Christie to Focus on Easing New Jersey Taxes and Business Regulations

It looks like the New Jersey voters have short memories when they elect a person who believes that unregulated business is in the best intertest of all citizens. I guess they want another Bush type regime where the rich get richer while the rest of the country goes to ruin.

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Fewer Reporters Are Covering Executions

Of all the consequences of shrinking newsrooms, one of the oddest is this: Fewer journalists are available to watch people die. But Michael Graczyk has witnessed more than 300 deaths, and many of those were people he had come to know.

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Iran Threatens to Back Out of a Deal on Nuclear Fuel

VIENNA — Iran opened two days of nuclear talks with the United States, Russia and France on Monday with veiled public threats that it could back away from an agreement to ship more than three-quarters of its stockpile of nuclear fuel out of the country, unless the West acceded  …

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Lead Poisoning Found in 121 Children in China

BEIJING (AP) -- Medical tests have shown at least 121 children living near a battery plant in eastern China are suffering from lead poisoning, the latest in a recent string of such cases that have affected hundreds.

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Ohio Plans to Try Again as Execution Goes Wrong

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City Seeks Ban on Smoking in Parks and Beaches - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

But soon the outdoors — or at least much of it — may no longer be an option. The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, announced on Monday that the Bloomberg administration would seek to ban smoking in city parks and beaches

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Some Parents Oppose Obama Speech to Students

HOUSTON — President Obama's plan to deliver a speech to public school students on Tuesday has set off a revolt among conservative parents, who have accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas and are asking school officials to excuse th …

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Iran Tries to Suppress Rape Allegations

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran's clerical leadership on Friday stepped up a campaign to silence opposition claims that protesters had been raped in prison, with prayer leaders in at least three major cities denouncing the accusations and their chief sponsor.

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Washington State Ferries' gull-killing plan has Edmonds roots

Federally sanctioned killing of gulls at state ferry facilities began a decade ago after an Edmonds terminal worker contracted an illness linked with exposure to bird feces.

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Hundreds Hurt in 11-Hour California Prison Riot

LOS ANGELES — Rioting inmates smashed and burned a large California prison on Saturday night and Sunday morning, injuring 250 prisoners and hospitalizing 55.

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Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security

WASHINGTON — The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence an …

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Iranian Official Acknowledges Torture of Protesters

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A top judiciary official acknowledged Saturday that some detainees arrested after post-election protests had been tortured in Iranian prisons, the first such acknowledgment by a senior Iranian official.

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C.I.A. Missile Strike May Have Killed Pakistans Taliban Leader, Officials Say

WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. missile strike in Pakistan's tribal areas on Wednesday may have killed Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the country's fearsome Taliban militia, American and Pakistani officials said Thursday.

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Large Hadron Collider Fizzles, Adding to the Mysteries of Life

This is what happens when you hire non-union scabs to do a job.

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Health Plan Opponents Make Voices Heard

In Austin on Saturday, a throng of protesters enveloped Representative Lloyd Doggett, Democrat of Texas, at a supermarket where he was trying to meet constituents. They carried signs that said "No Socialized Health Care" and chanted "Just say no!"

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Hate Engulfs Christian Minority in Pakistan

GOJRA, Pakistan — The blistered black walls of the Hameed family's bedroom tell of an unspeakable crime.

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Iranian Opposition Figures Brother in Detention

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The wife of the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi spoke out forcefully on Thursday against the recent publication of accusations against her imprisoned brother, saying the accusations were false and amounted to a new effort by Iran's …

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Illnesses Afflict Homes With a Criminal Past

WINCHESTER, Tenn. — The spacious home where the newly wed Rhonda and Jason Holt began their family in 2005 was plagued by mysterious illnesses.

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Mexico Posts Are Blitzed After Arrest in Drug War

MEXICO CITY — It took six months of intelligence work for the police to corner a man suspected of being one of western Mexico's top drug bosses. But retaliation came swiftly, as his lieutenants struck repeatedly in the two days after his arrest.

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Candidate Declares Iran May Face Disintegration

BEIRUT, Lebanon — In an implicit rebuke to Iran's ruling elite, a conservative presidential candidate warned Sunday that the political and social rifts opened by the disputed June 12 vote and subsequent crackdown could lead to the nation's "disintegration" if they were  …

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In Malaysia, English Ban Raises Fears for Future - NYTimes.com

The fact is that English is the international science, tech and internet language. If some countries choose to ignore the facts all they are doing is hurting their citizens.

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Health Co-op Offers Model for Overhaul

At Group Health, doctors are rewarded for consulting by telephone and secure e-mail, which allows for longer appointments. Patients are assigned a team of primary care practitioners who are responsible for their well-being.

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Attack in Pakistani Garrison City Raises Anxiety About Safety of Nuclear Labs and Staff

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide attack Thursday on a bus in Rawalpindi was the first that singled out workers of Pakistan's prized nuclear labs, military analysts and prominent national newspapers said, raising new questions about the government's ability to withstand incre …

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