October 16, 2013 - 3:52am
New Jersey voters go to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new member of the U.S. Senate in a special election pitting Newark Mayor Cory Booker against Steve Lonegan. Democrat Booker is favored in the polls to win the vote to fill the vacancy left by the death of...
October 16, 2013 - 3:35am
Good morning. Can you say lost day? Can you say 24 hours closer to joining the pantheon of deadbeat nations ? Can you say turning on the default spigot of poison gas? ( Warren Buffet can .) That's where the nation is left this morning after the frantic, feckless and...
October 16, 2013 - 3:22am
In the course of any given month, the government collects billions of dollars in taxes, spends billions more, and borrows money to cover the difference between what it collects and what it spends. If Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling very soon, the government won't be able to borrow money...
October 16, 2013 - 3:15am
The issue of migration into Europe has been in the news lately, and now there's a controversy in France after police seized a teenage girl who was on a school field trip and expelled her along with her family to their native Kosovo. The French government says the Dibrani family's...
October 16, 2013 - 2:50am
Police have arrested a baggage handler in connection with a series of dry-ice bombs, two of which exploded harmlessly at the Los Angeles International Airport in recent days. Dicarlo Bennett, 28, an employee for the ground handling company Servisair, was booked on Tuesday for "possession of a destructive device near...
October 16, 2013 - 2:47am
Good morning, here are our early stories: -- Hours Ahead Of Debt Ceiling, Congress Scrambles For A Deal. -- Justices To Hear Cases On Self-Incrimination, Freezing Assets. And here are more early headlines: Iran Uses PowerPoint To Outline Latest Nuclear Plan. ( New York Times ) L.A. Airport Worker Arrested...
October 16, 2013 - 2:35am
Senate leaders expressed optimism about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan agreement Wednesday that would avoid a government default after their House colleagues failed to produce a plan that could pass muster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) were set to pick up the pieces following...
October 16, 2013 - 1:54am
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. Eleanor Catton won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night for her 848-page novel The Luminaries . At 28, Catton is the youngest person to ever win the prize, and the second New Zealander. (Keri Hulme won for...
October 16, 2013 - 1:00am
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases on Wednesday — one that focuses on the right against self-incrimination and another that looks at when prosecutors can seize defendants' assets. What Counts As Self-Incrimination? The first arguments before the court Wednesday come in a murder case that tests...
October 15, 2013 - 11:00pm
As a commentator, Frank Deford gets a lot of suggestions about prominent subjects that he should take to task. Usually, he has already sounded off on these suggested topics, and most of them are cut and dried, with nothing new to add. But here, Deford takes on 12 of these...
