By Zach Carter Huffington Post In a stunning break with First Amendment policy, House Republicans directed Capitol Hill police to detain a highly regarded documentary crew that was attempting to film a Wednesday hearing on a controversial natural gas procurement practice. Initial reports from sources suggested that an ABC News camera was also prevented from taping the hearing; ABC has since denied that they sent a crew to the hearing.
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By Michael Cook BioEdge Is it morally wrong to kill people? Not really, argue two eminent American bioethicists in an early online article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, of Duke University, and Franklin G. Miller, of the National Institutes of Health believe that “killing by itself is not morally wrong, although it is still morally wrong to cause total disability”.
By Marc Kaufman Washington Post After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years.
DC MD VA WV PA NC NJ NY RI Bolide Meteor Fireball with Sonics & Fragmentation 3FEB2012 By Lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com 03FEB2012 Jacob Baltimore, MD 2217 EST 2-4 sec SSW-NNE, stopped mid sky white/green ball with orange/fire tail Venus no fragmentation seen Very bright, white/green ball streaking from SSW-NNE with long fire tail. Seen from my apartment window over downtown Baltimore
By ZEINA KARAM Associated Press Syrian forces hammered restive neighborhoods in the city of Homs for hours with mortars and artillery before dawn Saturday, sending terrified residents fleeing into basements and killing more than 200 people in the bloodiest episode of the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said.
By Colum Lynch Washington Post Russia and China on Saturday vetoed a U.N. resolution condemning Syria’s violent repression of anti-government demonstrators, effectively quashing efforts to isolate President Bashar al-Assad’s government as it intensifies a nearly year-long crackdown.
By Agence France-Presse Raw-Story On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with cigarette lighters, toy soldiers and other small plastic objects their parents have mistaken for food.
By Rory Carroll Guardian UK British diplomats have accused Argentina of plotting an economic blockade of the Falklands amid fears that Buenos Aires is attempting to stop all flights from Chile reaching the islands
A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called “Communities Against Terrorism”
By: David Swanson Truth-Out Weaponized UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also known as drones, have their own caucus in Congress, and the Pentagon’s plan is to give them their own state as well.
By Saki Knafo Huffington Post This article is the first in a two-part series tracing the development of the amorphous online community known as Anonymous, pranksters who have become a force in global affairs.
By Huffington Post Photographs and video recordings of Osama bin Laden’s death may be released to the public, The Atlantic Wire reports.
By Jim Armstrong WBZ-TV It’s going to be a while before things get back to normal for Judy Sanchez and her three-year-old daughter.
Peter Schiff interviewed by Kerry Lutz at the FreedomFest’s Global Economic Summit in the Bahamas : Peter Schiff in his speech warned the Americans about the dollar losing its hegemony
By Ryan Jaslow CBS News Talk about being a picky eater. A British teenager reportedly has eaten “practically nothing” but chicken nuggets for the past 15 years. And now she’s paying for it.
By Yahoo News A 16 kilo (35.5 pounds) consignment of cocaine lost by Mexican drug traffickers has turned up in an unlikely place — the United Nations in New York.