Archive for June 9th, 2009

Actors ratify 2-year Hollywood movie, TV contract (AP)

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Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg announces following the final count of ballots that the proposed two year contract for actors in motion pictures and television has passed at the SAG headquarters in Los Angeles on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)AP - Members of the Screen Actors Guild voted overwhelmingly to ratify a two-year contract covering movies and prime-time TV shows made by the major Hollywood studios, ending a yearlong debacle that included union leaders calling for a strike.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

Nearly three months after American International Group bonuses provoked an angry reaction in Congress, the Obama administration is ready to issue broad new principles on how to compensate top financial sector executives.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

AP - South Korea has informed the U.S. of up to 20 North Korean bank accounts suspected of being used for counterfeiting, money laundering and other illegal transactions, a news report said Wednesday.

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Fourteen dead as bomb destroys Pakistan hotel (AFP)

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Men search the crater where a truck bomb exploded at the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar June 10, 2009. Militants attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in the Pakistani city of Peshawar with guns and a truck bomb on Tuesday, killing five people including a U.N. worker, authorities said.  REUTERS/Adrees Latif   (PAKISTAN CONFLICT POLITICS)AFP - A huge suicide truck bomb ripped through a luxury hotel Tuesday killing 14 people and wounding 52 in Pakistan’s Peshawar city, capital of a northwest province plagued by Taliban violence.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

E! Online - Sandra Bullock is one lucky lady. In The Proposal, her new romantic comedy in which she plays a wretched book publisher who blackmails her assistant into marrying her, Bullock got to be very naked with Ryan Reynolds.

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Suspect: Recruiting center shootings justified (AP)

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Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad stands in a Little Rock, Ark., courtroom Friday, June 5, 2009, for his initial appearance with his new attorney. Muhammad is accused in the death of a military recruiter outside the Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)AP - A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn’t consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

South Korean activists hold a rally in Seoul denouncing North Korea's trial of the two US journalists. US leaders and family members urged North Korea to show mercy to two jailed American reporters, as Washington tried to separate their plight from efforts to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)Reuters - South Korea’s defense chief says North Korea’s military grandstanding that included last month’s nuclear test was linked to leader Kim Jong-il’s succession plans in the “inhumane” state, an official said on Wednesday.

Original post by Reuters and software by Elliott Back

CBS, Letterman close to deal for extension (AP)

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In this photo released by CBS, Sirius Satellite Radio host Howard Stern, left, gets back into his seat after attempting to dance as host David Letterman laughs, on the set of the 'Late Show with David Letterman,' Monday, June 8, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo)AP - David Letterman isn’t going anywhere soon.

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Abortion foes interested in buying Kansas clinic (AP)

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AP - The leader of an anti-abortion group says the organization is interested in buying the now-closed clinic of slain abortion provider George Tiller.

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AP - George Tiller’s slaying has accomplished what anti-abortion activists had tried to do for decades: The doors to his Kansas clinic will shut forever. The announcement Tuesday from Tiller’s family was a tainted victory for the nation’s anti-abortion movement. For years, it made Tiller the focus of protests, legislation and legal attacks.

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