House approves surveillance drones and border staff increase
The House passed a 600 million dollar bill to fund unmanned surveillance drones and about 1500 more border agents, aiming to tighten border security amid partisan disagreement over broader immigration reform. Also notes Rep. Charles Rangel denouncing resignation amid ethics charges. The report includes MRSA decline data and Majdanek fire damage with museum reactions.
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Congress
Senate
Barack Obama
Charles Rangel
Ethics Committee
Rangel
New York Democrat
Ex Alaska Senator Stevens among dead in Alaska plane crash
Former Alaska senator Ted Stevens and four others died when a float plane crashed on a remote Alaska mountainside. Ex NASA chief Sean O Keefe survived with injuries, while his son also survived. Rescue teams reached the crash site after night weather hampered authorities.
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Alaska
Ted Stevens
NASA
Sean O’keefe
O’keefe
Glenn Mahone
Stevens
Senate
Lisa Murkowski
United States Senate
Ted Stevens remembered as Alaska political patriarch
Alaska’s longtime senator Ted Stevens, known for delivering federal dollars and his outsized place in state history, is remembered as Uncle Ted by constituents and as a feisty defender of Alaska. The report also notes a fatal plane crash near Dillingham involving a GCI aircraft and recalls Stevens’ long Senate tenure since 1968.
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Ted Stevens
Ted
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Dillingham
Bristol Bay
Fergus
General Communications Inc
Federal Aviation Administration
Mike Fergus
Lake
Aleknagik
GCI
Nerka
Stevens
Senate
JetBlue attendant suspended after on-board outburst and slide exit
JetBlue suspended Steven Slater after he allegedly cursed a passenger over loudspeakers, grabbed beer from the galley, and deployed the emergency slide to exit a Pittsburgh to Kennedy flight. Slater, arraigned on criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and trespassing, faces bail set at 2500 dollars as police review differing accounts of the incident.
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New York
Grater
Steven Slater
Queens
Slater
JetBlue Airways
Pittsburgh
Kennedy Airport
Howard Turman
Civilian deaths rise as Taliban tactics blamed in Afghanistan
United Nations reports 1271 Afghans killed and 1997 injured in the first six months, a 31 percent rise blamed on Taliban bombings and assassinations. The UN notes civilians bear the brunt as NATO restrains heavy force while urging prosecutions for war crimes.
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