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Helicopter crashes into Hudson River

A helicopter with pontoons crashed into the Hudson River about 50 yards
north of the Lincoln Tunnel at about 5 p.m.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/07/2007 05:39:00 PM 0 comments

A suicide bomber detonated a truck full of explosives in the crowded
outdoor market of a Shiite farming town north of Baghdad, leveling
houses and stores and killing more than 100 people. 

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/07/2007 05:07:00 PM 0 comments

Two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain made inquiries about
working in the United States, the FBI said Friday, and police said an
Iraqi
doctor arrested at Glasgow airport became the first person charged in
the attacks.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/06/2007 04:32:00 PM 0 comments

In another setback to President Bush's increasingly unpopular war
strategy, Republican Party stalwart Sen. Pete Domenici said he wanted to
see an end to combat operations and U.S. troops heading home from Iraq
by spring.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/06/2007 02:15:00 PM 0 comments

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/johnDispatch

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/06/2007 01:52:00 PM 0 comments

U.S. payrolls up 132,000 in June, above forecasts ; unemployment rate
holds at 4.5%.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/06/2007 11:46:00 AM 0 comments

Fireworks Spark Deadly Shootings

Police in Cleveland say a man apparently angry about fireworks at a
noisy Fourth of July party shot three people to death and wounded two
others. Another man was shot to death during an argument at a fireworks
celebration near Seattle. 

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/05/2007 06:31:00 PM 0 comments

Independence Day celebrations were planned across the nation on a day
that will include plenty of fireworks, thousands of immigrants becoming
citizens and heightened security following attempted car bombings in
Britain. 

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/04/2007 01:37:00 PM 0 comments

BBC REPORTER ALAN JOHNSTON HAS BEEN FREED BY HIS CAPTORS IN GAZA, NEARLY
FOUR MONTHS AFTER HE WAS KIDNAPPED AT GUNPOINT BY AN ARMED GROUP
CLAIMING TO BE LINKED TO AL QAEDA

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/04/2007 10:16:00 AM 0 comments

President Bush refused to rule out an eventual pardon for former White
House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. "As to the future, I rule nothing
in and nothing out," the president said a day after commuting Libby's
30-month prison term.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/03/2007 04:34:00 PM 0 comments

Breaking News

MAN THOUGHT TO HAVE DRUG-RESISTANT STRAIN OF TUBERCULOSIS, SETTING OFF
WORLDWIDE SCARE, ACTUALLY HAS A LESS SEVERE FORM OF THE DISEASE,
ACCORDING TO FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/03/2007 03:35:00 PM 0 comments

Democrats blasted President Bush's decision to commute the 30 month
sentence given to former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. And
while some Republicans applauded the decision, others grumbled Libby
should have been granted a full pardon. 

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/03/2007 09:16:00 AM 0 comments

July 2, 2007

Opera star Beverly Sills dies of cancer at 78

Brooklyn-born opera singer, Beverly Sills, died Monday of cancer, her
manager said. She was 78.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/03/2007 09:16:00 AM 0 comments

British authorities are holding seven people in their investigation into
a triple-car bomb terror plot, including two doctors — one from Jordan
and one from Iraq. Police also say they have searched 19 locations. 

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/02/2007 04:15:00 PM 0 comments

A federal appeals court has refused to delay the imprisonment of former
White House aide I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, who was sentenced in the
CIA leak case.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/02/2007 01:05:00 PM 0 comments

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/johnDispatch

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/02/2007 12:36:00 PM 0 comments

Police say eight people were killed and seven wounded in an explosion at
ancient temple site in Yemen's northeast province of Mareb.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/02/2007 11:22:00 AM 0 comments

ISM manufacturing index rises in June to 56, according to Reuters; index
above forecasts.

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/02/2007 10:35:00 AM 0 comments

http://www.bloglines.com/blog/johnDispatch

// posted by itsjohntime @ 7/01/2007 05:52:00 PM 0 comments