Roundup of Foreign Aid Vote and UN Palestine Bid
Senate Appropriations Committee approves a 53 billion dollar foreign aid bill and warns of action if Palestine pursues unilateral UN statehood. Abbas weighs UN bid as US and France push negotiations, with a US veto anticipated in the Security Council. The episode unfolds amid UN meetings in New York.
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Palestine Liberation Organization
United States
Israel
United Nations
Palestine
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Appropriations Committee
France
Mahmoud Abbas
New York
Abbas
U.N. Security Council
State Department
Obama
U.N
White supremacist Brewer executed in Byrd dragging death case
Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed by lethal injection for the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper Texas. John William King remains on death row and Shawn Berry received a life sentence as part of the same hate crime case.
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Huntsville
Texas
James Byrd Jr
Lawrence Russell Brewer
Brewer
John William King
Byrd
King
Shawn Berry
Clara Taylor
Angel Food Ministries closes after 17 years in operation
The Atlanta based nonprofit Angel Food Ministries will cease operations immediately after 17 years. Once serving 500000 families monthly across 35 states the group cited the economic downturn and rising fuel and food costs. The Wingos and staff faced FBI scrutiny and a 2009 lawsuit but no charges were filed.
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Atlanta
Angel Food Ministries
Associated Press
Angel Food
God
Joe
Linda Wingo
Monroe
FBI
Wingos
Steve Savage
Savage
DEET Confuses Insects, Study Says
A Nature online study by Leslie Vosshall and colleagues at Rockefeller Univ shows DEET scrambles fruit fly odor signals, supporting the confusion theory of how DEET works. A mutation in one fly strain makes it DEET insensitive and disrupts odor sensing, though experts caution no single paper settles the debate.
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New York
Nature
Leslie Vosshall
Rockefeller University
Col
Vosshall
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