2008. december 5., péntek

Understanding but no consensus on auto bailout

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is broad understanding of distress but no consensus yet in Congress to rescue U.S. automakers as industry chiefs hope on Friday to advance their case in a second appearance before lawmakers in two days.




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Minn. baby sitter admits using charge in porn film (AP)

AP - A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to answering an online advertisement for baby-sitting work and then using the client's child to make a pornographic video.

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US mulls unusual tactic as Blackwater charges loom (AP)

Plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada Al Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers in Najaf, Iraq in this April 4, 2004 file photo. The Blackwater USA contractors were actively involved in defending the position.  (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez, File)AP - The Justice Department is readying indictments that could send Blackwater Worldwide guards to prison for at least 30 years for their involvement in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians, people close to the case said.




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TBS sets stage for vaudeville (Reuters)

Reuters - TBS is looking to do a contemporary take on vaudeville, ordering a half-hour pilot hosted by Canadian comic Harland Williams.

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2008. december 4., csütörtök

Gun club, police chief indicted in boy's Uzi death (AP)

In this photo taken Oct. 29, 2005, Dominic Spano, front, of New Milford, Conn., and his son, Michael Spano, 12, load an MG-42 machine gun during the Westfield Sportsman's Club's annual Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the club ground in Westfield, Mass. It was announced Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008, that Dominic Spano and two other men were indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj, who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi during a gun show at the Westfield club in October 2008.  (AP Photo/The Republican, Christopher Evans)AP - Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle.




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The Roundtable: Cabinet Politics

George Will, Torie Clarke, Donna Brazile, and Matt Dowd.

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