Friday, June 22, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 22/06/2012





Bryson resigns as Commerce Secretary
US commerce secretary John BrysonCommerce Secretary John Bryson, already on medical leave, has formally resigned his post.



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Romney will ‘replace and supersede’ Obama’s immigration plan
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to supporters at the Holland State Park beach Tuesday, June 19, 2012. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press,Chris Clark )Mitt Romney will criticize President Obama's immigration plan on Thursday, saying that as president, he will "put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the President's temporary measure," according to excerpts of his speech.



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Explosives found at nuclear plant in Sweden
Nuclear Plant Scare: Explosives Found in SwedenCountry raises security levels for three plants, no detonator found.



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Obama, Lin, Manning, Beckam star in PSA against dating violence
New York Knicks Jeremy Lin chases a loose ball in TorontoPresident Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, baseball's Joe Torre, New York Knicks phenom Jeremy Lin, New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning and soccer celebrity David Beckham along with others star in a new White House-produced public service announcement condemning violence against women.



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Texas woman hit with $1.3 million-plus electric bill
We all dread opening an electric bill, especially when air-conditioning drives up costs and maxes out a family budget. But Kristin Harriger's recent electric bill was beyond shocking.

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Crews seek upper hand on raging Colorado wildfires
In this photo taken on Monday, June 18, 2012, and made available Wednesday by the Colorado National Guard, a helicopter drops a load of water above the High Park wildfire, about 15 miles west of Fort Collins, Colo. The fire already has destroyed at least 189 homes since it was sparked by lightning June 9. (AP Photo/Colorado National Guard , Jess Geffre)More people evacuated by a northern Colorado wildfire are set to return home Thursday, the second wave of evacuees allowed back in as many days as firefighters attempt to encircle the blaze that has burned over 100 square miles.



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Only June? Northeast hits upper 90s for 2nd day
Lucas Olivo, 6, of Cheverly, Md., opens his mouth wide while running through a wall of water at Yards Park in Washington, on Thursday, June 21, 2012. Heat index values are expected to exceed 100 degrees across the northeast Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Temperatures in the Northeast soared into the upper 90s Thursday for a second day as residents fled to pools and beaches, tourists reorganized their sightseeing itineraries and street vendors and store owners made a small fortune selling bottled water and other cold drinks.



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Ohio 'personhood' push faces hurdle
File - In this Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, people at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City cheer at a rally in opposition to the state Senate's passage of a bill that grants the rights of personhood to fertilized human eggs. An anti-abortion group in Ohio is facing a significant shortfall in the number of signatures needed to ask voters in the presidential battleground this fall whether they want to amend the state's constitution to declare that life begins when a human egg is fertilized. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)An anti-abortion group in Ohio is facing a significant shortfall in the number of signatures needed to ask voters in the presidential battleground this fall whether the state constitution should declare that life begins when a human egg is fertilized, throwing up another obstacle for the "personhood" movement.



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Rubio turns down Romney fundraiser to spend more time with his family
When it was first reported this week that Mitt Romney was hosting an exclusive retreat in Park City, Utah, this weekend with high dollar donors and a handful of possible running mates, one big name was missing from the list: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. The omission sparked a wave of speculation about whether Rubio's absence [...]

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U.S. unemployment remains stagnant
In this Monday, June 18, 2012 photo Trey Fortes, right, speaks with Jason Monteiro, of Hudson, Mass., left, during a job fair in Boston. The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dipped last week but not by enough to indicate hiring will pick up. Weekly applications for unemployment aid declined by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 387,000, the Labor Department said. That’s down from an upwardly revised 389,000. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits dipped last week but not by enough to signal a better month of hiring in June.



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High court throws out Southern Union's $18M fine
Energy Transfer Buys Southern Union: The Beauty Of Nat Gas MLPsThe Supreme Court has thrown out an $18 million penalty against a natural gas company convicted of violating an environmental law.



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Senate bill brings some big changes to farm policy
Briefly putting election-year politics aside, the Senate on Thursday moved toward strong approval of legislation assuring that farmers hit by bad times will be protected and that millions of others hurt by the bad economy won't go hungry.



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Obama TV ad targets women in key states
Aiming to shore up support among women voters in critical swing states, the Obama campaign is out with a positive TV ad highlighting the first bill President Obama signed into law – the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

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Meet marijuana's semi-famous superdonors
Travel guide Rick Steves speaks during a news conference announcing the filing of an initiative to legalize possession of marijuana in Washington state Wednesday, June 22, 2011, in Seattle. New Approach Washington, a coalition group including Steves, Seattle City Attorney Peter Holmes, former U.S. Attorney John McKay and the state ACLU chapter, is pushing an initiative to the Legislature that would regulate the recreational use of marijuana in a way similar to how the state regulates alcohol. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)As political causes go, legalizing pot isn’t as glitzy as re-electing Barack Obama. Sarah Jessica Parker and George Clooney are not on marijuana’s A-list.



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Syrian pilot defects to Jordan with plane
An MiG fighter jet in IndiaA Syrian fighter pilot on a training mission flew his MiG-21 warplane to Jordan on Thursday and asked for political asylum, the first defection of an air force pilot with his plane during the 15-month uprising against President Bashar Assad.



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