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Republican Martinez to Resign U.S. Senate Seat

Sen. Mel Martinez, a Florida Republican, announced Friday that he will resign his seat as soon as a replacement can be named by the governor.
“My priorities have always been my faith, my family and my country, and, at this stage of my life and after nearly 12 years of public service in Florida and [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Russian Hackers Eyed in Attack on Twitter, Google and Facebook

Anti-Georgia Russian hackers may have been behind yesterday’s global cyber attacks on Google, Facebook and Twitter.
The organised web assaults completely shut down social networking site Twitter and disrupted access to Facebook — nearly a year to the day since the outbreak of the Georgia-Russia war.
Search engine Google was also targeted but managed to fend off [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Washington, D.C. takes Al Franken By Storm

It might have been a quick jump into the deep end, but Franken had some time to plan his first senatorial actions: There were seven months between Election Day and his swearing-in.
The Minnesota Supreme Court worked at length to determine whether he or Republican incumbent Norm Coleman had received more votes, and after Coleman contested [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Kelly LeBrock: In Her Own Words About John Hughes

Like many people, Kelly LeBrock was shocked to learn about John Hughes’s sudden death. Unlike most people, the actress knew him well: She starred in the 1985 comedy Weird Science. Reached by PEOPLE Friday, an emotional LeBrock reminisced about “a wonderful human being”:
“This is very tragic news. I’m devastated. I can’t believe he’s gone. He [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Job Losses Slow in July, Signaling Shift in the Economy

The most heartening employment report since last summer suggested on Friday that a recovery is under way — and perhaps gathering steam — despite the reluctance of the nation’s businesses to resume hiring or even stop shedding jobs.
Employers eliminated 247,000 jobs in July, a huge number by the standards of an ordinary recession, but the [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Eunice Kennedy Shriver in Critical Condition

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, was in critical condition Friday at a Massachusetts hospital.
Shriver, 88, was surrounded by her husband, children and grandchildren at Cape Cod Hospital in Barnstable, said family spokesman Stephen Rivers.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the husband of Shriver’s daughter, Maria, [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Analyst Predicts Apple Mini Computer in 2010

A prominent technology analyst predicted that Apple Inc. would release a “tablet” or mini-computer for sale early next year, and that it could boost the consumer electronics company’s revenue by 3 percent in 2010.
Speculation of a tablet from Apple has been swirling among analysts and technology blogs for a couple years as other PC makers [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Tesla Motors Finally Turns A Profit

Tesla Motors says it earned a profit last month, the first time the Silicon Valley automaker has run in the black since its founding in 2002.
The company earned $1 million on $20 million in revenue in July after shipping a record 109 Roadsters. It attributed the profit largely to improved margins on the electric two-seater [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Obama Asks Supreme Court To Block Detainee Photos

The administration took the issue to the high court after President Obama in May reversed a decision to stop fighting the release of the photographs.
The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block the release of disturbing pictures of detainee abuse on grounds their disclosure could incite violence in Afghanistan and Iraq [...]

(August 7th, 2009)

Cocaine A Factor in Billy Mays’ Death

An autopsy report issued Friday by Hillsborough County, Florida, cites cocaine as a contributing factor in the death of TV pitchman Billy Mays, who died in June at age 50.
“Mays died from a lethal arrhythmia of the heart caused by hypertensive and arteriosclerotic heart disease,” the county said in a statement attributed to Dr. [...]

(August 7th, 2009)