8 Dems oppose quick debate on global warming bill
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- 8 Dems oppose quick debate on global warming bill
- Bringing the cellar to life in court
- Red Cross report: CIA tortured terror suspects
- Government Seeks to Take Bernie and Ruth Madoff’s Houses Assets
- Last Seattle PI print edition will be Tuesday
8 Dems oppose quick debate on global warming bill
The Associated Press
The eight Democrats disapprove of using the annual budget debate to pass bama’s “cap and trade” bill to fight greenhouse gas emissions a measure that divides lawmakers environmentalists and businesses. The lawmakers’ opposition makes it more difficult for Democratic leaders to move the bill without a threat of a Republican filibuster. The budget debate is the only way to circumvent Senate rules that allow a unified GP to stop a bill through filibusters. “Enactment of a cap-and-trade regime is likely to influence nearly every feature of the U.
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Bringing the cellar to life in court
BBC News
It is a far cry from the cramped damp conditions in the cellar in Ybbsstrasse in Amstetten where the Fritzl family lived. I was one of around 100 journalists allowed into court. Many of us there had covered this case since it came to light almost a year ago. But apart from brief glimpses of Josef Fritzl photographed through car windows few of us had seen him in person.
Red Cross report: CIA tortured terror suspects
The Associated Press
The ICRC report was obtained by Mark Danner a journalist and professor at the University of California at Berkeley and excerpted in the April 9 issue of the New York Review of Books. The neutral Swiss-based ICRC is designated by the Geneva Conventions on warfare to visit prisoners of war and other people detained by an occupying power to ensure countries respect their obligations under the 1949 accords. ICRC officials would not confirm details of the report to The Associated Press and denied leaking it. “We regret that information attributed to the ICRC has been made public.
Government Seeks to Take Bernie and Ruth Madoff’s Houses Assets
ABC News
The government wants to seize the $7 million Upper East Side apartment as well as the couples’ homes in Palm Beach the Hamptons and France according to court filings in district court in New York. Prosecutors have filed their intent to seek forfeiture of the couples’ homes as well as assets including their 70 foot yacht “Bull” four cars including a BMW and two Mercedes Ruth’s Steinway piano (valued at $39000) and a silverware set (valued at $65000).
Last Seattle PI print edition will be Tuesday
Bizjournals.com
makes its much-anticipated move to operate an online-only news venture in Seattle. The shutdown of the print edition announced Monday affects most of the 170 P-I staffers and comes two months after P-I’s parent Hearst Corp. — awash in red ink in Seattle — announced it was seeking a buyer for the P-I and would shut down the daily newspaper if none surfaced.
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