Australia’s Qantas Friday launched the nation’s first commercial flight using a mixture of refined cooking oil, saying it would not survive if it relied solely on traditional jet fuel.
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Australia’s Qantas makes first commercial biofuel flight
AP – A defiant President Barack Obama, tired of GOP stalling his nominee to lead a new consumer protection agency, bucked that opposition and put him in charge without Senate approval.
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Obama bypasses Senate, installs new consumer chief
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The Christian Science Monitor – The unseasonably strong Santa Ana winds that have pounded southern California during the past two days have left hundreds of thousands of residents without power, not to mention closed schools and businesses. Many counties are on emergency footing and even Griffith Park,
Read More...The Christian Science Monitor – Senior citizens now represent a larger share of the US population than they have at any point in the nation’s history, and with the first baby boomers hitting 65 this year, the trend is likely only to accelerate in the years ahead.
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Census finds 1 in 8 Americans are seniors â an all-time high
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AP – Occupy Wall Street supporters who staged rallies that shut down the nation’s fifth-busiest port during a day of protests condemned on Thursday the demonstrators who clashed with police in the latest flare-up of violence in Oakland, Calif.
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Occupy protesters disavow Oakland violence
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AP – Norway began burying the dead on Friday, a week after an anti-Muslim extremist killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage. Mourners of all ages vowed they would not let the massacre threaten their nation’s openness and democracy.
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A week later, Norway mourns 77 victims of massacre (AP)
Reuters – A suspected right-wing fanatic accused of killing at least 92 people deemed his acts “atrocious” yet “necessary” as Norway mourned victims of the nation’s worst attacks since World War Two.
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Norway suspect deems killings atrocious but needed (Reuters)
AP – Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army’s flagship hospital where privates to presidents have gone for care, is closing its doors after more than a century.
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Walter Reed to close after more than a century (AP)
AP – A 10-mile stretch of one of the nation’s busiest freeways has turned into a virtual ghost road.
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‘Carmageddon’: Los Angeles freeway shuts down (AP)
AP – As the White House presses Congress “not to play chicken” with a vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, President Barack Obama says his vote as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt cap was a mistake motivated by politics.
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Obama: Senate vote against debt ceiling a mistake (AP)