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After 27 Years on the Run, Escaped Prisoner Busted on Public Urination Charge
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsHe blew his cover with a leak. After being on the lam for 27 years, a convicted robber who escaped from a Florida work-release center in 1983 was arrested by police Jan. 21 when an officer reportedly spotted him urinating in public. In the middle of a five-year prison sentence for robbery, Edward Nathan Jr. walked out of the Tampa Community Correctional Center on Aug. 27, 1983 -- then dropped off the grid entirely, law enforcement officials say, according to News4Jax.com. ...
Did National Journal Break Embargo on State of the Union Speech?
By Andrea Stone - Politics DailyWASHINGTON -- Call it a broken embargo, a leak or a scoop but when the National Journal posted the full text of President Obama's State of the Union speech nearly two hours before he was scheduled to deliver it Tuesday night, the media world noticed. Indeed, for a wonkish compendium revered inside the Washington beltway but hardly noticed out in the heartland, National Journal found itself a red-hot trending topic on Twitter after it posted the text at 7:14 p.m. Eastern. "That's something you usually see Justin Bieber doing. People were genuinely interested," said Taylor West, spokeswoman ...
Aussie Official: Assange Not to Blame for Leaked Cables
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- Australia's foreign minister says it's the United States, not WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, that is responsible for the unauthorized release of thousands of secret diplomatic cables. "Mr. Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the U.S. diplomatic communications network," Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd told Reuters. "The Americans are responsible for that." Rudd served as prime minister of Australia from Dec. 2007 until he was ousted by a revolt within his own Labor party in June of this year. Rudd said the leaked documents ...
First 36 Minutes of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' Leaked Online
By J. Richard - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- Two days to the premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" and executives at Warner Bros. are ticked off. Someone, somewhere, has leaked the first 36 minutes of the highly anticipated wizard thriller onto the website bitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing tool that lets users swap movie-sized files over the Internet, MTV reports. The leaked file is allegedly a segment from the film's screener, a copy of the movie sent to critics and censors before it's released in theaters, AfterDawn reports. Unlike other low-quality film bootlegs leaked online, which are often ...
Judge: Leak by US Official Put Obama's Aunt at Risk
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- The federal immigration judge who granted President Barack Obama's aunt asylum three months ago said in his decision that a federal official anonymously leaked her immigration status to the media, an illegal breach that put her at risk in her native Kenya. U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro granted asylum to Zeituni Onyango in May. His written decision was released through the Freedom of Information Act and was first reported on this week by The Boston Globe. The 29-page ruling cites an Associated Press story from Nov. 1, 2008, that said Onyango was in the United States ...
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Speaks 'Treason' — Fluently
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySome 70 years ago, actor Errol Flynn as Robin Hood responded to the accusation "You speak treason!" with the now-classic retort, "Fluently." We all loved that kind of treason, and maybe you'll learn to love this kind too. You gotta admit Mr. Assange is hot. (Yes, I'm shallow. All you deep people out there, move along.) Julian Assange, whose website WikiLeaks just released 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, hails from Errol Flynn's country of Australia. As does the charismatic Hugh Jackman. Jackman alone makes up for Australia giving us pop crooner Peter Allen (whom ...
WikiLeaks: Just Put Your Lips Together and Whistleblow
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BP Shares React to Preliminary Success on Leak
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON (July 16) --- Shares in BP PLC shot higher and then retreated in London Friday as the market veered between hope and caution over encouraging early signs of progress in stopping the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. BP said it had stopped the leak Thursday night, but that was only the start of up to 48 hours of tests to determine whether the cap will hold. BP shares were up 3.7 percent at 416.55 pence at midday after zooming as much as 8 percent higher in early trading, then retreating at one point to about 410 pence. Still, the oil company's shares were up by more than a third since briefly ...
For Now, Oil Spews Unchecked in Gulf
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (July 11) -- Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil are being allowed to spew into the fouled waters of the Gulf of Mexico while BP engineers prepare to install a new containment system they hope will catch it all in the coming days. There's no guarantee for such a delicate operation nearly a mile below the water's surface, officials said, and the permanent fix of plugging the well from the bottom remains slated for mid-August. "It's not just going to be, you put the cap on, it's done. It's not like putting a cap on a tube of toothpaste," Coast Guard spokesman Capt. James ...
Leaked Report Reveals Dozens of House Members Under Ethics Investigation
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA staffer inadvertently placed a confidential report on a public computer network, revealing that more than 30 members of the House of Representatives are under ethics investigation, the Washington Post reported Friday. The probe, by the secretive House Ethics Committee, also includes congressional aides and focuses on issues like defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling. Such investigations are routine and usually result in a private letter of either reprimand or exoneration.The document revealed that the ethics panel interviewed Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) about a trip he took with ...
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