MSNBC:
Descendants of 14 bison shipped to Santa Catalina Island in 1924 to make a Western movie have multiplied so much that a conservation group is about to give females birth control injections.
Santa Catalina Island California - Santa Catalina Island - California - Channel Island - United States. (Read More)
Drudge Report:
A week after admitting to running old crowd footage that exaggerated the size of a health reform bill protest, Fox News ran old footage in a report on crowds greeting Sarah Palin on her book tour. The network again claimed a "production error," but critics are asking whether the news organization is intentionally manipulati (Read More)
The Guardian:
Times and Sun publisher says database of 20 million people enables it to assess which are the most valuable customersA third of the UK population - around 20 million people - have a direct relationship with News International thanks to the publishers' customer database, a senior executive revealed today.Katie Vanneck-Smith, (Read More)
The Guardian:
Financial crisis beckons as public spending cuts loom and universities face intense competition from overseasUniversities are facing a new funding crisis with looming public spending cuts and intense competition from overseas, according to the man employed by the government to allocate money to higher education in England.S (Read More)
The Guardian:
On today's WashPost op-ed pages, Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who worked in the Justice Department under GWB, defend Eric Holder's decision and say that in fact it's military tribunals that don't work that well:In deciding to use federal court, the attorney general probably considered the record of the military commission (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Swelling population 'risks demographic disaster'• Cynicism and disaffection among disturbing findingsPakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical about democracy, has greatest faith in the military and is resentful of western interference, accordi (Read More)
The Guardian:
• US confectioner has moved thousands of jobs to Mexico in three-year restructuring• Company's intentions towards Cadbury, a potential bid target, remain unclearIt calls itself the sweetest place in America. But the home town of Hershey's, the chocolate maker, has a lingering hint of bitterness in the air after cost-cutting (Read More)
The Guardian:
Investment bank under fire again as investors protest at record bonuses of $717,000 eachGoldman Sachs has had to defend itself from angry taxpayers, regulators, the government – and now its own shareholders.Some of the US investment bank's largest investors are furious about the New York-based firm paying record bonuses to (Read More)
The Guardian:
Christina Ambers claims she is being mistreated by residents and workers after her marriage to porterA New York City foot and hand model claims her marriage to a footman in her ritzy apartment block has trod on building workers' and residents' class sensibilities. Christina Ambers, dubbed the Heidi Klum of foot models, in J (Read More)
The Guardian:
I'm taking next week off, mostly. I plan on posting a reaction to the Saturday night Senate vote - will I be borrowing my headline from the Nixon era or the Bay City Rollers? We shall see, we shall see. I'll be flying to California Monday, where I'll be Thanksgiving-ing in the lovely East Bay. I'll try to post an item or tw (Read More)
The Guardian:
Michael Tomasky looks at the Fox News Channel footage mix-ups and urges viewers to be 'open-minded' about the mistakeMichael Tomasky. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Ineluctably, a worm is turning deep inside President Barack Obama's policy of constructive engagement. Mr Obama needs something, somewhere to go right. He has filled audiences in Berlin and Cairo with hope. He has deployed his rich family history to shine a beam on all manner of problems. But there comes a point where visio (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The US chocolate company Hershey is considering an audacious go-it-alone attempt to buy the besieged Cadbury confectionery empire through a takeover offer of at least $17bn (£10.2bn) to edge out Kraft's £9.8bn hostile bid.Sources close to the situation last night said that Hershey has lined up deal financing from Bank of Am (Read More)