North Korean communist party conference is a rare event, raises succession questions. See story.
Top U.S. News Young voters’ passion cools in 2010. See story.
Top California News
California dairy cow manure methane digester as a source of biofuel reduces one kind of emission (methane), but produces smog (NOx). See story.
Top Global News
Authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran still mulling over death sentence for woman accused of adultery; stoning remains a possibility. See story.
Top U.S. News Arizona’s governor demands that the U.S. State Department removes a critical reference to Arizona’s recently passed illegal immigration law in a UN human rights report. See story.
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California’s massive high-speed rail project will test the state several ways. See story.
Top Global News Speculation mounts in Japan that new political leadership with revive the economy and prevent the yen from growing more valuable relative to other currencies. See story.
Top U.S. News With the economy growing at 1.6% in the second quarter, revised down from 2.4%, Fed Chair Bernanke pledges action to avoid deflation. See story.
Top California News Budgetless, Schwarzenegger plans six-day Asian trip anyway. See story.
Top Global News A wave of car bombings in seven Iraqi cities kill 45 as al Qaeda-linked insurgents try to undermine faith in the government as U.S. combat troops vacate the nation. See story.
Top U.S. News One of the U.S. Senate’s more liberal Republicans, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, is trailing Gulf War veteran and political newcomer, Joe Miller, for the Republican nomination. See story.
Top California News California sees gains in the high school exit exam, especially among minority students—looks like 1998’s Prop. 227 English for the Children Initiative that dismantled most of California’s bilingual education system has worked as advertised. See story.
Top Global News Noodles, cigarettes, and amphetamines fuel Chinese truckers stuck in ongoing 10-day traffic jam, history’s worst. Why take the jammed highway? No government coal checkpoints, hence no bribes to pay to corrupt communist officials. See story.
Top U.S. News Home sales plunge 27% as fallout continues from the expiration of market-distorting, temporary federal tax credits. See story.
Top California News California to delay $2.9 billion in payments to school districts and county governments one month sooner than anticipated to preserve cash with the budget 55 days late. See story
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In increasingly authoritarian Russia, police detain 100 political opposition leaders for marching in honor of the nation’s post-Communist tricolor flag. See story.
Top U.S. News Rod Blagojevich says federal prosecutors offered him a deal to testify against “higher ups”—i.e., the people in the Obama administration, perhaps the President himself. See story.
Top California News
L.A.’s school district, with a 50% dropout rate, builds a half-billion dollar plus school with a $50 million (?) spiral doohickey to nowhere. See story.
