Jon’’s NewsCloud Journal

“One day after the Yes Men made a joke announcement of ExxonMobil’s plans to turn billions of climate-change victims into a brand-new fuel called Vivoleum, the Yes Men’s upstream internet service provider shut down Vivoleum.com and cut off the Yes Men’s email service, in reaction to a complaint whose source they will not identify.
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The chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees yesterday ratcheted up their fight with President Bush over documents on the firing of U.S. attorneys, sending the White House a barbed letter demanding that the president back down from a claim of executive privilege — or give Congress a detailed explanation for withholding each document.
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The combination of pets and poverty, veterinary experts say, brings similar results to many rural areas: unhealthy conditions for oversized animal populations, desperate efforts by often-overwhelmed individuals to help and a lurking threat to human health.
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Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district today defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said.
The bomb near Piccadilly Circus was powerful enough to have caused “significant injury or loss of life” […]

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The five inches of settlement is still short of the six-inch amount at which the state had determined that repairs were needed, and “if it continues to follow the settlement trends in the past we should be well ahead of the 6-inch limit” by the time repairs start this fall, Coffman said. The state imposed […]

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The vegetarian snack food Veggie Booty has been recalled after public health officials identified it as the source of a salmonella outbreak that has afflicted mostly children under 10 years old, including four in Washington.
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The Food and Drug Administration today issued an alert challenging imports of five major types of farm-raised seafood from China, including shrimp and catfish, because testing found recurrent contamination from carcinogens and antibiotics.
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Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it was not automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on minimum retail prices.
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The Senate today drove a stake through President Bush’s plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants, likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections.
The bill’s supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to limit debate and clear the way for final passage of the legislation, which critics assailed as offering […]

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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department after what the panel’s chairman called “stonewalling of the worst kind” of efforts to investigate the National Security Agency’s policy of wiretapping without warrants.
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