vows and rings, prosecutors said.
CEO vows better performance as GM exits bankruptcy
AP - General Motors completed an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection on Friday with ambitions of making money and building cars people are eager to buy. Once the world's largest and most powerful automaker, new GM is now leaner, cleansed of massive debt and burdensome contracts that would have sunk it without federal loans.
French tourists seen as world's worst: survey
Reuters - French tourists are the worst in the world, coming across as bad at foreign languages, tight-fisted and arrogant, according to a survey of 4,500 hotel owners across the world.
Death toll from China's ethnic riots hits 184
AP - China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving an ethnic breakdown of the dead for the first time after communal violence broke out in this far western city.
More bones found, Ill. cemetery closed to public
AP - Some horrified relatives who searched Friday for loved ones' plots at a historic black cemetery at the center of a gravedigging scheme near Chicago instead found more human bones on the grounds, prompting authorities to close the cemetery and treat it as an expanding crime scene.
Obama in Ghana on first sub-Saharan Africa visit
Reuters - President Barack Obama was given a hero's welcome in Ghana on Friday on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office as the first black president of the United States.
Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells
AP - Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home.
World has avoided economic disaster, Obama says
AP - Lasting worldwide recovery "is still a ways off," President Barack Obama declared Friday, but he also said at the conclusion of a global summit that a disastrous economic collapse apparently has been averted.
Homeland unveils immigration enforcement plan
AP - An overhauled federal program allowing local and state law enforcement officials to arrest and deport immigrants will focus on the most serious criminals and limit officers' police powers, the Homeland Security Department said Friday.
Pakistan's Red Mosque cleric warns of 'bloody revolution'
AFP - The most hardline cleric in Pakistan's capital on Friday demanded that the government enforce Islamic law or risk bloody revolution, two years after security forces stormed his Red Mosque.
Attempt to beat train in Mich. ends 5 young lives
AP - Fourteen-year-old Jessica Sadler wanted to go to the beach with her boyfriend on a warm summer day, but her mother said no, absolutely not. She had better come home or she would be in big trouble.
Everyday Americans argue for public healthcare option
Reuters - Kathy Cook's health insurance premiums of $740 a month are nearly as costly as her mortgage. William McEachen struggles to help his disabled adult daughter get the care and medicines she needs. Business owner Don Phipps is outraged at rapidly rising insurance premiums for himself and his employees.
Carrey to be a grandfather; his daughter expecting
AP - Jim Carrey is going to be a grandfather.
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