Daily Archives: April 18, 2012

Google CEO Larry Page Grilled in Oracle Copyright Trial

Google CEO Larry Page spent nearly an hour in a federal courtroom Wednesday deflecting questions about his role in a copyright dispute over some of the technology in his company’s Android software for smartphones.

Pictured: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison arrives for a court appearance at a federal building in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 17, 2012.

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Ted Nugent to Meet with Secret Service Over Anti-Obama Remarks

4798Rocker and gun rights champion Ted Nugent says he will meet with the Secret Service on Thursday to explain his raucous remarks about what he called Barack Obama’s “evil, America-hating administration” – comments some critics interpreted as a threat against the president.

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More Teenagers Turn Away from Driving

4798Young Americans are eschewing cars for alternative transport, leaving carmakers to wonder if this is a recession-induced trend or a permanent shift in habits.

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Israel Remembers Victims of the Holocaust

4798A visitor looks at pictures of Holocaust victims at Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem Wednesday. Starting Wednesday evening, Israel marks the annual memorial day commemorating the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust during World War II.

Source: Charisma News

J. Lee Grady on the Trayvon Martin Tragedy

4798We will have to wait months to find out how jurors in Florida will rule in the Trayvon Martin case. Did his accused assailant, George Zimmerman, act in self-defense when he shot the unarmed boy? Or did Zimmerman kill Martin because he just assumed any young black man walking through a gated neighborhood wearing a hoodie is a dangerous criminal?

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3 Secret Service Employees Quit Amid Scandal

4798The Secret Service says three employees are out of the agency in the wake of a prostitution scandal in Colombia.

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Chuck Colson Is Reportedly “Near Death” Two Weeks After Brain Surgery

4798Chuck Colson, an aide to President Richard Nixon who went to jail over the Watergate scandal and later became an evangelical Christian and founder of a prison ministry, was near death on Wednesday at a Northern Virginia hospital, his associate said.

Former Nixon Administration senior staff member and Watergate figure Chuck Colson talks to the press following a roundtable discussion with U.S. President George W. Bush on Prison Fellowship Ministries outside of the White House, June 18, 2003. Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing

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