Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) — Gunshots rattled a peaceful, packed Florida State University library early Thursday, with three people getting hurt as hundreds of students huddled between bookshelves before police encountered and killed the gunman outside. Continue reading Gunman reported at Florida State University campus
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7 dead as winter weather pummels country with freezing or below temperatures in all 50 states, snow buries upstate New York
Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed the National Guard to clear roads as some upstate New York motorists were trapped up to 24 hours after several feet of snow paralyzed certain regions. Winter hit much of the nation a little early, feeling much more like January than November, according to the National Weather Service. Continue reading 7 dead as winter weather pummels country with freezing or below temperatures in all 50 states, snow buries upstate New York
Honduran beauty queen found dead
(CNN) — A Honduran beauty queen who went missing just days before she was set to head off to participate in the Miss World pageant has been found dead, along with her sister, a patrolman from the Honduras National Criminal Investigations Office told CNN. Continue reading Honduran beauty queen found dead
Modi: The man of the millennium?
New Delhi (CNN) — Let’s hear it for “the man of the moment, the man of the millennium.”
That man is Narendra Modi, and those are the words with which an Australian public servant introduced India’s Prime Minister in Brisbane on Sunday.
“Modi, Modi, Modi,” chanted the crowd. Continue reading Modi: The man of the millennium?
Obama Executive Action To Protect 5 Million From Being Deported
President Obama plans to use executive actions in order to overhaul the nation’s immigration enforcement policies. Republicans said he is cutting them out of the policy change and will work to oppose it. Continue reading Obama Executive Action To Protect 5 Million From Being Deported
Obama Outlines Immediate Goals For Congress, Including Force Against ISIS
President Barack Obama spoke about the midterm elections Wednesday, telling every American — including those who didn’t vote — “I hear you.” Continue reading Obama Outlines Immediate Goals For Congress, Including Force Against ISIS
Wonthaggi rapture cloud has Twitter people all in a twitter
It looks like a passage into another dimension, or an alien space ship hovering just out of vision. And the people of Twitter want answers.
On Monday, images of a bizarre cloud hovering over Wonthaggi, a seaside town 132 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, saturated social media as puzzled users sought answers.
Continue reading Wonthaggi rapture cloud has Twitter people all in a twitter
The future of public services in the 21st century
The realities of further fiscal consolidation present us with an opportunity to fundamentally re-shape public service provision.
In the words of Beth Simone Noveck, former aide to Barack Obama: “What business do you know, what other sector of the economy, and especially one as big as the public sector, that doesn’t seek to reinvent its business model on a regular basis?”
Continue reading The future of public services in the 21st century
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes in New Setback for Commercial Spaceflight
SpaceShipTwo, a rocket plane that was meant to carry well-heeled tourists on short if expensive rides to space, crashed in the Mojave Desert on Friday during a test flight, killing one of the two pilots.
Continue reading Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes in New Setback for Commercial Spaceflight
Robert Fisk on Isis: Propaganda war of Islamic extremists is being waged on Facebook and internet message boards, not mosques
Isis has turned the internet into the most effective propaganda tool ever.
Ever since the Pentagon started talking about Isis as apocalyptic, I’ve suspected that websites and blogs and YouTube are taking over from reality. I’m even wondering whether “Isis” – or Islamic State or Isil, here we go again – isn’t more real on the internet than it is on the ground. Not, of course, for the Kurds of Kobani or the Yazidis or the beheaded victims of this weird caliphate. But isn’t it time we woke up to the fact that internet addiction in politics and war is even more dangerous than hard drugs? Continue reading Robert Fisk on Isis: Propaganda war of Islamic extremists is being waged on Facebook and internet message boards, not mosques
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