Tuesday, June 30, 2009

SPB News for Tuesday.


Jackson family 'moves quickly' to assume the singer's children and affairs.

Souter says farewell to court

President Obama to Hold Health Care Town Hall on Wednesday
This Wednesday, July 1, President Barack Obama will hold a national discussion on health care through an online town hall meeting in Annandale, Virginia. In addition to the live audience, questions will come from online communities such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

US soldiers leaving Iraq's cities US troops are withdrawing to base in Iraq, six years after the invasion, handing control of cities and towns to Iraq's new security forces. Tuesday has been declared National Sovereignty Day, a public holiday, and the capital Baghdad threw a giant party on Monday evening. US-led combat operations are due to end by September 2010, with all troops gone from Iraq by the end of 2011.

Justices Rule for White Firefighters in Bias Case The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, in a case with enormous implications for workplaces across the country, that white firefighters in New Haven suffered unfair discrimination because of their race when the city scrapped the results of a promotional exam. "The city’s action in discarding the tests violated Title VII," the court held in a 5-to-4 decision, referring to a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Monday’s decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, No. 07-1428, came on the last day of the court’s term and was one of the most closely watched discrimination cases in years.

2 comments:

markie said...

nothing like a supreme court dominated by fat cat conservatives.

Anonymous said...

US soldier leaving Iraq cities on the timeframe laid out by the Gerbil/Darth regime, now Darth is coming out saying he is worried....but was he worried when the documents for this withdrawl were signed and laid out during his rein?