Bargains on bank-owned homes are quickly vanishing in the country's most competitive markets.Since the start of the mortgage...
Expert Witness Dinged $300,000 for Making Fake Child Porn
Label: Technology An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in child pornography cases is on the hook for $300,000 in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures of two juvenile girls from a Canadian stock-image website, then digitally modified them to make it appear as if the children were...
“Lincoln” Reviews: Is Steven Spielberg’s biopic Oscar-worthy?
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “Lincoln,” with a cast of acting titans like Daniel Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones, arrives in theaters Friday with many predicting big things come Oscar night. But does Steven Spielberg‘s biopic of the Great Emancipator live up to the early hype?Based on initial reviews, it seems like Spielberg and company have delivered. Critics...
FEMA Chief Tours Damaged NYU Langone Medical Center
Label: HealthThe federal government’s emergency management chief trudged through darkened subterranean hallways covered with silt and muddy water Friday, as he toured one of New York City’s top academic medical centers in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. The basement of the complex, NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan, smelled like the hold of a ship — a mixture of diesel oil and water. “You’re going...
Nov
09
Prop. 30 win gives Jerry Brown major boost
Label: World SACRAMENTO — Just a few weeks ago, as support for Gov. Jerry Brown's tax initiative appeared to falter, some of his fellow Democrats...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Nov. 9
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
“Twilight” fans camp out days ahead of “Breaking Dawn-Part 2″
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dozens of excited “Twilight” fans set up tents in Los Angeles on Thursday ahead of next week’s world premiere of the last film in the vampire romance franchise.Some 2,200 people from all over the world have registered to camp on a concrete plaza outside a downtown Los Angeles movie theater, movie studio Summit Entertainment said.
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States Rush to Meet Tight Health Care Deadlines
Label: HealthJim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto AgencySupporters of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act celebrated at the Supreme Court in June after the justices upheld the law. After nearly three years of legal and political threats that kept President Obama’s health care law in a constant state of uncertainty, his re-election on Tuesday all but guarantees that the historic legislation will survive. ...
Debt Ceiling Complicates a Tax Shift
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON — Come January, should Congress fail to act, the United States will face more than immense tax increases and spending cuts. It will also run out of room to finance its large running deficits. The Treasury Department expects the country to hit its debt ceiling, a legal limit on the amount the government is allowed to borrow, close to the end of the year. That would give Congress...
Nov
08
Blue reign in Sacramento: Democrats dominate California voting
Label: World SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats are on the cusp of a coveted supermajority in both the Assembly and Senate,...
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