N. Korea threatens to attack US, S. Korea warships
By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer – 30 mins ago
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas' disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime's underground nuclear test.
Pyongyang, reacting angrily to Seoul's decision to join an international program to intercept…
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North Korea Threatens Armed Strike, End to Armistice (Update2)
By Heejin Koo
May 27 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea threatened a military response to South Korean participation in a U.S.-led program to seize weapons of mass destruction, and said it will no longer abide by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War.
“The Korean People’s Army will not be bound to the Armistice Agreement any longer,” the official Korean Central News Agency said in a…
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer – 7 mins ago
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea warned South Korea and the United States on Wednesday that Seoul's participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction is equal to a declaration of war.
South Korea announced its participation in the U.S.-led program on Tuesday, one day after North Korea defiantly conducted a nuclear test, drawing international criticism.
The North's…
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Supreme Court rules police can initiate suspect's questioning
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that police, under certain circumstances, can initiate an interrogation of a suspect without the defendant's lawyer being present.
By a 5-4 vote, the conservative majority overruled a 23-year-old Supreme Court decision that barred the police from initiating questioning after a defendant asserted the right to an…
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"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
A speech delivered by Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775.
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my…
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From The Sunday Times
May 24, 2009
Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation
America's richest people meet to discuss ways of tackling a 'disastrous' environmental, social and industrial threat
John Harlow, Los Angeles
SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.
The philanthropists who attended a summit…
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N. Korea says it conducted nuclear test
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea says it has successfully conducted a nuclear test.
The country's official Korean Central News Agency reported that the test was carried out Monday.
Lee Dong-kwan, a spokesman for the South Korean president, says that a nuclear test may have been carried out in the North.
President Lee Myung-bak has called an emergency security session.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for…
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Kalifornia No More?
Posted: 22 May 2009 11:51 AM PDT
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to completely eliminate California’s welfare program for families, medical insurance for low-income children and Cal-Grants cash assistance to college and university students.
The proposals to sharply scale back the assistance that California provides to its residents came in testimony by Schwarzenegger’s administration this afternoon at a joint legislative budget…
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