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What We've Found
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
"Racial animus" and "racially-coded comments" were behind the decision of administrators at a Montgomery County swimming pool to revoke permission for 56 children from a Northeast Philadelphia day camp to use the facility, according to a just-released report by investigators with Pennsylvania's Human Relations Committee.
German politicians from immigrant backgrounds received letters that outlined a five-point plan for "moving foreigners gradually back to their home countries" from Germany's far-right National Democratic Party. The letters were signed by a non-existent "commissioner for the repatriation of foreigners," but the right-wing leader Joerg Haehnel defended the letters as permissible under Germany's democracy.
Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was trapped inside the Brazilian embassy in Honduras along with 70 friends and relatives. Crowds of Hondurans cheered outside to celebrate his return until Interim President Roberto Micheletti sent baton-and-tear-gas-wielding soldiers to clear them away.
After being denied permission to camp in Central Park while visiting the United Nations, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi instead settled on the Bedford, NY, estate of Donald Trump, where he has plenty of room for a tent containing four satellite dishes and lavish Persian decor.
Promising to "share with you candidly a view right from Main Street, Main Street U.S.A.," former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin addressed an annual conference of investors in Hong Kong in what was billed as a wide-ranging talk about governance, economics and U.S. and Asian affairs.
Police were looking for the "very sick" person who body-wrapped a cat in duct tape and left her abandoned in a North Philadelphia yard. The adult female cat, nicknamed "Sticky" by workers who removed the tape at the Philadelphia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is now in stable condition.
My comments: 1.Racist kids equal sweaty, smelly kids. 2.Gadhafi camping in central park would have been hilarious, luckily for him the Don has digs for days. 3.Ummm,since when is Sarah Palin an expert on economics or Asian American relations (Oh wait you can see Russia from Alaska, thats right.) also Sarah where exactly is Main Street,Main Street USA? Can I google map that? 4. Sticky? Really? Thanks for saving the cat, but thats just messed up.
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Described by the president of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance as "the fight for our lives," patrons of the arts protested a 6 percent sales tax on tickets to concerts, live theater, performing arts, zoos and museums, and assured Gov. Rendell that he'd hear from them in fax-machine-clogging numbers.
Musicians were warring over whether or not to crack down on illegal file-sharers in the wake of news that forty billion music files, or 95 percent of all digital music, was downloaded illegally in 2008.
The head of the Federal Communications Commission endorsed a plan to uphold "net neutrality" -- the state in which no Internet content provider can manipulate how quickly or easily a user sees their web site. The commission, he said, "must be a smart cop on the beat, preserving a free and open Internet."
Wealthy Americans with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and other offshore sites were given an extra 22 days to reveal their accounts and thus escape the stiffer penalties that will be incurred if their accounts are discovered by IRS investigators after the end of the amnesty period.
Scientists found that an increased inability to manage money, including new difficulties understanding a bank statement, balancing a cheque book, paying bills, preparing bills and counting coins and currency, can be signs of impending dementia in persons already afflicted with mild cognitive impairment.
The Philadelphia School District was deciding which district programs to reduce or cut in the wake of the state budget deal reached last week, which gives schools $160 million less than originally agreed.
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Taiwanese ex-president Chen Shui-Bian and his wife, Wu Shu-Chen, were sentenced to life in prison on mulitple counts of corruption, including embezzling $3.15 million during his 2000-2008 presidency and receiving bribes worth at least $9 million.
Pennsylvania providers of foster care, mental-health treatment and other human services sued Gov. Rendell for axing their paychecks from last fiscal year when the governor vetoed $12.9 billion in items on the "bridge budget" he signed in August.
Economic recovery efforts, including the $787 billion stimulus plan that Obama authorized in February, have so far created or saved 1 million jobs, according to a report issued by White House economists. But the report also indicated that over 3 million jobs have been lost since February, though the rate of job loss is slowing.
On pain of tougher local pollution limits and withheld federal funding, the administration ordered Pennsylvania and five other states to begin cleaning up Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, whose waters are tainted with sewage and fertilizer runoff from large farms and onshore development.
Members of the D.C. Council were ready to introduce a bill that would legalize gay marriage in the district by changing the law to say that "any person who otherwise meets the eligibility requirements . . . may marry any other eligible person regardless of gender."
A 15-year-old bill that would legally codify Islamic marriages in South Africa, and thus protect Muslim women from being left penniless after a divorce, was gaining momentum among the Muslim community where it has been controversial for many years.
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
The legal fate of the Black Panthers who stood outside a North Philadelphia polling place last November 5 wearing uniforms, black jackets, combat boots and berets was once again uncertain as the Justice Department re-examined its decision to drop allegations of voter intimidation against them.
As an Afghan election commission recounted votes in the recent presidential election and appeared to confirm the original outcome, in which incumbent Hamid Karzai won by a small margin, his main challenger accused the commission of being corrupt.
Casinos and lotteries reported losses for the first time, leading industry experts to speculate that the market has become saturated from states building too many new gambling facilities across the country to raise revenues.
Scientists found that chronic wasting disease, a fatal brain illness that has spread mysteriously quickly through elk, deer and moose in the West and Midwest, is spread through infected animals' feces long before they manifest the illness.
More than one thousand experts on headache treatment and research arrived in Philadelphia for the International Headache Congress, a convention that will last the next four days.
Young Mongolian hip hop artists were using the medium to call out political corruption, promote nationalism and explore the history of their country, where hip hop music has attracted a large following in recent years. "Some say hip-hop comes from Africa. But I think it also comes from the way the shamans used to chant in the Genghis Khan period," said the creator of the country's first techno rap band.
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Mayor Nutter prepared to launch the first stages of his "Plan C" contingency budget, which would close every Philadelphia library and rec center and eliminate 3,000 city jobs, as the Pennsylvania State Legislature continued to seek compromise over a budget plan that would raise sales tax 1 percent and briefly stall pension payments.
The U.S. government will probably not recover all of the $74 billion it invested in the auto industry to save GM and Chrysler from bankruptcy, according to a new congressional oversight report. Yet in preserving the 6.5 percent of manufacturing jobs represented by the industry, the investment "might have resulted in savings for the government in other ways."
NASA is too broke to return to the moon without an annual budget increase of at least $3 billion, according to a White House panel of independent space experts.
Russia's foreign minister denied rumors that a Russian-crewed freighter was bearing S-300 missiles destined for Iran when it was hijacked by pirates in the Baltic Sea over the summer.
A malarial parasite thought to only infect monkeys was found to be widespread in Malaysian humans. The form of malaria is deadly if not treated quickly, and can reproduce more quickly than its more popularly contracted relatives.
Called a "Jekyll-Hyde" figure by his judge, a 66-year-old Philadelphia doctor was sentenced to five years in federal prison for illegally providing his patients with oft-abused drugs such as Percocet, OxyContin and Xanax in exchange for money and oral sex while his wife lay dying from diabetes.
Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Over 40 elephants have died in Kenya over the past two months in what the government originally thought might be an anthrax attack, but was instead found to be malnutrition: a result of the worst drought the country has faced in a decade.
In a sharp departure from his predecessor's energy policy, Japan's incoming premier pledged that by 2020 the country will emit 25 percent less carbon than it did in 1990.
President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones resigned amid furor over a petition he signed in 2004 calling for an investigation into whether the government allowed the 9-11 attacks. A new "auto czar," who will oversee manufacturing policy, was appointed in his stead.
Conservatives feared that a virulent partisan agenda was embedded in Obama's first-day-of-school speech to students, which urged kids to stay in school so they'd be able to perform meaningful jobs.
Out of the 5,000 workplace fatalities in 2008, workers in finance and insurance had the highest survival rate and fishermen had the lowest, an annual Department of Labor Report revealed.
Philadelphia union members, angry about a budget proposal that would stall payments into the municipal pension plan, booed Mayor Michael Nutter as he spoke at the Sheet Metal Workers union hall before the annual Labor Day parade.
A species of rat weighing 3.3 lbs and measuring 82 centimeters from snout to tail was discovered in the crater of an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea by researchers from the BBC Natural History Unit.
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