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Senate Leader Presses Colleagues On ‘Cash for Clunkers’

Pressing colleagues to replenish the “cash-for-clunkers” program, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warned lawmakers they might miss their August vacation takeoff plans Friday if they don’t quickly pass the $2 billion measure.
“If we don’t work something out on the cash for clunkers,” Reid said from the Senate floor Wednesday morning, he would file motions to [...]

(August 5th, 2009)

Sony Has Two New eReaders, One is Pocket Sized for $199

Sony on Wednesday will unveil two new e-book devices, a pocket edition with a 5-inch screen for $199 and a touch-screen version starting at $299. The devices will be available at the end of August.
The company also plans to reduce all new releases and best sellers at its e-book store to $9.99 each, down from [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

HP Delivers More Compaq Budget Laptops

Lately HP has been making good use of its Compaq brand to meet this demand for budget netbooks and notebooks. Verizon has been offering new FiOS customers a free Compaq Mini 10.1-inch netbook. Last week, Wal-Mart began selling a 15.6-inch Compaq mainstream laptop for $298. Now HP has announced two new additions to the Compaq [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

Obama to Announce Elkhart Area Grants

The excitement was building Tuesday in Wakarusa, a day before President Barack Obama drops by to announce manufacturing grants for the economically hard-hit Elkhart County region.
The president was scheduled to announce the grants and give an outline of his economic recovery plans during an appearance Wednesday morning at Monaco RV in Wakarusa. The company is [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

Why is the GOP Slighting Hispanics?

“Tell them I’m sorry,” Hatch told a reporter, referring to the Latino community. “The Hispanic people are very important to me,” added Hatch, whose long personal friendship with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), an ally of Hispanics, as well as Hatch’s own Senate work and growing Latino population in his state lend credence to his claim. [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

At Least 4 Dead in Pittsburgh-Area Shooting

A man carrying a gun and a gym bag walked into a busy fitness center just outside Pittsburgh Tuesday evening and opened fire, killing at least three people and wounding nearly a dozen others, the police and witnesses said.
The shooting took place about 8:15 p.m. at an LA Fitness center aerobics class in a shopping [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

Showdown at Health Care Town Halls

The debate over President Obama’s top domestic priority is escalating as Congress takes a month-long recess. Several lawmakers have been booed, jeered, and occasionally cheered by protesters on their home turfs at town hall meetings on health care reform.
Gibbs singled out Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, as the ringleader.
“I think you’ve [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

Paula Abdul is Leaving American Idol

Abdul announced late Monday night on her official Twitter page that she will not be returning the highly popular show.
“With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to #IDOL. I’ll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all all being a part of a show that I helped from day1become an [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

100 Year Sentence for Former Executive After Committing $126 Million in Fraud

Okun, a former Miami, Florida, businessman, was sentenced to 100 years in prison by a federal judge in Richmond, Virginia, Tuesday for defrauding several hundred clients out of an estimated $126 million.
Madoff, by comparison, was sentenced five weeks ago to 150 years in prison for defrauding his clients of more than $50 billion.
In Okun’s [...]

(August 4th, 2009)

US Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace and Facebook

The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.
“These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday.
The [...]

(August 4th, 2009)