News: Times Square bombing arrests...Government wants funds to fight oil spill claims...Lybia air crash survivor photo...Elana Kagan "gay question" controversy
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 09:33AM Federal authorities on Thursday raided several locations in the Northeast and took two people into custody as part of an investigation into the failed Times Square car bombing, which Obama administration officials have said was aided and directed by the Pakistani Taliban, according to F.B.I. officials in Boston and a Justice Department spokesman in Washington.
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WASHINGTON—The White House is asking Congress for $10 million so the government can fight any claims related to the Gulf oil disaster that is spewing thousands of gallons of crude off the coast of Louisiana.
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Computerworld - Facebook execs have called for an all-company meeting today to discuss widespread criticism of the social network's privacy policies.
In an e-mail to Computerworld this morning, a Facebook spokesman confirmed that the company will hold a meeting later today to discuss privacy issues, but would not say whether executives are looking to make significant changes to to the popular site's highly contentious privacy policies.
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9 Year-old Ruben van Assouw is seen in his hospital bed in Tripoli's El Khadra hospital, Libya Thusday, May 13, 2010. Ruben is the only survivor of a Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board that crashed on landing Wednesday, May 12 at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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When Elena Kagan goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee this summer, she'll be asked dozens of questions by probing senators eager to understand the influence her education, career path, family life and personal views would have on her judicial philosophy.
What she almost certainly won't be asked, based on decades of precedent and confirmation hearings, are questions about her sexuality. But that hasn't stopped a mixed cast of gay and conservative bloggers from doing it instead, sparking a boisterous debate about a nominee's personal life never seen before.
