Eviction of garden protesters stirs Los Angeles action
Deputy sheriffs removed activists from an urban garden in Los Angeles to clear space for a warehouse. Actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed trees or chained to barrels, with more than 40 arrests as deputies used a fire truck to lower them. The 14 acre site, home to about 350 growers, faced eviction after a judge signed the order last month.
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Power restored at U S mission in Cuba after harassment claims
U S Interests Section Chief Michael Parmly announced power to the U S mission in Havana was restored mid morning after a weeklong outage that Washington said Cuba caused by deliberately cutting power. Havana denied the charges calling them lies and attributed the outage to a neighborhood grid problem.
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Bush plan to probe states over excluded student scores
The Bush administration announced a review to determine why states exclude large numbers of students in reporting No Child Left Behind scores. Deputy Education Secretary Ray Simon said states will be summoned to a fall conference to discuss when omissions are justified and when they become loopholes that hide underperforming groups.
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Hawking urges space colonization to save humanity
Stephen Hawking warned that Earth faces increasing disaster risk and urged humanity to establish a lunar base within 20 years and a Mars colony in 40, saying life beyond Earth is essential for the species’ survival. He spoke in Hong Kong after a rock-star welcome, noting ALS and his theory on black holes and the universe.
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