Stream the Album Here Midlake’s latest album, The Courage of Others is out a week from today and this week, the album is streaming in it’s entirety over at NPR Music, as part of their Discover Songs: First Listen feature. The album, their fist since 2006’s The Trials of Van Occupanther features the Texas folk...
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WASHINGTON — The Senate has passed a bill aimed at boosting job growth by giving tax breaks to businesses that hire the unemployed. The jobs legislation would also extend highway and mass transit programs through the end of the year and pump $20 billion into them in time for the construction season. Economists say...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — At least 15 more suspects carrying foreign passports were linked Wednesday to an elaborate hit squad slaying of a Hamas commander that Dubai’s police chief claims was likely carried out by Israel’s Mossad secret service. The latest accusations by Dubai police raised the size of the alleged assassination team...
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A new company has developed software to help empower you to protect your children in the dangerous on line and wireless world. Jim Huffman, owns the Web Safety branch in the Lowcountry. He says, “Websafety is a company that produces software that detects and prevents strangers from approaching kids on their computers and cell...
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Three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations Wednesday in allowing a video of an autistic boy being abused to be posted online — a case that has been closely watched for its implications on Internet freedom. Judge Oscar Magi sentenced the three to a six-month suspended sentence and absolved them of defamation charges....
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LITTLETON, Colo. — A 32-year-old convicted felon opened fire outside Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colorado Tuesday afternoon, wounding two students before he was tackled by a math teacher as he reloaded, authorities said. Court records show the suspect, identified by Jefferson County authorities as Colorado resident Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood, has a rap sheet...
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Hawaiian newspaper is reporting today that former Patriots fullback and hard-nosed special teams star Mosi Tatupu has died. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports Tatupu, considered one of the greatest athletes in the history of Hawaii, was 54 when he died Tuesday. Tatupu suffered from high-blood pressure, the paper reports. A friend told the Star-Bulletin last...
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Two Internet search giants are being sued by the company that claims it owns the patents to search technology: Xerox. Google and Yahoo are named in Xerox’s complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Delaware (click for PDF), as operating products and services that infringe on two Xerox patents for organizing documents. The...
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“There’s obviously something Sufjan Stevens-y about Mighty Tiger: the voices raised in chorus, the ornate instrumentation, the bold fearlessness of taking masculine vocals up to the higher, soprano end of the scale. Some of their songs sound as though they could fit into the soundtrack of a Wes Anderson movie with no problem at...
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The new bloc would be an alternative to the Organisation of American States (OAS), the main forum for regional affairs in the past 50 years. Mexico is hosting a regional summit in the beach resort of Cancun. The OAS has been dogged by rifts between some Latin American members and the US over economic...
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