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from Fox News
Teacher Punished for Telling Students About Constitutional Rights
By Todd Starnes
Armed Federal Agents Patrol Tea Party Rallies
Judge Napolitano questions why DHS is showing up armed to Tea Party demonstrations against the IRS.
Judge Napolitano questions why DHS is showing up armed to Tea Party demonstrations against the IRS.
Arizona woman facing drug charge freed from Mexico prison, family spokesman says
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Carl Sagan, Marijuana Advocate, Explains What It's Like To Be High While Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan, a titan of scientific study and communication, died in 1996, leaving behind an expansive legacy of research and education. He assumed a diverse set of roles throughout his life, including as a longtime casual user of and advocate for marijuana.
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from The Jerusalem Post
Russia to provide Syria with MiG-29 fighter planes
By JPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS
Birthright-style program proposed for non-Jews
By SAM SOKOL
Asteroid zipping past Earth with moon in tow
1998 QE2 coming within 3.6 million miles of Earth, scientists say
By Ben Brumfield CNN
from KHQ Local News
HAPPENING TODAY: Big Asteroid Flyby!
Huge Asteroid Makes Its Closest Pass To Earth Today
by Bill Chappell
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from Huffington Post
Carl Sagan, Marijuana Advocate, Explains What It's Like To Be High While Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan, a titan of scientific study and communication, died in 1996, leaving behind an expansive legacy of research and education. He assumed a diverse set of roles throughout his life, including as a longtime casual user of and advocate for marijuana.
from The Jerusalem Post
Russia to provide Syria with MiG-29 fighter planes
By JPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS
Contradicting reports on time of delivery for anti-aircraft missiles; source tells Russian news agency missiles unlikely to be delivered before fall of 2013, while two Russian papers report missile shipment in 2014.
Analysis: Air strikes against the S-300? Not so fast
By YAAKOV LAPPIN
US, Germany to Russia: Don't hurt Syria peace efforts
By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF
Secretary of State John Kerry meets with German counterpart Guido Westerwelle, says Russian plans to send air defense system to Assad puts Israel's security at risk.Analysis: Air strikes against the S-300? Not so fast
By YAAKOV LAPPIN
It's unclear what, if anything has arrived in Syria from Russia.
US, Germany to Russia: Don't hurt Syria peace efforts
By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF
Palestinians, US upset by east Jerusalem building
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEH
By TOVAH LAZAROFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Erekat accuses Israel of sabotaging peace efforts, while J'lem denies new approvals were issued for construction projects.
By SAM SOKOL
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from KXLY 4 News
Asteroid zipping past Earth with moon in tow
1998 QE2 coming within 3.6 million miles of Earth, scientists say
By Ben Brumfield CNN
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from NPR
Huge Asteroid Makes Its Closest Pass To Earth Today
by Bill Chappell
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from POLITICO
Rising economy shifts 2014 election landscape
By BEN WHITE
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from The Spokesman-Review
Veterans upset by arena’s renaming
Venue temporarily redubbed for Bon Jovi
Kaitlin Gillespie, Jennifer Pignolet The Spokesman-Review
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Associated Press
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Tornadoes leave at least nine hurt
Sean Murphy Associated Press
More heavy storms on tap for the Midwest; 1 dead
Associated Press
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Eurozone unemployment heading for 20 million
Associated Press
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Initiative seeks to fill gaps in Idaho’s online coverage
Associated Press
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Ricin-laced letters from Spokane sent to Obama, CIA and Fairchild
Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review
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Japan halts imports after modified wheat found
Move could have severe effect on Northwest farmers
Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press
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Officials, mum on cop, let felon off
Arresting officer in firearm case on unexplained leave
Thomas Clouse The Spokesman-Review
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Outspoken priest, author Greeley dies
Don Babwin Associated Press
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Average families far from regaining recession losses
Christopher S. Rugaber Associated Press
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Phoenix – A campaign to force a recall election against the polarizing sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix failed on Thursday after recall organizers said they couldn’t collect enough voter signatures to bring the lawman to the ballot again.
Critics of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio had argued that the 80-year-old sheriff should be booted because his office has failed to adequately investigate more than 400 sex-crimes cases, has cost the county $25 million in legal settlements over treatment in county jails and his office was found by a federal judge to have systematically racially profiled Latinos in his signature immigration patrols.
Mass abduction reported in Mexico City
Mexico City – Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City’s Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs, anguished relatives said Thursday.
The apparent mass abduction purportedly happened sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday morning just off the Paseo de la Reforma, the city’s main boulevard, near the Angel of Independence monument and only about 11/2 blocks from the U.S. Embassy.
The incident was the second recent high-publicity blemish for the city’s largely unregulated entertainment scene, coming 20 days after the grandson of American civil rights activist Malcolm X was beaten to death at another tough bar in the downtown area.
Calling for authorities to find their loved ones, family members marched Thursday from the Interior Department building to the Zocalo, the city’s main square.
Any pact needs popular vote, Assad says
Beirut – Any agreement reached at prospective peace talks on Syria would have to be approved by the Syrian people in a nationwide referendum, President Bashar Assad said in a television interview aired Thursday.
A confident Assad said his government would participate in the peace conference, sponsored by the United States and Russia, and would negotiate directly with the opposition absent any preconditions, but he insisted that any agreement would have to be put to the ballot.
“Either side can propose anything, but nothing can be implemented without the approval of the Syrian people,” Assad said, according to the official Syrian transcript of the interview.
An agreement reached last year in Geneva, which forms the basis of the projected new talks, called for negotiations leading to the formation of a transitional government accepted by both sides in the conflict. But Assad said such an administration, which would sideline the president, also would have to pass in a popular referendum.
Left unanswered was how a referendum could be held in war-ravaged Syria, where large parts of the country remain contested or under rebel control.
Nigeria lawmakers pass gay marriage ban
Abuja, Nigeria – Nigeria’s House of Representatives voted Thursday to ban gay marriage and outlaw any groups actively supporting gay rights, endorsing a measure that also calls for 10-year prison sentences for any “public show” of affection by a same-sex couple.
Representatives approved the proposal in a voice vote, sending it immediately to President Goodluck Jonathan. It wasn’t immediately clear if Jonathan would sign the measure, though gays and lesbians already face public ridicule and possible prison sentences in Nigeria.
While Western diplomats declined to immediately comment, the United Kingdom already has threatened to stop aid to nations that discriminate against gays. But those threats appear unlikely to assuage the desire of Nigerian authorities to further criminalize homosexuality, part of a wave of such laws in African nations eager to legislate against what they believe is a challenge of their traditional values by the West.
Under the proposed law, Nigeria would ban any same-sex marriage from being conducted in either a church or a mosque. Gay or lesbian couples who marry could face up to 14 years each in prison. Witnesses or anyone who helps couples marry could be sentenced to 10 years behind bars. Anyone taking part in a group advocating for gay rights or anyone caught in a “public show” of affection also would face 10 years in prison.
House OKs change in estate tax law
OLYMPIA – Over objections that the Legislature was unconstitutionally reaching into the past to collect taxes, the House passed a change to the estate tax law that attempts to erase a loss in court.
House Bill 2064 passed on a 51-40 vote after Democrats described it as a technical fix to close a loophole the Supreme Court opened in tax law, and necessary to pay for schools. The estate tax is deposited in the school trust fund.
Republicans argued that rewriting the law to fix the problem the Supreme Court found, and applying it retroactively, was unconstitutional. The bill goes to the Senate, which will hold a hearing on a different bill on the same topic today.
OLYMPIA –The state Department of Transportation shouldn’t let trucks with oversized loads on routes where the bridges are too small, state Sen. Mike Baumgartner said Thursday.
The Spokane Republican introduced a bill that would require the department to better label the height of state bridges, and refuse to issue permits to truckers whose oversized loads aren’t going to fit through bridges that are too low or too narrow. It’s a response to the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River, which fell after being struck by an oversized load.
This wasn’t the first time the Skagit River Bridge was struck by an oversized load, Baumgartner said. The solution to the problem is not more gasoline taxes to fix bridges, he added, but better oversight.
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Mammoth found with liquid blood
Scientists may clone long-dead creature
Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press
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Homeless aid revamp apparently paying off
Shawn Vestal The Spokesman-Review
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Boy Scout policy change on homosexuality weighs heavily on Kootenai sheriff
Scott Maben The Spokesman-Review
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Idaho scrimps on state employee pay
Betsy Z. Russell The Spokesman-Review
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Dishman Hills trailhead opening planned
Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review
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SNAP housing will go smoke-free
Change for area’s 300 units due to take effect Aug. 1
Kip Hill The Spokesman-Review
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Prepaid tuition program price likely to increase
Donna Gordon Blankinship Associated Press
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Growth may be easing
GDP will rise 2.2 percent in 2013, economist says
Martin Crutsinger Associated Press
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Home contracts at 3-year high, spurring sales optimism
Purchases rise in April of both old, new houses
Christopher S. Rugaber Associated Press
Alex Veiga Associated Press
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Seekers of jobless benefits up 10,000
But labor market trend is improving overall
Christopher S. Rugaber Associated Press
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Makers try to spark electric vehicle sales
Cheap leases among enticements meant to plug in more buyers
Tom Krisher Associated Press
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opinion:
Amy Goodman
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