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EU blocking exports of death penalty drugs & equipment to US
With its legislation this week limiting our access to the drugs we use to kill one another, the European Union has just proven that if America is still a superpower, that designation must carry a prominent asterisk for how easily we're humbled these days. The EU is now blocking importation of technology into the United States that we cannot be trusted to use properly. As widely reported yesterday, the EU is cutting off our supply to the drugs we use for lethal injections, some of which we no longer have the capacity to manufacture domestically:
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Girl Swept Away by 2004 Tsunami Turns Up 7 Years Later
Wati was just eight years old when, on the day after Christmas 2004, the massive Indian Ocean tsunami swept her away from her mother and two sisters in Ujong Baroh, Aceh, on the island of Sumatra. Everyone assumed she was dead.. -
MN anchor mocked on Letterman show arrested for DWI
ings just keep getting worse for KEYC news anchor Annie Stensrud.
Stensrud, who made David Letterman's Top 10 List after many speculated she was drunk during a recent newscast, was arrested and jailed Wednesday for allegedly driving while intoxicated.. . -
Dorsey Levens suing the NFL over concussions
Four former NFL players, including Jamal Lewis and Dorsey Levens, have filed a lawsuit against the league, claiming that brain injuries that sustained during their career left them struggling with medical problems years after retiring, reports ESPN.
Lewis and Levens, along with Fulton Kuykendall and Ryan Stewart, filed the suit against the NFL and FNL Properties LLC this week in U.S. District Court in Atlanta where all the players currently live.
The players claim the NFL knew as early as the 1920s of the potential for concussions to harm its players. The men says they currently suffer from a range of medical problems stemming from their playing days, including memory loss, headaches and sleeplessness.
“The NFL has done everything in its power to hide the issue and mislead players concerning the risks associated with concussions,” the players argue in the lawsuit.
In response, the NFL said they’ve long made player safety a priority and continues to do so.More » -
Does Kindle Fire Prove A Dissonance Between Consumers & Tech Community?
If you’re Amazon, apparently bad news doesn’t really matter because the Kindle Fire continues to be the #1 best selling item from their website for the 11th straight week (since its debut). According to a press release from yesterday, not only are sales of the tablet increasing with each week but this is the third week in a row that they’ve sold over one million units from the general Kindle family.. -
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Callin’ Oates: The Hotline You Don’t Need (But Might Call Anyway)
Is it pure whimsy that makes something like "Callin' Oates" appealing?
If you pick up your phone and call 719-26-OATES — at least as of this writing — you'll get a computerized woman's voice telling you what numbers to press to hear one of four Hall & Oates songs.
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Best Buy can’t fill some online orders for Christmas
Best Buy gave its online customers just about the worst news possible four days before Christmas: Your order has not been filled.
The Richfield-based retailer said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that it will not be able to process some of its online orders by Friday, including some made the day after Thanksgiving.
"Due to overwhelming demand of hot product offerings on BestBuy.com during the November and December time period, we have encountered a situation that has affected redemption of some of our customers' online orders," it said. "We are very sorry for the inconvenience this has caused, and we have notified the affected customers.". -
Chryst to leave Badgers for Pitt job
University of Wisconsin offensive coordinator Paul Chryst is the new head football coach at Pittsburgh.
A UW source confirmed late Wednesday night that Chryst had taken the job.
An NFL source told the State Journal earlier it was a done deal and the announcement would be made on Friday.
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Karl Rove piles on, tells Republicans to cut bait in tax standoff
You know it's bad for Republicans when Karl Rove says it's time to cave and move on.
The former political adviser to President George W. Bush said Wednesday that the famously conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page was right when it said House Republicans should cut their losses and agree with a bipartisan Senate plan extend for just two months the payroll tax cut enacted last year.
Republicans "have lost the optics on it," Rove told Fox News, "the question now is how do the Republicans get out of it."
Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans on Tuesday blocked a Senate proposal to extend a popular tax cut for working Americans for two months in an effort to allow lawmaker from both parties more time to hash out a larger compromise on a host of issues that were holding up the payroll tax extension.. -
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