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Congress Guts STOCK Act
A stealth attack by Senate leadership on Thursday demolished key provisions of the STOCK Act requiring electronic filing of financial disclosure statements and a new database of the information they contain. Original post on opensecrets.org Comments on reddit.com
Psychiatrist warned of Holmes threats before shooting, documents show
A University of Denver psychiatrist treating movie-theater massacre defendant James Holmes warned police of Original post on nbcnews.com Comments on reddit.com
South Korea Urges North to Stop Making Threats
Ministry of National Defense also says South’s forces are in full readiness posture, will completely punish North if there is any provocation Original post on voanews.com Comments on reddit.com
Full war declaration statement from DPRK (via KCNA.
Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in business, politics, entertainment, technology, and more in video and pictures. Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
PETA Goes After Assassin’s Creed For Its Depiction Of Whaling; Ubisoft Responds With A Heaping Dose Of Sarcasm
I’m not sure why it is that PETA feels it needs to pick fights with video games, but it continues to do so even after its last couple of efforts (vs. Pokemon [catch ALL the fake animals!] and Cooking Mama [dead animals for dinner!]) have… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
North Korea ends non-aggression pacts with South, cuts hotline
Pyongyang announced Friday that it is nullifying non-aggression pacts with South Korea and cutting the hotline with its neighbor. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
AFP: N.Korea voids pacts with South as sanctions toughened
North Korea vows to cancel Korean War ceasefire – World
North Korea vowed to cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean War, citing a U.S.-led push for punishing UN sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing U.S.-South Korean joint military drills. Original post on cbc.ca Comments on reddit.com
Dozens Killed as Explosions Hit Syrian University
Each side in Syria’s conflict blamed the other Tuesday after multiple blasts rocked Aleppo University, leaving 82 people dead, according to a Syrian official. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
US court drops charges on Aaron Swartz days after his suicide
A federal court in Massachusetts has dismissed the hacking case against Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on January 11 while facing decades behind bars and a $1 million fine. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
EU releases all data on GM corn linked to cancer
The EU’s food safety agency challenged its doubters on Monday, making available all the scientific information used to clear a genetically modified corn which a French researcher had linked to cancer. Original post on phys.org Comments on reddit.com
Neighbor disputes account of shooting – News
The owner of a home mistakenly entered by an intoxicated neighbor who was shot and killed by a Madison police officer arriving on the scene said he tried repeatedly to inform the officer that the intruder was someone known to him. Original post on channel3000.com Comments on reddit.com
NRA: Gun bans at schools create dangerous places
The NRA grives the lives lost in Connecticut, but school no-weapons policies put children’s lives at risk, the group’s chief said Friday. Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
Morgan Freeman denies making statement about school shooting
From Yahoo! News: LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Actor Morgan Freeman said on Sunday that he did not issue a statement blaming the media for sensationalizing the Newtown School shootings that left 20 children and several adults dead. The award-winning actor added that he never made or posted the statement that became a Facebook and Internet sensation, saying it was a hoax. His publicist Stan Rosenfield told TheWrap that the actor’s camp was trying to determine the origin of the hoax statement. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Morgan Freeman hoax: actor denies statement about Newtown shooting, spokesman says – The Clarion-Ledger
The words scrolling across Facebook timelines and twitter posts attributed to Morgan Freeman concerning the media’s involvement with the Newtown, Conn. shooting are misattributed according to the actor’s spokesperson, a source reported. Original post on clarionledger.com Comments on reddit.com
HP Investor Sues Over Losses From Alleged Autonomy Fraud
Hewlett-Packard Co. was sued by an investor over a $8.8 billion writedown that the company said was partly related to falsified finances at Autonomy Corp., the British software maker it bought last year. Original post on bloomberg.com Comments on reddit.com
McCain Backs Away From Benghazi Conspiracies
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today issued a statement essentially conceding that he was wrong in accusing the White House of changing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s talking points on Benghazi for political purposes. Former CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers last week that the CIA’s assessment that al Qaeda was responsible for the Sept. 11 attack [...] Original post on thinkprogress.org Comments on reddit.com
Anonymous warns Israel: ‘No one cuts internet on our watch!’
The hacktivist group Anonymous is angry at Israel, and not just for launching deadly airstrikes on Gaza. Members say the Israeli government Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
Kevin Clash statement: “I am relieved that this painful allegation has been put to rest. I will not discuss it further.”
Kevin Clash statement: Original post on breakingnews.com Comments on reddit.com
UK court orders Apple to pay Samsung’s legal fees in full after ‘false and misleading’ notice
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales has ordered Apple to pay the legal fees of competitor Samsung on an ‘indemnity basis’ after the company published a “false and misleading” notice in the wake… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
French Science Academies Slam Seralini Study Finding GMO Cancer Threat
France’s science academies slam a much-touted, and contended, study finding GM corn harmed rats. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Foxconn admits to child labor law breach with underage intern hires – Business Tech
The company says that it investigated reports of underage interns at one of its facilities, and found that some were as young as 14 years of age. Read this article by Don Reisinger on CNET News. Original post on cnet.com Comments on reddit.com
Julian Assange bids to sue Julia Gillard for defamation over WikiLeaks comments
JULIAN Assange has reportedly hired Sydney lawyers to pursue a defamation case against Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Original post on news.com.au Comments on reddit.com
How to confuse a moral compass: Nature News – Comment
Survey ‘magic trick’ causes attitude reversal. Original post on nature.com Comments on reddit.com
With attacks in Middle East, campaign turns to foreign policy – CNN Political Ticker
Washington (CNN) — Attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in Libya and Cairo sparked a sharp exchange of political attacks Wednesday, as Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama’s administration of sending Original post on cnn.com Comments on reddit.com
Obama: Romney has tendency to ‘shoot first, aim later’
President Obama suggested Wednesday that Mitt Romney acted too quickly in responding to the U.S. embassy in Cairo’s statement condemning an anti-Islam video. Original post on politico.com Comments on reddit.com
Mitt Romney will never be president
His disgraceful dishonesty in using the murder of a U.S. ambassador to attack Obama will haunt him Original post on salon.com Comments on reddit.com
Chuck Todd: Romney `outrageous’ and `irresponsible’ for politicizing U.S. deaths in Libya
Romney Blasts Obama on Cairo Embassy Statement of ‘Sympathy’
After saying earlier that Sept. 11 was not the day to criticize President Obama on foreign-policy matters, Mitt Romney late on Tuesday issued a statement blasting the Obama administration for a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo expressing what it characterized as sympathy for Muslims upset by anti-Muslim activity in the United States. But the GOP nominee apparently confused the sequence of events. Original post on al.com Comments on reddit.com