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Washington – House OKs $642 Billion Defense Bill, Obama Threatening Veto

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:20:05 +0000

Washington — The House has passed a $642 billion defense bill despite a White House veto threat. The vote Friday was 299-120. The bill breaks the deficit-cutting agreement that President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans backed last summer, instead adding $8 billion for the military for next year. The bill calls for a missile defense [...]

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New York – Prominent CBS News Producer Rosenbaum Dies At 64

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:00:03 +0000

New York — Michael Rosenbaum, an award-winning CBS News producer who served as Tel Aviv bureau chief during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, has died. He was 64. CBS News reports that Rosenbaum died Thursday in New York of a brain tumor. Rosenbaum collaborated with correspondents Bob Simon and Dan Rather on stories in [...]

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New York – Facebook Stock Jumps 10 Percent In Public Debut

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:10 +0000

New York — Facebook stock is rising more than10 percent in the world’s biggest online social network’s debut as a publicly traded company. The stock rose to $42.05 on the Nasdaq Stock market on Friday morning. CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Surrounded by cheering Facebook employees [...]

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Facebook IPO Rises 11 Percent At Open

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:09 +0000

Shares of Facebook Inc. FB +5.26% made modest early gains during its IPO debut Friday, with the social networking website company’s stock increasing about 11% on its first trade. The Menlo Park, Calif., company’s shares opened at $42.05 apiece on the Nasdaq Stock Market, up from its initial public offering price of $38. The deal [...]

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How Did Israel Go from Inspiring Underdog to Supposed Oppressor?

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:07 +0000

By Michael Oren, The Wall Street Journal
So Life magazine described Israel on the occasion of its 25th birthday in May 1973. In a 92-page special issue, “The Spirit of Israel,” the magazine extolled the Jewish state as enlightened, robustly democratic and hip, a land of “astonishing achievement” that dared “to dream the dream [...]

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What Israel Can Teach China

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:05 +0000

By Jiang Xueqin
In September 2010, I created Peking University High School International Division as a laboratory to see if and how creativity can be taught in China.
Last week, twenty students and I traveled to Israel for six days to study what makes Israel “a start-up nation,” as Dan Senor and Saul Singer call it [...]

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Clinton: We Don’t Want the Iranians to Say “We’ll Get Back to You”

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:00:04 +0000

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with USA Today Tuesday, said the United States and its P5+1 partners have reached a united position on what to seek from Iran in a near-term confidence building measure, and have relayed the outlines of the proposed deal to Iran ahead of new nuclear talks in [...]

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London-Bound El Al Airliner Forced To Land Over Technical Fault

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:40:04 +0000

An El Al airliner bound for London was forced to land in Ben-Gurion International Airport on Friday shortly after taking off, after discovering a technical fault in its flaps. The malfunction was discovered 40 minutes into its flight, at which point the plant was instructed to burn fuel and return to Tel Aviv. It then [...]

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Brooklyn, NY – DA Hynes In Stern Warning To Jewish Community: I’m Out To Get The Charedi Mafia Style Intimidators

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:07 +0000

Brooklyn, NY — Responding to criticism of his handling of sexual abuse within the Orthodox Jewish community, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes had strong words for anyone who intimidates victims and prevents them from seeking justice. Speaking on NY1’s Inside City Hall program yesterday, both Hynes and Rhonnie Jaus, head of the Brooklyn Sex Crimes [...]

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UN nuclear chief to visit Tehran for talks

Psycho — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:00:04 +0000

Surprise development comes as Western diplomats say IAEA, Iran are making headway toward framework deal over Islamic Republic’s atomic activity; Amano to discuss “issues of mutual interest with high Iranian officials.”

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