Posted by: clickry on: September 10, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday. Under recently disclosed Department of Homeland Security policies, such seizures may be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing, the newspaper said, [...]
Posted by: clickry on: August 31, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New estimates show that least 56,000 people become infected with the AIDS virus every year in the United States — 40 percent more than previous calculations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Saturday. The CDC stressed that actual infection rates have not risen but said better methods of [...]
Posted by: clickry on: August 19, 2008
Associated Press North Korean troops surrendered to American soldiers on Wolmi Island on Sept. 22, 1950. WOLMI ISLAND, South Korea — When American troops stormed this island more than half a century ago, it was a hive of Communist trenches and pillboxes. Now it is a park where children play and retirees stroll along a [...]
Posted by: clickry on: August 7, 2008
Though suing file-sharing sites has no effect on the proliferation of file sharing, the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America)- and its lawers- sure feel better about themselves for doing it. However, there is a section of the film world that isn’t yet positioned to take organized legal action. That’s right, the porn industry. Made [...]
Posted by: clickry on: August 6, 2008
Eva Mendes- Secret Obsession Banned CommercialUploaded by CelebriNet2 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6cbjr_eva-mendes-secret-obsession-banned_shortfilms New Calvin Klein It Girl Eva Mendes’ new titillating ad for Secret Obsession perfume is soooo racy that it’s been banned on TV! In the 30-second TV spot, Mendes caresses herself, rolls around in an unmade bed and flashes one of her nipples. She then whispers [...]
Posted by: clickry on: August 3, 2008
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Afghan and Indian officials removed a body from the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, after a bombing there on July 7. American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States [...]
Posted by: clickry on: July 30, 2008
GENEVA (Reuters) – Global trade talks collapsed on Tuesday after a clash over agriculture between the United States and emerging powers, including China, India and Indonesia.The breakdown came on the ninth day of marathon talks. The United States and India failed to find a compromise on measures intended to help poor countries protect their farmers [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 24, 2008
(Reuters) – Newly crowned “American Idol” David Cook, already topping the iTunes music download charts, said on Friday he hopes to put out a rock album that will “make the hair on your neck stand up.” Cook, 25, a Missouri guitarist who was tending bar before auditioning for the most watched show on U.S. television, [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 17, 2008
Comprehensive software monitors the internet for kiddie porn Senator Joe Biden, a democrat from Delaware, has a new plan for combating kiddie porn on the internet: implement a nationwide P2P monitoring system. It’s “pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation,” said Biden, because all [...]
Posted by: clickry on: May 3, 2008
The American economy lost 20,000 jobs in April, the fourth consecutive month of decline, in what many economists took as powerful evidence that the United States is almost certainly now ensnared in a recession. But the number of jobs reported lost by the Labor Department on Friday was significantly smaller than most analysts had predicted, [...]
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